The battle between ‘true fans’ and ‘plastics’ weakens the ties between supporters and their inclination to unite and organise
The support for Son Heung-min at Tottenham shows how overseas fans enrich and deepen the meaning of a football club.The support for Son Heung-min at Tottenham shows how overseas fans enrich and deepen the meaning of a football club.eaving early is a bit of a red flag. Booing your own players, obviously. Wearing a half-and-half scarf, purchasing a half-and-half scarf, expressing any opinion of a half-and-half scarf short of pathological hatred: forget it. Fake merch.
And of course there was a clear hierarchy of devotion here, based around geographical proximity and physical attendance at matches. But the globalisation of the biggest clubs – allied with the increasing influence of social media – has upended traditional measures. For the modern super-club, the vast majority of their fans now live somewhere else, tethered to them only by an internet connection, unlikely ever to visit the stadium more than a few times.
But of course there are also compromises to be made, cultural divides to be conquered, frictions to negotiate, frictions often played out on forums and social media. Take the “Cobhamsexual” divide, a notable schism that has opened up in recent years between local-based Chelsea fans and foreign-based Chelsea fans on the subject of the academy.
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