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Working Class / Left wing football clubs?

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Reply 20
Original post by KingHarold
St Pauli

Probably AFC Wimbledon.

Real Man U supporters probably (those in Manchester or brought up there, not the plastic glory seekers who probably have no political opinions).


These are two really good examples I didn't consider. I'm not sure if I'd call them 'left-wing' in terms of fans, but they both very much exist on a 'people against big business' basis.

UPDATE: When you said Man U for some reason I thought you meant FC United of Manchester, not Man U. My bad.
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Reply 21
aek athens is wing left team
The only football club’s fans that hate their own country are the supporters of Rangers who absolutely despise the Scottish national team with a passion
Reply 23
Original post by MikeP17
People around the world think of Liverpool firstly as the Merseyside team who are left-wing but fully agree that Everton are the more community based team, and have a stronger support with the city of Liverpool, as oppose to Liverpools larger nationwide following, therefore making Everton more of the working class / left wing team on Merseyside

It’s absolute nonsense to say that there are more Everton fans than Liverpool ones in the city. This a myth peddled by Everton fans and the media because the club doesn’t have much else going for it.
Reply 24
Portland Timbers FC. Oregon, a Blue state
Original post by Mess.
It’s absolute nonsense to say that there are more Everton fans than Liverpool ones in the city. This a myth peddled by Everton fans and the media because the club doesn’t have much else going for it.

Anecdotal but 80%+ of scourers I've met in London, and nearly all students at my uni, were Everton fans. Add to that Bellew/Rooney etc and the long list of LFC legends who are Blue and it's not a big jump to conclude that there are more Everton fans in the City. May be that they are more vocal about it though.

Cant see why it would be the case but just my experience.
Reply 26
Original post by Zürich
Anecdotal but 80%+ of scourers I've met in London, and nearly all students at my uni, were Everton fans. Add to that Bellew/Rooney etc and the long list of LFC legends who are Blue and it's not a big jump to conclude that there are more Everton fans in the City. May be that they are more vocal about it though.

Cant see why it would be the case but just my experience.

I lived in Liverpool for 3 years and this simply is not the case. clearly way more Liverpool fans than Everton, although there are obviously a sizeable number of Everton fans in the city for obvious reasons
Original post by bj27
I lived in Liverpool for 3 years and this simply is not the case. clearly way more Liverpool fans than Everton, although there are obviously a sizeable number of Everton fans in the city for obvious reasons

thats my experience from livingin Liverpool also. Same lie is spread about there being no Man United fans in Manchester. To answer the OP; Celtic
Original post by utr
Its difficult to paint any club in England with the 'left-wing' brush as I would say every club in England will have elements of right-wing and left-wing supporters amongst their ranks.


Whitehawk (in the National League south I think).
Original post by Ganjaweed Rebel
AC Milan, Man United, Roma, Birmingham FC, Feyenoord


Rangers?
All German teams with roots in Ruhr area are founded by the working clas, with BVB as the best known:

Borussia Dortmund
FC Schalke 04
VfL Bochum
Rot-Weiss Essen
Manchester United.

They have a massive Anti fascist/anti racist presence within the match going reds. Manchester and Salford are both Labour safe seats and have rich radical history from feminism to socialism, the city of Manchester is a left wing city and this is the political attitude of a massive core of the local fanbase. Marcus Rashford, Eric Cantona. Both stood up for what was right. Busby and Ferguson both had socialist/left wing views and spoke about it openly. Busby was a big friend of shankly. - Liverpool and Manchester united two North West powerhouses with a similar story.
Original post by Redmanc95
Manchester United.

They have a massive Anti fascist/anti racist presence within the match going reds. Manchester and Salford are both Labour safe seats and have rich radical history from feminism to socialism, the city of Manchester is a left wing city and this is the political attitude of a massive core of the local fanbase. Marcus Rashford, Eric Cantona. Both stood up for what was right. Busby and Ferguson both had socialist/left wing views and spoke about it openly. Busby was a big friend of shankly. - Liverpool and Manchester united two North West powerhouses with a similar story

Not to forget Gary Neville, who is holding the current Tory government to account, as a player was known as Red Nev for his socialist views.
Before millennials were born these clubs were working class and now be right wing. So corbynites would be communists and we would lose our freedom of speech and movement.
Reply 34
Original post by lord Lucan1
Before millennials were born these clubs were working class and now be right wing. So corbynites would be communists and we would lose our freedom of speech and movement.

What on earth are you on about?
In Brazil, Corinthians was founded by working class figures, has the largest fan base on metropolitan areas and is known as “People’s Team”.
Original post by SCIENCE :D
Man utd are more left wing than Man City.

Man City are known for having an EDL element, so are Chelsea.

This is massively false, United has one of the biggest fascist elements in the country and thats just the local lads, City has always had a left wing/socialist following with our Irish roots such. We gained some bad apples in the 80s but so did every club in the UK.
Manchester United
Reply 38
Crystal Palace. Defo left. Sadly though every English club has a right wing ****** elements.
Besiktas Istanbul's fanbase is cArsi and left wing (Anarchist)
Celtic's fanbase is mostly left wing
Rayo Vallecano is a socialist football club located in Madrid.
Until recently, I knew that Union Berlin was a left wing fanbase club, but after their fans made the Nazi salute in the match, I realized that this was not true.
Liverpool's foundation is based on the left wing.
People think that Roma is left wing because it is opposite the Lazio, but this is wrong and one of the biggest fan groups of Roma is far right wing.
Barcelona appears left-wing within the country, but is far-right internally, so it wouldn't be right to include it in this list.
AS Livorno Calcio has huge left wing fanbase
ST Pauli is a left wing club
AEK Athens has mostly left wing fanbase

Original post by MikeP17
Interested to see which football fan bases are a combination of working class in status and left wing in political allegiance, particularly ones that don’t come to mind immediately, e.g Feyenoord.

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