How do sports fans end up as aggressive defenders of a nation state’s regime? | Sean Ingle

The Manchester City case is one example of how fandom has warped beyond previous boundaries in online spaces A video of Liam Gallagher playing in a 1996 charity football match resurfaced on social media recently. Dressed in Manchester City blue and a bucket hat, in truth he…

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