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THE STORY OF football, fan power and political extremism is told in a powerful new podcast series for The 42.
Enda Coll’s On The Right Wing shines a light on the secretive and shadowy world of ultras and examines the power they wield.
The podcast, available to subscribers to The 42, examines the politicians and figureheads who have harnessed the visceral appeal of football and used it for their own ends.
In a series which charts the most voluble and volatile supporters over a span of decades, and from South America to Europe, Coll hears from experts who have devoted their professional lives to understanding and telling these extraordinary stories.
In the first episode of the series, Tim Vickery, the BBC’s South American football correspondent, and Brazil football correspondent for Reuters Andrew Downie talk about Brazil’s shift to the political right.
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They explain how Jair Bolsonaro used football as a vehicle for his message, why some of the country’s famous football stars backed the former military leader and how the famous yellow short was hijacked by his supporters during the 2022 election.
The link between football fan groups in Germany and far-right extremists in the country is the focus of the second episode.
Author Robert Claus who specialises in far-right extremism and football looks at how the football culture evolved in the country from hooligans in 1980s to the ultra movement fighting back to take control of the stands.
The third episode of the series turns to Italy and the birth of the ultra movement. Coll delves into the fascist history of Italian football, and the impact their past continues to have in the stands of modern-day Italian football. Paddy Agnew, news and football reporter in Italy, and Simon Martin, author of Football and Fascism, the national game under Mussolini, provide insights throughout.
Coll looks at the central role football hooligans played in the setting up of the far-right group The English Defence League in episode four. Matt Slater, senior football reporter with the Athletic, explains how the authorities feared a return to the bad days of the 1980s when fan unrest spiked in the post-Covid world.
The final episode of the series is an illuminating interview with award-winning author James Montague. They discuss his time spent living in the world of ultra fan groups, what he learned from the experience and why some football fan groups are attracted to extremist ideology.
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Cool. I know what I’ll be watching tonight.
All thanks to the communist principles of Kim Jung Un …… Maybe socialism aint so bad !
The journal is now an advertising platform of torrents.eu
Those pesky North Koreans trying to destroy the world one torrent at a time! Oh the humanity
All available on showbox..Thats me sorted for the week..
Check out movie 25
This is a job for Team America and Gary Johnston’s fantastic acting skills.
Unless there is a North Korean working at Sony Studios. These are more than likely advanced screener videos for critics and award purposes that have been leaked out by staff themselves and found their way into the wrong hands.
Screener season is January. Love January.
This has publicity stunt written all over it. “Let’s release 4 rubbish films and blame it on a hack from the country our possibly good film is about. That will stir up free advertising”. And it has, reading this and other articles.
Fury is a class film anto oscar material
Apart from Annie they’re all films with legit Oscar intentions. Mr Turner played in the Cannes film festival and Timothy Spall will likely get a nominations for Best Actor.
Someone in Sony will be in deep Sh#t! 5 movies lost to torrents! Cyber Monday eat your heart out!
Good movies, but I haven’t watched em yet sure that’s illegal ;)
It’s actually not (unless they’ve changed the law in the last two years), I checked with INFACT who are in charge of copyright infringement in late 2011.
It’s illegal to download audio (music), however it’s not illegal to download video as long as you don’t distribute it (seed torrents, sharing, burning disks etc).
Personal use is totally legitimate as long as no distribution occurs.
Maybe someone in the journal could verify this with INFACT.
I seed man , actually I don’t that’s against the law ;)
The day is coming where all entertainment will have to be released globally at the same time, people don’t wanna wait for months to see a movie which is spoilt by people on social media giving away the fecking start middle and ending !!!
The ship hits an iceberg and sinks… Oh and jack drowns.
Shame it wasn’t Interstellar. I can’t wait to see that flick
On your own there
Go see it so? It’s on in every cinema in the country.
Actually don’t bother it’s crap
Yeah it’s not great. Fury is one of the best films I’ve seen in a while and worth the price of admission. Worth seeing in the cinema for the better sound.
I live in a foreign country with lovely, but foreign, words
Are they taking requests?
These include unreleased titles “Annie,” “Mr. Turner,” “Still Alice,” and “To Write Love On Her Arms,” as well as World War II drama “Fury.”
Praise the Lord for showbox
Jaysis Fury was woeful,couldn’t be more ridiculous,Saving Private Ryan meets Rambo,Still Alice is very good though,so one of the cast tells me….
It’s a good film let down by its over the top unrealistic ending
The ending did wreck it a bit
It started well and I was enjoying it but descended into farce,for me if the last half hour of a film is a joke you’ve just wasted your time
I recommend Fury and I’m looking forward to American Sniper.
Fury is a great show. Thanks.
Too bad it wasn’t Foxcatcher or Whiplash leaked instead. Can’t wait to see both
Want to see American sniper next, anybody know if I can locate it online yet?
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