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Supporters: Figures of Conformism and Dissidence
João Sedas Nunes

In this article, the sociologist João Sedas Nunes, professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities of the University of Lisbon, focuses on a new category of football supporters, whom he calls ‘post-supporters’, who make use of the principles of irony and critical detachment. For this reason, they no longer fit into the old model, where passion, and even fanaticism, for a club ruled.