Fever Pitch (1997)

A romantic comedy about a man, a woman and a football team. Based on Nick Hornby's best-selling autobiographical novel, Fever Pitch, concentrating on Arsenal's First Division championship-winning season in 1988-89 and its effect on the protagonist's romantic relationship. Colin Firth played Paul Ashworth, the character based on Hornby, a teacher at a school in North London, and his burgeoning romance with Sarah Hughes, a new teacher who joins Ashworth's school.
Sarah doesn't like or care about soccer and Paul cares about little less. Somehow, against all odds, they fall for each other. Paul coaches the school soccer team. He lives a simple life and he has his Arsenal season tickets for twenty-one years, so Paul's pretty happy. Sarah starts to follow the Arsenol as their relationship develops.
Arsenal vs. West Ham, Arsenal vs. Newcastle. Crowds chanting. People screaming. There's really nothing quite like it, and Sarah really can't get used to it. The some fans are crushed at the game and killed and Sarah can't understand how Paul can go back.
But Arsenal is the escape from reality that Paul needs and wants. When Paul finds out Sarah is pregnant they get together again. Paul wants to name the baby Liam, after the best Arsenal player ever. When Arsenal loses at home to Derby he is sick, but Sarah is more concerned about how his job interview went, but Paul could care less about that.
Sarah Hughes: "Paul, it's only a game!"
Paul Ashworth: "DON'T SAY THAT! Please! That is the worst, most stupid thing anyone could say! Cause it quite clearly isn't "only a game." I mean if it was do you honestly think I'd care this much? Eh? Eighteen years! Eight-teen years! Do you know what you wanted eighteen years ago? Or ten? Or five? Did you want to be Head of Year at North London Comprehensive, I doubt it. I'd doubt if you wanted anything for that long. And if you had, and if you'd spent three months thinking that finally, FINALLY you were gonna get it and just when you think it's there it's taken away from you... I mean I don't care what it is, a car, a job, an Oscar, the baby... then you'd understand how I was feeling tonight. But there isn't, and you don't, so..."
Paul and Sarah go their separate ways and then the game comes. Arsenal's title match game against Liverpool in the final game of the season on May 26, 1989. The have to win at least 2 - 0 to secure the title. Paul has a hard time watching on TV but Arsenal pulls it out.
Arsenal pulls out and Sarah and Paul get back together.