Arsenal v. Stoke City

"What are you thinking about?" she asks.
At this point I lie. I wasn't thinking about Martine Amis or Gerard Depardieu or the Labour Party at all. But then, obsessives have no choice; they have to lie on occasions like this. If we told the truth every time, then we would be unable to maintain relationships with anyone from the real world. We would be left to rot with our Arsenal programmes or our collection of original blue-label Stax records or our King Charles spaniels, and our two-minute daydreams would become longer and longer until we lost our jobs and stopped bathing and shaving and eating, and we would lie on the floor in our own filth rewinding the video again and again in an attempt to memorise by heart the whole of the commentary, including David Pleat's expert analysis, for the night of 26th of May 1989. (you think I had to look the date up? Ha!). The truth is this: for alarmingly large chunks of an average day, I am a moron.
(Nick Hornby - Fever Pitch)

Don't know why, but I somehow know what he's talking about...