footbaall culture
... In this research I will examine the game of football as a reflection of societyÕs system of culture, rituals, identity construction, social construction, politics, religion, and nationhood, I will provide an analogy between two football clubs in Scotland, GlasgowÕs Celtic and Rangers as a model of culture reflection. ... The arts are a Òuniversal means of expressing the basic themes, values, perceptions of reality, and the very identity of a culture, (Nanda- Warms, 373) In all cultures people have a sense of their own identity. ... Òspectacle, along with festival, ritual and game is a genre of cultural performance, and is one of those occasions through which as a culture or society, we reflect upon and define ourselves, dramatise our collective myths and history present ourselves with alternatives and eventually change in some ways while remaining the same in othersÓ. ... The game links people together from most nations of the world, from different continents and with varying history and culture. ... The inability or desire not to articulate an Irish background is partly the result of Scotland/Britains relationship with Ireland over a period of hundreds of years, and partly to a constant exposure to a dominating indigenous culture and identity. ... One way to express the triumph of one culture over another is at the football field. ... (Hobsbawm, 143) Football tends to reinforce religious, class-based notions of identity and culture.