1. "After that game, it seemed that things were finally possible, not just for Arsenal but also for me". So wrote Nick Hornby in Fever Pitch of which decisive victory over Tottenham?

   1. 1988 First Division, 10 September

   2. 1987 League Cup Semi Final, 4 March

   3. 1983 First Division, 4 April

   4. 1985 First Division, 1 January

2. Which Scottish team does heroin addict Renton support in Trainspotting?

   1. Heart of Midlothian

   2. Hibernian

   3. Celtic

   4. Rangers

3. Which writer wrote the following about time spent playing football in England: "As with folded arms I leant my back against the left goalpost, I enjoyed the luxury of closing my eyes, and thus I would listen to my heart knocking and feel the blind drizzle on my face and hear, in the distance, the broken sounds of the game, and think of myself as of a fabulous exotic being in an English footballer’s disguise, composing verse in a tongue nobody understood about a remote country nobody knew. Small wonder I was not very popular with my team-mates.”

   1. Jean-Paul Sartre

   2. Vladimir Nabokov

   3. Milan Kundera

   4. Eric Cantona

4. Who said this about his time playing football: "After many years during which I saw many things, what I know most surely about morality and the duty of man I owe to sport and learned it in the RUA [Racing Universitaire Algerios, where he played for the junior team]"?

   1. Albert Camus

   2. Andre Maurois

   3. Louis Althusser

   4. Jacques Derrida

5. Which quote is taken from Shakespeare’s Comedy of Errors?

   1. ”Am I so round with you as you with me, that like a football you do spurn me thus?”

   2. "Neither a borrower nor a lender be; for loan oft loses both itself and friend, and borrowing dulls the edge of good club finances"

   3. “You base football player"

   4. “Go, play, boy, play: thy mother plays midfield, and I play too"

6. The Damned Utd portrays Brian Clough’s 44-day tenure at which English club?

   1. Leeds United

   2. Nottingham Forest

   3. Derby

   4. Hartlepool

7. For whom did Arthur Conan Doyle play football in the late 1880s?

   1. London

   2. Bexhill

   3. Bournemouth

   4. Portsmouth

8. Freddy Kano, the young footballer in John Lanchester’s novel Capital, comes from which African country (which did not qualify for this year's World Cup)?

   1. Senegal

   2. South Africa

   3. Tunisia

   4. Egypt

9. Which of Maradona’s teammates has also written for the Guardian?

   1. Zico

   2. Peter Shilton

   3. Jorge Valdano

   4. Oscar Ruggeri

10. What was the name of the hooligan group that Bill Buford joined in his book Among the Thugs?

    1. Cockney Firestarters

    2. Walford Wanderers

    3. Inter-City Jibbers

    4. Green Street Elite

Solutions

1:B, 2:B, 3:B, 4:A, 5:A, 6:A, 7:D, 8:A, 9:C, 10:C

Scores

1. 2 and above.

   You do not qualify. You look down on sport, but sport looks down on you

2. 4 and above.

   A far from Classic display. More reading needed, and probably more exercise

3. 6 and above.

   Narrow defeat. You've made some nice moves, but your defence is all holes

4. 8 and above.

   Goooooal! Truly silky skills. We tip you for the library cup