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I believe that many American right-wingers hate soccer simply because American left-wingers (pretend to) like it so much, and because they understand the reason for that: The lefties like soccer because they know that Europeans love soccer, and they want to demonstrate their love for socialist Europe by displaying an affection for soccer.

The funny part is that in Europe, it is the other way around! Most left-wingers hate soccer. Soccer, and the soccer culture, is seen as a brutal, violent, and right-wing thing. And there is some truth to this: Most European soccer fans are working-class males. The athmosphere in the stadiums is very loud, sometimes very aggressive, very male. Nasty chants, sometimes nationalist, sometimes even racist, shaved heads…this is not an environment where some metrosexual urban liberal would feel at home. Or welcome.

Perhaps somebody ought to give them a couple of free tickets ;-) Or a copy of Bill Buford’s book:

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The funny part is that in Europe, it is the other way around! Most left-wingers hate soccer. Soccer, and the soccer culture, is seen as a brutal, violent, and right-wing thing.

Maybe. But there are always those t-shirt guys.

You see ads for stuff like this in left-wing British magazines.