1.   Expectation had been rampant throughout June but, come the pre-season friendlies of August, football fever had reached dizzy heights.

2.   Football fever got to us and Brian fashioned a small ball out of an old pair of underpants and a defunct blindfold.

3.   Football fever has always been widespread in Thailand, but this year perhaps more than ever before.

4.   Soap bosses pulled out all the stops so football fever could infect Albert Square.

5.   TV BOSSES are planning to set Ireland alight with World Cup football fever.

6.   And this was a school with football fever.

7.   Caught up in the football fever, Dole has joined the scrimmage with his own athletic bravado.

8.   Football fever is inescapable, even at the Comdex computer show, that hyper-geeky bastion of high-tech.

9.   The student body has also caught football fever.

10.   With Tucson in the grip of football fever, something like this was bound to happen.