This was about the point where I realized that no matter how much fun Nick Hornby's writing might seem, I was mostly just wasting time by continuing to read all his books. The main thing, I remember from reading this, at this point was: 
 1. totally readable with zero effort 
 2. totally sentimental 
 3. one really good line that went something like "as if, like Daleks, our problems had been unable to climb the stairs"