{"id":2936,"date":"2016-05-06T04:52:41","date_gmt":"2016-05-05T23:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/?p=2936"},"modified":"2026-07-17T20:18:25","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T14:48:25","slug":"england-india-fans-fifa-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/13.207.105.184\/?p=2936","title":{"rendered":"What Do English Football and Indian Cricket Fans Have in Common? Unchecked Rowdiness"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"container page-content\"><p><span class=\"dropcap\">N<\/span><\/p><\/div><p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ick Hornby writes in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fever Pitch<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that \u201ccomplaining <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">about <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/sports\/france-belgium-world-cup-semi-final\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">boring football<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is a little like complaining about the sad ending of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">King Lear<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: it misses the point somehow.\u201d It is a typically English view of the game. Exempt of consideration for beauty and its purpose in the realm of adrenaline and sweat. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/sports\/harry-kane-england-fifa-world-cup-2018-russia\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">English football<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> has since time immemorial, pined for the former, while dismissing the significance of the latter. As if perpetually desiring French Chardonnay, only to be served a hard-worn cognac that kind of does the job; the eventuality of one justifying the inaccessibility of the other. <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In more ways than one, English football and its fandom echoes the ethos of Indian cricket. We\u2019re like two step-brothers separated by format. <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The English football team have always been touted as perennial underachievers. Not poor, or downright abysmal, but underachievers. Their golden generation which included the likes David Beckham, Paul Scholes, Frank Lampard, Steven Gerrard, and Michael Owen among others, not only failed to win a major football tournament, but hardly put up a proper challenge like Belgium have this year. Yet the hype around these players was persistent, almost nauseating. A fleet of superheroes, manufactured at the fans\u2019 end of the spectrum \u2013 as most cults are. The Indian cricket team\u2019s golden generation of Sourav Ganguly, VVS Laxman, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/pop-culture\/sachin-tendulkar-sachin-a-billion-dreams-india-cricket-2\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sachin Tendulkar<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/sports\/rahul-dravid-the-wall-indian-cricket\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rahul Dravid<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, didn\u2019t perform too differently either. While underperformance in sport can only ever be a probability, the way it is analysed, celebrated or worst, hyped, definitely isn\u2019t.<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On the day England beat Sweden in the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/humour\/fifa-world-cup-2018-russia\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">World Cup<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> at a canter, some <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/sport\/england-fans-smash-ambulance-let-loose-in-ikea-after-win-over-sweden-20180709-p4zqb6.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">English fans broke into an IKEA store (a Sweden-based company)<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to express not just joy, but the brutishness of English identity. It wasn\u2019t football they celebrated, it was one country beating the other, as if at war. A perverse brand of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/humour\/news-anchor-journalism-arnab-goswami\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">patriotism<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that appears stubborn only in victory, with humility as collateral damage. Even before the World Cup began, the English media was plotting its way to the final, discounting teams based not on footballing nous, but a preamble of masturbatory eventualities. Nothing is truer of the Indian cricket fan and its media, when it comes to taking pride in bashing modest teams. <\/span>\n\n<blockquote class=\"quote--center\"><p>Almost every other pitch that hosts a cricket match these days feels like a patch of earth borrowed from India.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Football has changed over the years, with <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/sports\/when-spain-almost-lost-control-of-morocco-yet-again\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Spain<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and Germany developing identities that the English can only envy. Their exits only underline the impermanence of every evolutionary cycle, the need to re-evaluate. English football has on the other hand won pretty much every battle off the field \u2013 the one fought across desks and sofa chairs. The <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/pov\/football-arsenal-manchester-united-wenger-liverpool-facebook-manchester-city-chelsea\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Premier League<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is the most watched league, the richest, and easily the most publicised. The football, especially that played by English footballers, though, remains painfully regressive, stuck in a time loop of pasteurised athleticism that ghost-writes the idea of a clean and persuasive style. We find it hard to separate Manchester United from England.<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Style, here is the keyword. Something English football has rarely known. Yes, there have been the likes of the nimble-footed Paul Gascoigne, but he was an exception more than he was likely to become the rule. None of England\u2019s most decorated footballers, with the exception of one or two, have succeeded in football leagues outside England or have even been wanted by other clubs. Much like most Indian cricketers whose struggles on foreign pitches is a recurring d\u00e9j\u00e0 vu.<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Then there is the politics. Oh how the English football fan and the Indian cricket fan, love the political context. Beat Scotland or beat <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/satire\/pakistani-artists-cricket-india-vs-new-zealand-dhoni-virat-kohli-fawad-khan\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pakistan<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, there is needle with the neighbour on so many levels. Consequently, celebrating a duel of mediocrities, like India and Pakistan carried out in the shadow of a dominant Australia for more than a decade, becomes the norm. As much as English football and Indian cricket have been triumphant off the pitch, cornering the opponents into economic submission, they have thrived only while others have faltered. India did not have a prayer against the Australia of old, which is why that <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Indian_cricket_team_in_Australia_in_2003%E2%80%9304\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Border-Gavaskar<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> trophy remains special to the most organic fan.<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The solution to these problems has been straightforward. Help everyone descend to your level, if you cannot rise to theirs. Almost every other pitch that hosts a cricket match these days feels like a patch of earth borrowed from India. The fast bowler will nearly <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/sports\/cricket-england-australia-bowling\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">disappear<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in the years to come, and that would be great news for Indian fans because we have never produced a decent one. Pitches are increasingly batsmen-friendly, the laziest task of all in cricket. Similarly, were English football come to be justified by any form of success, it would become a horrifyingly anti-football model many might try to emulate.<\/span>\n\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1531385941-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"610\" height=\"407\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-36775\" \/>\n<figcaption>\n<p>In more ways than one, English football and its fandom echoes the ethos of Indian cricket. We\u2019re like two step-brothers separated by format. <\/p>\n<p>Image credit: Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the ongoing World Cup, 80 per cent of England\u2019s goals have come from set pieces, their best players have been their defenders, and the most eye-catching moments they have contributed have been the saves by their goalkeeper. But the hype around the team has been peerless, to the point that ludicrous <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2018\/jul\/10\/psychology-england-football-team-change-your-life-pippa-grange\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">life-lessoning<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> has abounded in the wake of their semi-final bow<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Never has fervency for an almost-thing, that definitely isn\u2019t, been so aggressive, marked by absurd anthems like <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RJqimlFcJsM\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cFootball\u2019s Coming Home\u201d<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">England\u2019s <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/sports\/croatia-england-fifa-world-cup\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">exit<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> from the World Cup is a lesson in itself, but it\u2019s unlikely the likes of Indian cricketing enthusiasts will learn anything from it. More than anything else, the lack of respect England had for teams around them, those built on shrewd budgets, countries that have risen through wars and turmoil, that English football lacks. Something even the Croatia captain Luka Modric <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2018\/jul\/11\/croatia-motivated-lack-of-respect-england-luka-modric\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">pointed to<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> after their victory over England<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. English football has always wanted to build a narrative of victimhood of pretend-suffering that makes their mediocrity salvageable through poetry. But in truth, they understand nothing of poetry, have never produced any on the field, and are unlikely to do so in the future, should their self-worth continue to be gilded by egotism. <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">An England victory last night, would have been a footballing disaster, the triumph of capitalism, of misplaced, humourless nationalism, of hype and mispronounced ideals, of a life-depriving brand of football, of the machine over the artist. <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Good riddance then. It won\u2019t be coming home.<\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>English football and its fandom echoes the ethos of Indian cricket. 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