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LIT-1150: Supporters, Followers, Fans, and Flaneurs: A Taxonomy of Spectator Identities in Football

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StatusActive — read in full 2026-10-29 (NOTE-1244) from the Author's Original Text deposited in Loughborough's repository (Figshare 9625841, CC BY-NC-ND), the pre-review version; worth reading as the standard four-type taxonomy of football spectators (supporters, followers, fans, flâneurs) on two axes, hot–cool and traditional–consumer, with a claimed historical drift towards the flâneur. Conceptual, with no data. Source of THEORY-1111.
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Cited as “paper” byNOTE-1244 — Supporters, Followers, Fans, and Flaneurs: A Taxonomy of Spectator Identities in Football
Cited as “source” byTHEORY-1111 — Spectators' identification with football clubs varies on two independent axes, how central the club is to the self (hot or cool) and whether the tie rests on local tradition or on market consumption, giving supporters, followers, fans and flâneurs; and commodification since the late 1980s has shifted identification from supporters towards flâneurs

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Giulianotti, R. (2002). Journal of Sport and Social Issues 26(1):25–46.

Read in full in NOTE-1244, from the author’s pre-review text.

Why this is here

A6 of the exchange of 2026-10-16: a check that “fandom” is not one kind of allegiance, and against reading identification as corporate agency (QUESTION-119).

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