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re: Your guide to picking a favorite Premier League team
Posted on 7/4/14 at 1:44 am to Dandy Lion
Posted on 7/4/14 at 1:44 am to Dandy Lion
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European ultras use them a lot, or used to, anyway (clubs have cracked down on them).
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Posted on 7/4/14 at 5:26 am to StraightCashHomey21
I remember watching a Champions League game (Seville I think) in 2003 and seeing the Confederate flag for the first time.
At first I thought, Ohh cool someone from the south is at the game, but when I researched it I found out the true reason.
That was an eye opener on perceived old south culture and how we should distance ourselves from it.
At first I thought, Ohh cool someone from the south is at the game, but when I researched it I found out the true reason.
That was an eye opener on perceived old south culture and how we should distance ourselves from it.
Posted on 7/4/14 at 8:55 am to StraightCashHomey21
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European ultras use them a lot, or used to, anyway (clubs have cracked down on them).
The region of Napoli actually has a US Civil War museum (the only one I've ever heard of outside the USA).
Some Southern American general (Wheat, I believe was his name) led a group of American and English volunteers which fought in the Italian Civil War under Garibaldi. According to my memory from the museum, a mixed group of Americans and Italian southern rebels group then followed him to fight for the Confederates in the US Civil War, considering it a common cause.
People in Napoli can still be a lot like American southerners in how emotions run over those past wars and the amount of "rebels" who talk a lot about "the south rising again".
Like all over Europe, there are also punks who just mainly see the flag as "rebellious" and certainly many right wingers who like the racist connotations but there's also a bit more history of it's appropriated symbolism in the area.
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