*Originally published on Shoot Farken as “Modern Football and Urban Alienation Under the Golden Arches in Maastricht”
An underground freeway is being built on the eastern edge of Maastricht. The current site is a broad expanse of dust. Middle of the ...
Or, “The Last Day of The Season”
The weather is mild: this is an evening for t-shirts and light jackets. The train leaves for Dordrecht from Leiden at 18:30 and will stop at Schiedam Centrum more or less at 1900. This allows ...
*Thomas E. Fuller is a psychologist and photographer based in Maastricht, The Netherlands. His photos of bicycles can be found here, Love Your Bicycle.
Uncle Tony barracks for Port. Aunty Kip barracks for Port. Uncle Tony is a joker. I’m not sure of his job. I remember he gave me a Crowded House cassette when I was seven, one Christmas in Helmsedale Avenue, Glengowrie. Aunty Kip ...
PSIM, a football club based in Yogyakarta and founded in 1929, has seen better years. The club is well and truly in the second tier of the domestic competition and suffers from poor management and fan violence. The violence not only occurs ...
The Catastrophe of PSS Sleman
Sofyan, an Acehnese man, living in Yogyakarta runs a small stall by the side of Lapangan Minggiran (Minggiran Field) in the southern part of the city. His regular customers are largely ex-soccer players from the local leagues. ...
Football Violence in Indonesia: A Case from Yogyakarta
On Sunday 12th October, 2014, Muhammad Ikhwanuddin, was killed in a car park near Adi Sucipto airport, Yogyakarta. He had been dragged from the bus, beaten with a baseball bat and stabbed in the ...
*This piece was originally published on Shoot Farken, here.
Football is a practice of cultural production. Being a fan is intrinsic to issues of identity – nationalism, parochialism, ideology, gender. The football stadium is, most often, an overwhelmingly male space. Fans ...
Andy Fuller, Playing Cities Making Sport, Yogyakarta: Tan Kinira Books, 2014
This book came out of an attempt to archive what I have written over the past two-to-three years. Initially, I wanted to collect all of my shorter writings and essays. ...