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CULTURES OF MEMORY IN FOOTBALL FANZINES A CONTE...

The increasing insecurity in the English society is countered by a resurgence of nostalgia and
remembering the old times. This phenomenon can be found in football  too  but it differs from
the need for nostalgia that is visible in society. High Street shops like Past Times are hugely
successful in selling commodities that remember the English Commonwealth with goods from the
countries that once belonged to it. Also  this becomes visible by the many replica items of
daily life that are designed in a retro style but contain modern technology such as radios 
watches  alarm clocks and furniture. Football fans can purchase replica shirts of their
favourite club from the seventies and even earlier. In the field of football  the introduction
of the Premier League in England has changed the face of football massively. After the Heysel
and Hillsborough disasters football fans got active themselves and started to publish football
fanzines. In these outlets they mostly opposed the view that every football fan is a hooligan.
They also used football fanzines as a platform to remember their heroes and glories of eras
long gone. For this reason cultures of memory did become a part of football fanzines and did so
very vivid.

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