Friday, July 18, 2025

Bookshelf: How Soccer Explains the World (Chapter 4)

 

 

 

 

 



How Soccer Explains the World: An Unlikely Theory of Globalization (Franklin Foer)

Chapter 4: How Soccer Explains the Sentimental Hooligan

Foer profiles Alan Garrison, a Chelsea supporter whose experience mirrors the rise of hooliganism in English soccer in the 1960s and the rise of that violent subculture in the 1990s. Topics addressed are right-wing politics, gentrification, localism, globalization, and social class.

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