The first clue that football promotes fascism is in the public perception of the players. Workaday defenders are nonentities, struggling to get by on meagre wages, whilst strikers get paid ridiculous sums of money, sometimes upwards of �2000 a week. If you watch media coverage of football, they don't concentrate on team performance or talk about how well the players cooperate -- they instead celebrate moments of great human individualism, the moments when one player will perform some act of beautiful genius and turn a game on its end. Players such as David Beckham, George Best, Pele, Maradonna, Terry Butcher and Michael Owen. These are players who can and do make a difference, but not by communicating with the team, but by subverting it, by going it alone. No matter how much the manager tries to impose communist, totalitarian standards (is it any wonder that the best managers in the UK have all been Scottish? No, because Scotland is easily the most left wing part of the UK), players still end up being individualist and spurn the notion of the common good.

Historically, football has always been associated with extreme politics. Lets look at this table of the best international and club sides the world has seen, cross referenced with the governance of each.

Football Team	Style of Government
Argentina, 1970s - 1980s	Fascist Generals
Spain, 1940s through to early 1970s	Franco, the Fascist
Yugoslavia, 1940s till 1980s	Tito, totalitarian
Soviet Union, 1960s	Khrushchev, totalitarian
Germany, 1930s and 1940s	Adolf Hitler, Fascist
Brazil, 1950s - 1990s	Varied -- 4 out of 5 world cup wins achieved under military/fascist regimes

These nations represent the heavyweights of international success over the years -- and every single one is either fascist or totalitarian. The relationship between football and dodgy political regimes is a close one then.

There have been some attempts to purge football of its fascist leanings. A good example is Holland in the 1970s, which invented total football, a tactical system whereby players didn't have set positions on the pitch anymore, such as striker, defender, midfielder, but rather each was regarded as capable of playing in any position, and they would swap around throughout the game. Clearly an attempt at imposing egalitarian, soundly socialist values, we should all salute the low country liberals for at least attempting to humanise football. Nonetheless, the fascist underpinnings of football soon jumped to the fore once more, as players such as Johannes Cruyff were raised above other members, and worshipped as Gods across Europe. How terrible that such noble ideals were spoiled by the natural bias towards hero worship and hence discrimination and exclusion inherent in this supposed 'King of Sports'.

Football Today

It is interesting to note that some of the scariest regimes in the world today back football to the hilt. Uday Hussein, the son of the notorious Saddam, is manager of the Iraq national side. He has a rigorous approach to team discipline, and will torture the team should they lose. Meanwhile, Saadi al-Qadhafi, son of the Libyan leader, is head of his country's FA and plays for the national team.

Such are the fascistic passions surrounding football that it has even been known to start wars. Honduras and neighbouring El Salvador actually warred after a World Cup qualifier in 1969, after a controversial penalty decision. It resulted in 3000 deaths.

Football is fascist. It lends itself to individualism and the glorification of the concept of superman. As such, it is the first target of totalitarian regimes that seek to show how superior the chosen race is. Strangely, in the west it is regarded as something of a liberal game -- one that promotes the ideals of socialism and friendliness to all Mankind. This is why hipster lefties throughout the western world often posture in support of the game.

However, one must wonder if the millions of Soccer Moms in America are aware of the terrible fascistic undertones of the game. They may think, as they send little Johnny off for soccer practise, that he is learning how to interact with others in a bonding environment. In actual fact, he is playing a sport that is enjoyed by dictators everywhere, a sport that is red with blood of millions of dead, a sport that encourages war, fascism, right wingery and hatred of self.

Look at the supporters of the game. Football is beset by hooliganism, but another name for this hooliganism is fascist activism -- what happens at an international football match really isn't any different to what happens at a meeting of the G7, political groups such as Combat 18 are always there in force, furthering their despicable right wing agenda. And this doesn't just happen at an international level. Lets have a look at these internationally respected clubs, and their associations:

Team	Country	Associations
Red Star Belgrade	Yugoslavia	Long history of association with brutal communist regime of Tito. Then the tool of the evil Milosevic regime. Now associated with the racist, modern Serbia of the concentration camps
Real Madrid	Spain	Most favoured club of Franco. Used to further the idea of the Spanish superman, and keep down the innocent Catalans by reinforcing a simple, all Spanish identity on the entire peninsula.
Barcelona	Spain	Long the symbol of Catalan separatism, terrorist groups such as ETA are closely related to the club. Not content with encouraging simple Spaniards to forget their peasant origins and blow up their brothers, they preach a gospel of terrible socialism.
Glasgow Rangers	UK	This club are the totem of the oppressive Unionist majority of Northern Ireland. They have a strong, almost fascist British identity, and such extremists as Billy Sands (NI terrorist) and Margaret Thatcher have been at games there. By flying the flag of hatred, the Union Jack, all the time, they seek to oppress all other religions and identities.
Glasgow Celtic	UK	Worshipped by the IRA and other anti-British Catholic organisations and communities in NI, this traitorous club have turned their backs on what it means to be British, despite being based on British soil. They use the freedoms provided by the British birthright to incite hatred against the prevailing order.

Another problem with football, and probably one that hampers it and makes it somewhat extreme, is the demands it makes upon the players. Not anyone can play football, you need a certain body shape. Strikers are all expected to be huge ectomorphs, sometimes in excess of 6'2" or more, whilst defenders have to be large and slow so they can dominate the game. This is a disgraceful lack of democracy that rots the very core of the sport, for it ensures that only those on the edge of human experience can expect to make it in the world of professional football.

I think it is perfectly clear that football is a dangerous sport, one that contaminates the mind of the reader with notions of racial superiority and Darwinian selection. Hopefully the EU or some such responsible body will see this and curtail the game, as it is surely a bar to European Unity to have nations continually fighting wars by proxy. Any good liberal should be ashamed that football is still allowed to exist in this day and age.