In May Netflix released The Final:
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Attack on Wembley, a documentary on the violence and racial abuse during the last European Championship, culminating in the final where England lost to Italy on penalties. Fans in the West End as well as around the stadium, high on alcohol and cocaine and rebounding, perhaps, from Covid lockdowns, ran riot, leaving in their wake what Brent Council’s chief executive described as a ‘scene of devastation’, well before the 8 p.m. kick off.
There are also, however, men using art to create work that challenges stereotypes of maleness in football. Last year, Jeremy Deller, Reuben Dangoor and David Rudnick worked with Arsenal to produce eight new pieces of stadium artwork. The project focuses on community, belonging and support, and features the women’s team as well as the men. Grayson Perry, whose work has often albania phone data questioned what it means to be English and male, spoke to football fans for his documentary series Full English last year. ‘It’s important to me that my version of England is seen as being English,’ one fan says (it’s something that I think too, though often forget). He has a version of the St George’s flag with the name Jimmy on it, to commemorate a close friend he had met at a football match years earlier, and he swaps other flags with fans from other countries as souvenirs of his travels.
Perry observes that he’s been talking about a more progressive version of English patriotism and is surprised to find it, in all places, in football. ‘You say modern England but to me, this is the only England,’ the fan says.
Corbin Shaw’s work draws on the history of flag-waving and textiles in football. Now based in East London, he was born and grew up in a South Yorkshire ex-mining town. He began making flags after the death by suicide of his father’s longtime friend and companion on the terraces. The first one was a parody of a Sheffield United banner that instead of ‘we hate Wednesday’ said ‘we should talk about our feelings.’ He’s made versions of the St George’s Cross with slogans like ‘I’m never going to be one of the lads,’ ‘God save the queers’ and ‘Soften up hard lad.’ Shaw collaborated with Women’s Aid during the 2022 World Cup to highlight the rise of domestic abuse during football tournaments.
There are also, however, men using art to create work that challenges stereotypes of maleness in football. Last year, Jeremy Deller, Reuben Dangoor and David Rudnick worked with Arsenal to produce eight new pieces of stadium artwork. The project focuses on community, belonging and support, and features the women’s team as well as the men. Grayson Perry, whose work has often albania phone data questioned what it means to be English and male, spoke to football fans for his documentary series Full English last year. ‘It’s important to me that my version of England is seen as being English,’ one fan says (it’s something that I think too, though often forget). He has a version of the St George’s flag with the name Jimmy on it, to commemorate a close friend he had met at a football match years earlier, and he swaps other flags with fans from other countries as souvenirs of his travels.
Perry observes that he’s been talking about a more progressive version of English patriotism and is surprised to find it, in all places, in football. ‘You say modern England but to me, this is the only England,’ the fan says.
Corbin Shaw’s work draws on the history of flag-waving and textiles in football. Now based in East London, he was born and grew up in a South Yorkshire ex-mining town. He began making flags after the death by suicide of his father’s longtime friend and companion on the terraces. The first one was a parody of a Sheffield United banner that instead of ‘we hate Wednesday’ said ‘we should talk about our feelings.’ He’s made versions of the St George’s Cross with slogans like ‘I’m never going to be one of the lads,’ ‘God save the queers’ and ‘Soften up hard lad.’ Shaw collaborated with Women’s Aid during the 2022 World Cup to highlight the rise of domestic abuse during football tournaments.