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The Quadrennial Global Round-Ball Extravaganza
Spluff:
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KharBevNor:
Yeah I will admit it was pretty cool how the match sounded like a Lustmord album.
Also I saw a car sticker in a shop today, which had an outline of Africa with an England flag inside it and the strapline 'Football's Coming Home', which would seem even to the footy lover, I hope, slightly unfortunate given the history of the British Empire.
Alex C:
--- Quote from: look out! Ninjas! on 12 Jun 2010, 22:24 ---It's less fascism and more nationalism.
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Fascism is basically nationalism taken to the most mindless extreme. There are sports fans out there for whom the comparison is pretty apt, unfortunately. All the alcohol flying around doesn't help either, but ultimately you shouldn't care enough about the outcome of a game that you need to be pepper sprayed to stop fighting with other fans whether you're drunk or not.
amok:
While this is true, it's (hopefully, anyway) going to be less relevant at the World Cup. The worst hooliganism generally involves gangs, essentially, who use football as an excuse to kick off rather than doing so purely as a result of their team losing. Far more common in league football between ultras etc. from different regions of the same country.
Not that I'm suggesting for a minute that there has never been any trouble as a result of a football team losing a match, which is pathetic, but terms like 'fascism' tend to get somewhat devalued by being tossed around in situations where it's either an exaggeration or doesn't tell the whole story.
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