In which a veteran American sportswriter emigrates to London and becomes a supporter of Portsmouth Football Club, despite it being miles away on the south coast and his knowing next to nothing about the sport. His tongue-in-cheek, self-depreciating style is usually quite effective, and he is quite a wit, as he describes the differences in American and British fan culture and indeed society in general together with a conventional season diary.. The book's readability is very high except for a couple of chapters narrated in some sort of tense or voice which doubtless has a name which I would know if I had been better educated, but in which every sentence begins with "What if" or some other formulation which reads, clunkily, as if he's making up a yarn about something which might happen or have happened. But the book made me laugh as well as raising many a serious point and is well worth a reader's time. ( )