Abstract
Fans throughout Europe have developed many diverse ways to celebrate major football events. Audiences watch matches at various locations, such as their favourite pub, their home, in public open-air venues or sometimes even in the stadium. They meet with friends, family, colleagues, fellow football supporters and event fans for many different reasons. These reasons include patriotism, an interest in football, the party and community feeling, and peer pressure. Following media and public discourse during the 2012 UEFA European Football Championship (further referred to as Euro 2012) one might have been tempted to believe that every single person in Europe, and possibly also beyond, was following the football matches, eager to participate in a collective European, or even global, event.
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Szogs, N. (2015). Loyalty Jungle. In: Alpan, B., Schwell, A., Sonntag, A. (eds) The European Football Championship. Football Research in an Enlarged Europe. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137455062_3
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