mrswdk wrote:Yeah, I was at an Arsenal game recently where the fans around me repeatedly burst into chants of 'we hate Tottenham, we hate Tottenham, we hate Tottenham, we hate Tottenham, Yiddos'. Then they scream at the referee.
It's actually quite a meaningful piece of performance art, I think. A take on modern society and how the politicization of hate is used to manipulate people towards fulfilling the interests of the ruling elite. Quite beautiful, really.
Football has always been a working class thing, whereas rugby or tennis were more for the elite.
Nevertheless, in some countries such as argentina for example, it has always been something about working class and elites. Most argentinian writers and philosophers have very strong discussions about the essence of the game.
In most football countries, football isn't about elites anymore... i see that in my generation. For example in spain, former generations were ALL interested in football, and it s still the case.
In France, for my parent s generation, it was more of a working class thing, but my generation is all about football.
There are still a lot of people who would go like... meh, I hate football but I like rugby and tennis (example: the intellectual communist donelladan)