Man City/Arsenal led to another slew of claims from fans of grand conspiracies from fans against their team.
It has long since ceased to be an expression of the nation’s working class, while Danny Blanchflower’s creed that the game is “about glory…about doing things in style, with a flourish” has been irredeemably traduced by decades of cheating, rancour and ugliness on and off the pitch.
The brilliance of the insight is only underlined when you subject it to the rigour of the best analysis of the notion of ‘camp’, written by top, top cultural critic Susan Sontag. Advertisement A person being one, very intense thing is the fate of all of the Premier League’s favourites. Another of Sontag’s key tenets of camp is its lack of self-awareness. Anything or anybody too self-aware risks lapsing into self-parody.
The sport and its outcome obviously means a great deal to respective sets of supporters involved, but as Oscar Wilde told us, there’s a difference between treating something as important and taking it seriously.
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