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Hammers Unite! Lessons on Fan Involvement from East London
Season 1 Episode 9
Since moving from its century-long home to the former London Olympic Stadium just 3 miles away in 2016, West Ham United have undergone a severe identity crisis that can not be papered over even by su…
Published on 2 years, 8 months ago
The Match That Started a War? Dinamo Zagreb and the Conflicts of Croatian Nationalism
Season 1 Episode 8
In front of the Stadium Maksimir, home to the World Cup's 3rd place finisher, Croatia, and to its biggest club, Dinamo Zagreb, a large memorial put up by Dinamo's fan group Bad Blue Boys is dedicated…
Published on 2 years, 9 months ago
Nordic Cool? Stockholm’s 3 Heated Soccer Rivalries
Season 1 Episode 7
A different kind of city sightseeing, through the lens of AIK, Djurgarden and Hammarby. Viktor Asp, Stockholm-based soccer journalist and cultural observer maps his city's landscape along the lines o…
Published on 2 years, 9 months ago
Soccer vs. the State: Radical Politics and the Beautiful Game
Season 1 Episode 6
A world traveller, author, philosopher and former semi-professional soccer goalie in Austria, Gabriel Kuhn has written extensively on sports, politics, anarchism, socialism and punk. His book on socc…
Published on 2 years, 10 months ago
Support your Local Team: Terraces, Towns & Tunes of Germany’s 2nd Bundesliga
Season 1 Episode 5
If you want to shake off all that syrupy World Cup coverage, join us for a free flowing conversation with Eva-Lotta Bohle, who follows quintessential 2nd league club Arminia Bielefeld - home and away…
Published on 2 years, 10 months ago
Ukraine through the Lens of Soccer: Kateryna Chernii in Conversation
Season 1 Episode 4
A historian’s and fan’s view on how soccer is not just affected by politics, but has foreshadowed, accelerated and even influenced the political and cultural transformations in independent Ukraine si…
Published on 2 years, 11 months ago
Boycott Qatar? A View from Germany
Season 1 Episode 3
In this one - and only - World Cup-based episode, Stefan Schirmer, co-founder of the fan-run German initiative boycott-qatar and fan of Mainz 05 explains why the resistance to this year’s cup is so o…
Published on 2 years, 11 months ago
The Manchester United Protests, and the Super League Crisis, One Year On - with Matt Ford
Season 1 Episode 1
For this first episode, I am talking to Matt Ford. Matt is from Manchester, an active United supporter, longtime critical fan journalist, and a professional football journalist by day as well, for th…
Published on 2 years, 11 months ago
Soccer Against Fascism: A Guided Tour through Europe with Chris Lee
Season 1 Episode 2
Today, I am talking to Chris Lee about the role that football and particularly football fans have played, and are playing in the fight against fascism on and off the field. Chris is from England, and…
Published on 2 years, 11 months ago