Football and community empowerment: how FC Sankt Pauli fans organize to influence

Totten, Mick

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“…Even though most of them had already recognised an improvement of the inter-stakeholder dialogue and exchange in recent years, the further development and strengthening was considered as very important. This opinion The handling of fan misbehaviour is also strongly represented in the literature (Cleland, 2010;Grunig, 2006;Numerato, 2015;Stott et al, 2020;Totten, 2016).…”

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Agency problems concerning the handling of fan misbehaviour and its punishment in football

Winskowski

Homölle

2022

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PurposeOn the example of professional football in Germany, this paper analyses the conflict about the punishment of fan misbehaviour within an agency-theoretical framework to cast light on the reasons for the ineffectiveness of the sentences and to show possible solutions.Design/methodology/approachIn a pre-study, more than 1,300 hand-collected past sentences against clubs by the German and European sports courts were analysed to demonstrate the ineffectiveness of the penalties so far. Additionally, in the main study, 26 expert interviews with German representatives of the football association, courts, clubs, sponsors, police and active fan scenes allow a deep insight into the relationships of the involved parties.FindingsThe paper suggests that the sentences do not sufficiently consider several agency problems. Due to moral hazard, they exert hardly any influence on fan behaviour and only a small one on the clubs. While the lighting of pyrotechnics is by far the most punished type of misbehaviour, most of the interviewees cite the impossibility of preventing it. Despite the sentences, some clubs make non-public agreements with their fans about still tolerable misconduct or do not pass the penalties on to the polluters as intended by the association. The findings highlight the importance of communication for less misbehaviour.Originality/valueFor the first time, the agency theory and the economic theory of optimal punishment are brought together with insights from interviews with the involved parties. The authors discover a two-stage principal-agent problem and get new insights into stakeholders' hidden motivations and attitudes. The results should encourage a debate on the current penalties and possible solutions to the recurring problem of pyrotechnics.

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Agency problems concerning the handling of fan misbehaviour and its punishment in football

Winskowski

Homölle

2022

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“…This, of course, does not mean that there have not been tremendously insightful, usually ethnographic, studies of football supporters which have given us a first-hand view into the origins of their fandom or even activism in different cultural contexts (e.g. Bleakney and Darby, 2018; Dixon, 2012; Dubal, 2010; Gilbert, 2018; Hodges, 2018; Lalić and Pilić, 2011; Totten, 2016). Exceptional advances have particularly been made by scholars employing relational sociology frameworks who have exposed the constant process of building and rebuilding of often transnational networks of football communities (Cleland et al, 2018).…”

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Football activism as political contention: Contextual determinants of membership in the association of supporters of Hajduk Split

Glaurdić

2019

International Review for the Sociology of Sport

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Where do politically activist football supporters come from? What are the social conditions under which they are successfully recruited and mobilised? This article answers those questions by analysing a unique dataset of more than 43,000 members of Our Hajduk – the association of supporters of the Croatian club Hajduk Split – as well as a host of data on the communities they live in. The analysis shows that Our Hajduk thrives in exactly the same areas where most other social, civil and political organisations thrive: among the more educated and more socio-economically successful. Most importantly, the analysis shows that the pattern of Our Hajduk membership closely follows the patterns of political affiliation and participation in Croatia’s electoral arena and is guided by the opposition to political players who have dominated Croatian football and turned it into a social field marked by corruption and mismanagement.

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“…Moxley concludes, “This fightback is an inspiration to all who want to organize against neoliberalism and gentrification, and all who want sports games for the people, not for profit.” The most prominent sport mega‐events, such as the Olympics and the FIFA World Cup, are by no means the sole sporting targets for antineoliberal sentiment and activism (Boykoff, Celebration Capitalism ; Gaffney; Horne; Lauermann). David Webber outlines the amorphous, yet discernible, “Against Modern Football” movement, of which the FC Sankt Paul fan organization Mick Totten examines is a noted exemplar. In addition, Scherer highlights grassroots community opposition to the use of public funds to finance the building of an ice hockey arena and entertainment district in Edmonton, Canada.…”

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Sport and Neoliberalism: An Affective‐Ideological Articulation

Andrews¹,

Silk²

2018

The J of Popular Culture

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Football and community empowerment: how FC Sankt Pauli fans organize to influence

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Agency problems concerning the handling of fan misbehaviour and its punishment in football

Agency problems concerning the handling of fan misbehaviour and its punishment in football

Football activism as political contention: Contextual determinants of membership in the association of supporters of Hajduk Split

Sport and Neoliberalism: An Affective‐Ideological Articulation

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