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The Will to Ugliness, and Decline in Culture, Among Soccer Fans

The Will to Ugliness, and Decline in Culture, Among Soccer Fans
A football fan in London on Jan. 27, 2019. Glyn Kirk/AFP via Getty Images
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Looking at the Guardian recently, the house journal of the British woke intelligentsia, I noticed a picture of a soccer crowd at the current European championship—a crowd as overwhelmingly male as any meeting of atomic physicists. They looked so horrible and ugly, so brutish, that I assumed at once that they must have been English.

Theodore Dalrymple
Theodore Dalrymple
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Theodore Dalrymple is a retired doctor. He is contributing editor of the City Journal of New York and the author of 30 books, including “Life at the Bottom.” His latest book is “Embargo and Other Stories.”
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