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Thinking about the furore over banning Macabi fans from Villa and the recent cancellation of the TelAviv derby between Macabi which attracts right wing fans and Hapoel which attracts left wing fans. Does England have any clubs that have a recognised left wing following - i.e. in the style of St Pauli? I think of us a genuinely integrated, community focussed club but apolitical.
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Left wing/Right wing English clubs on 09:30 - Oct 21 with 3746 views
Dulwich Hamlet are the most 'left wing' style club. Deliberately inclusive for any and all groups. I have friends that like to go specifically with their partners or family for that reason.
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Left wing/Right wing English clubs on 09:38 - Oct 21 with 3682 views
I know Clapton Community FC is 'left wing', more overtly so like St Pauli. Dulwich Hamlet are sort of left wing, but I'd say they're a bit more 'hipster', more focused on nice beer and food, less so on politics.
In the football league there aren't any left wing clubs in the style of St Pauli, but when I do think of 'left wing' clubs, Everton and Sunderland come to mind.
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Left wing/Right wing English clubs on 09:44 - Oct 21 with 3637 views
Left wing/Right wing English clubs on 09:33 - Oct 21 by simmo
Dulwich Hamlet are the most 'left wing' style club. Deliberately inclusive for any and all groups. I have friends that like to go specifically with their partners or family for that reason.
Clapton Community (if I've got the club name correct) appear to carry that tag as well. The two clubs are often named with bringing politics into football by some posters on the Non-League Forum.
Interestingly, both clubs have far bigger crowds than what Hamlet had after the 1940's & the old Clapton FC had.
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Left wing/Right wing English clubs on 10:04 - Oct 21 with 3559 views
Left wing/Right wing English clubs on 09:33 - Oct 21 by simmo
Dulwich Hamlet are the most 'left wing' style club. Deliberately inclusive for any and all groups. I have friends that like to go specifically with their partners or family for that reason.
Rod Liddle claimed he saw this graffito on their wall “Millwall run from Crystal Palace whom, in their turn, run from Dulwich Hamlet” He may have made that up.
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Left wing/Right wing English clubs on 10:05 - Oct 21 with 3557 views
Left wing/Right wing English clubs on 09:33 - Oct 21 by simmo
Dulwich Hamlet are the most 'left wing' style club. Deliberately inclusive for any and all groups. I have friends that like to go specifically with their partners or family for that reason.
Champagne socialists😁
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Left wing/Right wing English clubs on 10:51 - Oct 21 with 3320 views
Left wing/Right wing English clubs on 10:05 - Oct 21 by James_Paddocks
Liverpool are probably the most left wing club.
Millwall definitely have that BNP/NF vibe festering away.
Might be controversial but I think every club has a right wing element, usually found following England away.
Have you just called all England fans right wing !!!?? Whats your name Gary nevile. Thisnia the problem everyone likes an echo chamber somewhere or someone that justify their own views. Humans like to try and take the moral high ground when then just usually just become self righteous. People genealogy just a place where they feel part of something like a football club and that's what's its generally about a feeling of belonging, of being part of something. In this world where people are given so little to hang on to dont taint an already tainted game with the ills of the government and the corruption that goes with it.The best way to.keep the insidious stench of politics out of football is stop going on about it. Suppose I will get painted in some colour or ilk for this !! It just football let people enjoy it, there are enough divisions in society. In my humble opinion
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Left wing/Right wing English clubs on 10:56 - Oct 21 with 3274 views
Left wing/Right wing English clubs on 10:53 - Oct 21 by captainmycaptian
Have you just called all England fans right wing !!!?? Whats your name Gary nevile. Thisnia the problem everyone likes an echo chamber somewhere or someone that justify their own views. Humans like to try and take the moral high ground when then just usually just become self righteous. People genealogy just a place where they feel part of something like a football club and that's what's its generally about a feeling of belonging, of being part of something. In this world where people are given so little to hang on to dont taint an already tainted game with the ills of the government and the corruption that goes with it.The best way to.keep the insidious stench of politics out of football is stop going on about it. Suppose I will get painted in some colour or ilk for this !! It just football let people enjoy it, there are enough divisions in society. In my humble opinion
It doesn’t sound humble.
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Left wing/Right wing English clubs on 11:11 - Oct 21 with 3150 views
I did find this graph of political leaning against social standing for a selection of clubs round the world. God knows whether there is any research behind it! But, Chelsea just about the most socially elite and right wing club in the world, apparently.
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Left wing/Right wing English clubs on 11:18 - Oct 21 with 3121 views
I don't think the term left wing has the same meaning as of old. It used to be economic left wing. I doubt if the likes of Nye Bevan would espouse some things left wingers hold dear now. Not coming down on one side or t'other, just a comment.
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Left wing/Right wing English clubs on 12:42 - Oct 21 with 2860 views
Left wing/Right wing English clubs on 10:38 - Oct 21 by nadera78
All of you are saying 'left wing' when what you mean is 'liberal or progressive'. There are no left wing football clubs in this country.
Agree, hence why I put left wing in quote marks - it was more in response to the OP question.
I also agree that part of the reason I go to football is to stay away from politics and other issues that seem to be forced down our throats elsewhere. I noticed recent chants against Starmer have come through at QPR and England games recently, which regardless of allegiance or opinion I'd rather wasn't in the terrace repotoire...
I tend to think that supporting a club like QPR allows us to be a collective regardless of any opinions, beliefs, heritage, race, etc. I know for a fact I have opposite opinions to lots of people I see regularly, but I couldn't care less on match days because we are all QPR and that's all I want to focus on.
ask Beavis I get nothing Butthead
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Left wing/Right wing English clubs on 12:43 - Oct 21 with 2852 views
In that, whilst football fans are political in England, they aren't Political in the way they are in the rest of the world. Which in the current issue is something politicians are ignored to grind their personal axes.
Aside from some of Chelsea's historic links, Millwall's away following and Tory Tory Man utd, I'd struggle to put any club in England on a political axis, and I think that's a good thing. I quite enjoy that I stand next to a load of people at LR who probably think I'm some kind of pinko traitor, but that if you're in blue and white hoops and you run your channels, we'll both cheer. The digitisation of existence is making us insular and we should champion communal experience
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Left wing/Right wing English clubs on 13:07 - Oct 21 with 2748 views
Left wing/Right wing English clubs on 10:38 - Oct 21 by nadera78
All of you are saying 'left wing' when what you mean is 'liberal or progressive'. There are no left wing football clubs in this country.
If we're talking "progressive," here is exhibit A:
"Things had started becoming increasingly desperate at Loftus Road but QPR have been handed a massive lifeline and the place has absolutely erupted. it's carnage. It's bedlam. It's 1-1."
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