{"id":24168,"date":"2018-07-16T13:54:43","date_gmt":"2018-07-16T12:54:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.redpepper.org.uk\/?p=24168"},"modified":"2024-06-03T10:44:58","modified_gmt":"2024-06-03T09:44:58","slug":"is-football-coming-home-to-racist-england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.redpepper.org.uk\/culture-media\/sport\/is-football-coming-home-to-racist-england\/","title":{"rendered":"Is football coming home to racist England?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kylewalker2\/status\/1015627925310312448\/photo\/1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kyle Walker<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> was not the only one who couldn\u2019t get \u2018Football\u2019s Coming Home\u2019 out of his mind. Skinner and Baddiel\u2019s anthem, originally written for Euro 1996, had after all become the standard for the last three weeks. Of course, the imagery suggested by the original \u2018Three Lions\u2019<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">title for that song was more typically evocative of nationalism and football violence than the more playful \u2018it\u2019s coming home\u2019 chorus. That then, if nothing else, begs the question: what exactly is \u2018coming home\u2019 this time round?<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Is \u2018coming home\u2019 a metonym for popular jingoism allied to a bleak post-Brexit future? Or, as has been <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newstatesman.com\/politics\/sport\/2018\/07\/gareth-southgate-and-new-progressive-englishness\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">suggested<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> by some commentators, is it the very subversion of that nationalist violence: the team\u2019s modest and easily-worn multiculturalism finding more affinity with the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/labourlist.org\/2018\/07\/the-world-cup-proves-the-left-can-do-national-pride\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">progressive politics of Corbyn<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> than it does with <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/novaramedia.com\/2018\/07\/07\/talented-diverse-a-team-this-england-side-is-the-opposite-of-the-countrys-ruling-elite\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Theresa May and Nigel Farage<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">?<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Any claim for this moment as some kind of progressive nationalism should be treated with caution \u2013 not only because \u2018nationalism\u2019 and \u2018progressive\u2019 ought be viewed as oxymoronic, but also because it grossly overstates the relevance of football to political life. The fanfare around the \u2018Black, Blanc, Beur\u2019 French team of 1998, and their ensuing victory, should remind us that nationalism is not overcome by a multiethnic team. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While obviously better than an entirely white French side, nationalism can effortlessly write out such \u2018progressive\u2019 claims as it continues to pursue its anti-immigrant and anti-minority politics. A mere glance at the recent history of France makes that hard to deny. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nonetheless, the various ways people have engaged with this England team remains important. It is for instance evident that so many of our friends, acquaintances, and even kin, often non-white, have happily engaged with the team\u2019s quasi-success without it signalling an investment in the policing of national boundaries; without it endorsing a Brexit hubris; and without it rehearsing the next call to bomb the Middle East. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Nationalism and football<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Between these two seemingly discordant positions lies therefore the complicated and contemporary story of nationalism and football. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The noxious race politics that spluttered on during the last three weeks of World Cup fever is a useful place to start. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">First, the jocular celebrations across England were never far from vicious \u2018<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.irr.org.uk\/news\/the-emergence-of-xeno-racism\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">xeno-racist<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2019 barracking. The violences, both on the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/londonlatinxs\/status\/1014647907365122048\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">street<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> but also via <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2018\/jul\/03\/the-sun-go-kane-colombian-ambassador-complains-world-cup-england\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">headlines<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and Twitter \u2013 as visited upon Colombians, Croatians, and, less egregiously, on <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/sport\/football\/news\/england-fans-cause-havoc-ikea-12875830\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">IKEA stores<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u2013 are not insignificant. Such violences remind us of the connection between white English muscularity and entitlement that permeate narratives of English success. The emotions of deep and guttural joy \u2013 as witnessed at a pub near Brighton station during England\u2019s final game against Croatia \u2013 was never very far, it transpired, from \u2018Fuck off, you dirty fucking Yugoslav!\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Second, it is worth reflecting on how easily those <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/sport\/football\/world-cup\/england-world-cup-fans-sweden-celebration-ambulance-ikea-bus-stop-london-win-a8437026.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">acts of civic destruction<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> were brushed over. The allowances given to such drunken bonhomie is in many ways welcome. But such good grace is rarely extended to racialised minority communities should they engage in comparable behavior. The racist over-policing and moral indignation that meets <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/news\/london\/are-we-only-doing-tweets-like-this-for-black-events-stormzy-in-race-jibe-at-met-over-notting-hill-a3617496.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Notting Hill Carnival<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/news\/london\/call-to-ban-horrible-wireless-festival-from-finsbury-park-after-riot-last-year-a3196306.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Wireless<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2013\/nov\/15\/sheffield-page-hall-roma-slovakia-immigration\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Roma street corner<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and Black nighttime leisure more broadly, is made all the more stark when the civic excesses of white festivity is seen as mere good natured, public camaraderie \u2013 on the grounds that it is supporting the nation. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Third, the special opprobrium reserved for Raheem Sterling was both nasty and expected. The tabloid media, and the traumatized English society it reflects, longs for scapegoats to violently repudiate. David Beckham played that role after England\u2019s 1998 World Cup loss to Argentina. On that occasion, the vengeance stood in for the colonial conquest of the Falklands war. Sterling\u2019s treatment was<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">for its part<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">textbook anti-Black racism. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Already readied in certain <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2018\/may\/30\/raheem-sterling-media-young-black-men-footballer-tattoo\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">media<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> quarters as the player of dubious provenance, he acted as a shibboleth for who is and isn&#8217;t\u00a0truly part of\u00a0the nation. Black friends of ours watched in pubs with alarm as white chauvinism became exercised at the slightest hint of an over-hit Sterling pass or a scuffed Sterling shot. Such repudiation is not imaginable for Harry Kane. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Pop culture refrains<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2018it\u2019s coming home\u2019<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">refrain itself also hinted at particular insights about English nationalism\u2019s relationship to popular culture. As fans of different generations sang this song, many will have been too young to remember the first version; but for those who did, that public act returned them to a high point of white lad culture, associated with Loaded Magazine and Oasis. That celebration was never neutral. It was <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jacobinmag.com\/2017\/12\/1997-new-labour-thatcher-nationalism\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cool Britannia\u2019s<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> claim to whiteness at the beginning of a new Labour nation. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2018\u2019s invocation of \u2018it\u2019s coming come\u2019 came initially to our attention through an inventive meme game, heavy with humor and irony. But with time, and through sheer repetition, it became something rather different \u2013 something akin to a more troubling instance of \u2018<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalismproject.org\/what\/billig.htm\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">banal flagging\u2019<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> as appropriate to the streak of \u2018<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/cup.columbia.edu\/book\/postcolonial-melancholia\/9780231134552\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">postcolonial melancholia<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2019 that courses through English nationalism. Those who see it as mere jollity should be reminded that the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">home <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">is not an idle motif of nationalism. In England, as elsewhere, there prevails a desire for the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">homely nation<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> as the site of care, nurture and fortification. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But it is also worse. In England, such a chant also signals a distinctly imperial claim to greatness. It takes a global object of importance (football) and then reasserts upon it a strong proprietorial claim. The chant\u2019s implicit claim, that football originates in England, is not all that easily detached from English imperialism\u2019s simultaneous claim to be the authentic foundation of the world.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">To cheer, or not to cheer?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All this risks suggesting that the case for supporting England, regardless of the context, is beyond redemption. Such are the times we live in. Nothing shall pass without it being given an absolute verdict that rejects nuance, rejects contradiction, and rejects ambivalence. &nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But how then to think through the discrepancies of geography? The practice and symbolism of supporting England landing differently, for instance, in Thanet when compared to Plaistow or Cheetam Hill; and likely to land differently in the pub when compared to the living room. An atunement to these variations is necessary if critics are to avoid being all too smugly righteous about who and why people might be revelling in the team\u2019s good fortune. For, in any single location, and we have been in a few, there have been many different engagements: from indifference, to \u2018<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Anyone-But-England-Outsider-English\/dp\/1845130847\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Anyone But England\u2019<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> anti-colonial opposition (though at times tinged with excitement), to strong exclusionary claims, to various channellings of national loss, to empathy for the young men we see week-in, week-out. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We should also remember, at the very least, that some black and minority ethnic footballs fans\u2019 <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MagicMagid\/status\/1015690166273536000\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">support of England<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> does not involve on their part a denial of the racism they also experience. It also does not foreclose a more happenstance approach to the celebration of football. <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.co.uk\/football\/italy\/story\/3513596\/mario-balotelli-praised-for-standing-up-to-racism-during-italy-match\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mario<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.co.uk\/football\/italy\/story\/3411184\/mario-balotelli-told-by-italian-politician-to-stick-to-his-job-after-criticism\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Balotelli<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> was consistently a powerful example of this, wearing an Italian shirt because of the serendipity of location whilst maintaining a studied opposition to Italian nationalism. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What is also almost entirely omitted from this wider critical commentary is the status of football itself. Mass football, famously denounced as \u2018<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/abs\/10.1080\/17460263.2012.761150\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">war minus the shooting\u2019<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, can no longer act as a neat neat stand-in for the fate of the English nation \u2013\u00a0if it ever could. It is too multiethnic, too Black, too undisciplined a game (in spite of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/world-cup\/0\/var-rules-used-fifa-world-cup-2018-russia\/\">VAR<\/a>), too globally commercial, and too weighted in favour of the treacherous allegiances of club and celebrity that accompanies it. The particular formation of contemporary petit-bourgeois nationalism (because that is precisely what UKIP, Brexit and much else is) does not therefore find it easy to co-opt the football team, like it can with rugby or the Proms.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Acknowledging these ambivalences involved in supporting the England team are necessary only because a blanket rejection of that position allies with the kind of sedimented recalcitrance that an anti-nationalist Left politics must rally against. By being so pious, by being so declamatory, by refusing to read the nuances of such support, is to end up soliciting a politically bankrupt puritanism; it is to abet nationalism, not abate it. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Home&#8217; is not a simple place. 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