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FANATICS! Power, identity and fandom in football

This collection was first conceived of at a conference organised by Adam Brown to coincide with the Euro 96 European Football Championships in England in 1996. The conference, ‘Fanatics! Football and Popular Culture in Europe’, was held at the Manchester Institute for Popular Culture, Manchester Metropolitan University from 11–13 June 1996 and involved leading football academics from around the world. Whilst naturally much of the attention at the time was focused on the championships, the ‘on-field play’ at the conference put football fans centre stage, with over forty papers looking at the modern game. Selecting the most appropriate of these to be revised and included in this collection was not. | Fanatics power identity fandom in football Edited by Adam Brown ROUTLEDGE Also available as a printed book see title verso for ISBN details FANATICS Football has never been more popular and the rapidly-changing cultures of its supporters take an ever greater variety of forms from the populist New Lad culture reflected in Three Lions and Fantasy Football to the carnivalesque celebrations of Scotland s Tartan Army and the highly politicised Italian ultràs. Embracing fandom across Europe Fanatics tackles questions of power and of national regional and racial identities in football. Despite football s popularity the contributors question whether football remains the people s game or if it is now run entirely by and for the Grey Suits club owners and directors who have overseen the flotation of clubs on the stock exchange and who have prioritised commercialism over participation. They ask what space is left for the fans as they struggle to democratise football and they also consider the role of FIFA and UEFA in the struggle for control of the world game. Fanatics traces the cultures of racism and extreme nationalism in football from the English media s xenophobic coverage of Euro 96 to the demonisation of Eric Cantona and anti-Asian racism in Scotland. Contributions move from the Fast Painters of the Danish game to the volatile curva in Italy to the Irish football diaspora who travel the globe following the green shirts of Eire. They go on to discuss media representations of national identity in sports coverage and also consider the interplay of national religious and club identities among fans in England Scotland Ireland Portugal Italy and Scandinavia. Finally the contributors examine the increasing role of the law in regulating football and particularly its fans and consider the future for supporters at a time when watching the match is more likely to mean turning on the television than going to a football ground. Adam Brown is a Research Fellow at the Manchester .