Fever Pitch 1989, a Michael Thomas goal giving Arsenal the 0–2 win they needed to win the title. "Fever Pitch" compares Hornby's life at Arsenal and other football clubs. A 2005 film remake of "Fever Pitch", directed by the Farrelly Brothers with Hornby as an executive producer, starred Jimmy Fallon and Drew Barrymore. In this adaptation (based on the 1997 film, not the 1992 book), the action is moved from London to Boston, the focus of the protagonist's obsession is shifted from football to baseball and the story is based on the 2004 Boston Red Sox season, which culminated with the team's
Fever Pitch (comics) Gene Nation to free the members of Generation X. In the ensuing fight, X-Man siphons off Fever Pitch's energy, seemingly killing him. However he resurfaced in "Uncanny X-Men" #402 in Berlin. The criminal is fighting Abyss to try to capture him and sell him to researchers who wanted to dissect him. The battle is interrupted by Avalanche, Blob, and Surge of the X-Corps, a paramilitary facility run by the former X-Men Banshee's. This group takes the two men prisoner. Once inside Banshee's facility, Fever Pitch is mind-controlled by the imprisoned Martinique Jason into serving the X-Corps...or so it seems. When