ABSTRACT
In this chapter I want to look at the development of post-subculture as a concept for understanding recent changes in the nature of football fandom. Especially I want to consider football hooligan fandom and its links to what has been called a ‘new racism’. There is a long tradition of academic work on football hooligan fandom (Ingham 1978; Cohen and Robins 1978; Robins 2011; Dunning, Murphy and Williams 1984, 1988, 1991; Armstrong 1998; Giulianotti 1999; King 2008; Dunning, Murphy and Waddington 2002; Frosdick and Marsh 2005; Stott and Pearson 2007; Sugden 2007; Armstrong and Testa 2010). In order to develop the use of post-subculture to enlighten us about changes in football fandom, I draw on a research project that I directed, archiving football hooligan memoirs in order to improve our ethnographic understanding of fandom in general.
