I’d still say non-American football still takes the cake for the most reactionary fanbase, possibly just due to the sheer mass appeal that it has. Like it’s shockingly normalized to be racist/sexist and chuddy. Every year theres some controversy about players being heckled with the N word or other slurs, and it dies out in the headlines in a few days, while the actual issue persists. Any news or discussion about women’s soccer is immediately ridiculed and mocked, and theres just endless amounts of toxicity which is at this point just baked into soccer fan culture as well.
Over the last couple of years with the Saudi league making news, rather than the logical reaction of criticizing the oil billions that make it possible, I saw way more football fans just resort to anti Arab/Muslim racism, even disappointingly from non-western fans, that’s where soccer is currently.
I wanted to add something. It is true that the soccer fanbase is a vast ocean of irredeemable chuds. But there is a small clubs whose histories are rooted in left wing thought of some variety. Liverpool for example as an area is Labour leaning because they hate Thatcher and her austerity. Celtics are republicans and hate the Queen. These elements are unfortunately being watered down slowly as football has become corporate and Europe becomes more reactionary but it’s something that was there.
The only thing similar I can think of when it comes to American sports is that the Green Bay Packers have an interesting ownership structure. Apart from that I haven’t heard of anything like that.
I’d still say non-American football still takes the cake for the most reactionary fanbase, possibly just due to the sheer mass appeal that it has. Like it’s shockingly normalized to be racist/sexist and chuddy. Every year theres some controversy about players being heckled with the N word or other slurs, and it dies out in the headlines in a few days, while the actual issue persists. Any news or discussion about women’s soccer is immediately ridiculed and mocked, and theres just endless amounts of toxicity which is at this point just baked into soccer fan culture as well.
Over the last couple of years with the Saudi league making news, rather than the logical reaction of criticizing the oil billions that make it possible, I saw way more football fans just resort to anti Arab/Muslim racism, even disappointingly from non-western fans, that’s where soccer is currently.
Yeah you are right. There are a lot of aspects of this:
So yeah its possible that what I said about concussionmania is not relevant.
I wanted to add something. It is true that the soccer fanbase is a vast ocean of irredeemable chuds. But there is a small clubs whose histories are rooted in left wing thought of some variety. Liverpool for example as an area is Labour leaning because they hate Thatcher and her austerity. Celtics are republicans and hate the Queen. These elements are unfortunately being watered down slowly as football has become corporate and Europe becomes more reactionary but it’s something that was there.
The only thing similar I can think of when it comes to American sports is that the Green Bay Packers have an interesting ownership structure. Apart from that I haven’t heard of anything like that.