A mechanism or tactic · 1880 · Sport
Identification with a team
Supporting a club as a condition of belonging to a place, a class, a family, or a city.
A parasocial bond with an address. The team is the only large-scale attachment in modern life that arrives with geography attached, which is why a relegation is felt as a personal event by people who have never met the players.
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