He persisted in his belief that the fans "get pleasure just because of the fact of you playing hard and trying," as he put it.
Even for fans, the pleasure is unsettling.
For everyone else, there's "Dearie," the biography by Bob Spitz, new on the hardcover nonfiction list at No. 6. Spitz has previously written about the Beatles and Bob Dylan, and he evinces the music fan's pleasure in arcana and turning up picayune personal quirks and peccadilloes.
Even so, between the insidious syncopation of the song's "la la la" refrain and the playfully provocative glances Ms. Minogue gives the camera, the video, like the single itself, is completely captivating, because it appeals directly to the pop fan's pleasure centers.
The fan's pleasure, after a particularly good exchange of shots, stems from redrawing those lines as a memory, every point, like every creative mark on a page with a pencil, being slightly different.
It strikes me as both bizarre and sad that these millionaires will be depriving fans of the pleasure of the sport simply for a few dollars more.
If the team loses too often, fans get the pleasure of humiliating the coach with chants that reverberate through the stadium.
Every week, Carpi were featured on Rai TV's iconic football show, Domenica Sportiva, while fans had the pleasure of placing their beloved city on their Schedina (betting slip).
It has been my view for some time that our fans deserved the pleasure of thinking about one great thing instead of forever being offered a whole lot of great things up the line.
In fact, all the stopping, restarting, swearing and routine self-deprecation ("I'm in trouble with the vicar – eternal trouble," quips Martin) is the kind of carry-on that has fans purring with pleasure, especially those fans whose next date with the band is as distant ciphers at the Emirates Stadium.
