Post-fandom and the millennial blues - Steve Redhead

Soccer fandom has traditionally been seen as an
important part of adolescent, generally male, identity making. In Post-Fandom and the Millennial Blues , Steve Redhead shows how this tradition of youth culture of fandom has been
eroded in the last years of the twentieth century by the more fleeting, style conscious allegiances inspired by television, films and music. The clubs that young people follow are
determined by advertising and popular music; the games that
they watch are brought to them by the globalized culture of
television, as in the world cup staged in America; even their fears of so-called soccer hooliganism are determined by media-engendered moral panics at a time when the phenomenon itself seems to be dying away.