Sunday, April 26, 2009
How Soccer Explains The Sentimental Hooligan
In this chapter of How Soccer Explains the World, Foer explains the rising of Hooliganism and it's downfall. Throughout the chapter Foer explains his interview with a man by the name of Alan Garrison and he tells about his life as a soccer hooligan and the leader of one of the English organized crews of soccer hooliganism. Throughout the interview Alan tells about his childhood and how he came to like an English soccer club know as Chelsea, and then how he came to be a hooligan for that club. he explains his battles, brusises and then how the hooliganism or at least the original hooliganism started to decrease. Alan started to explain how big corporations who invested in the soccer teams started influencing on who went to the games from rebellious young men to young men and women with office jobs and the average worker. In the end Alan discussed how hooliganism then started to become organized and the hooligans would run if they had organized a beating against a rivals's club fans and saw the cops around. He explained how his pride in hooliganism of Chelsea had died along with the globalization of these big corporations such as McDonald's.
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