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Are American Soccer Fans Starting to "Get It?"
Published 6/10/2007 by David J. Warner at FanHouse
... , a fan group on SAS Soccer Park's South Stand that ignored all the typical fluff and fearlessly did its own thing. These fanatics beat drums, waved flags and scarves, and started as many chants as possible. One fan brought giant laminated yellow and red cards and ran through the South Stand with one whenever a Rochester player was booked. The contrast between the 204 Depot and the rest of the crowd was striking. Most fans sat quietly and watched the game, but not on the South Stand. At one point, a prepubescent girls' soccer team to the left of the Depot began a "Let's Go Railhawks!" chant, and the Depot joined in. Then moments later, several Depot crazies harassed the Rhinos' goalie with chants of "Puta! Puta! Puta!" Hopefully, those girls hadn't started Spanish classes in school yet. Other, more established USL clubs have even bigger fan groups behind them. Thomas Dunmore, the prototypical Englishman in America, wrote this excellen

Worth Reading: PitchInvasion.net
Published 6/12/2007 by David J. Warner at FanHouse
... , an Englishman in America who has been blogging about soccer for the better part of this year. Thomas is using PitchInvasion.net to "explore football supporter culture, politics and passion in all their forms." He has a unique viewpoint on this game and the fanatics that follow it, which he demonstrated in this post about the Timbers Army in Portland and

Supercool Football Blog Alert(s)
Published 6/12/2007 by Derek at a pretty move
... , a site run by Thomas Dunmore who is an English ex-pat currently residing in Chicago. Dunmore has written some fine pieces on our own beloved Portland Timbers and the rabid TA supporters (focusing on the sometimes contentious relationship between the front office and the dedicated fans from the North End who collectively generate the sound and fury any team would pay to have backing them up), Barca's outspoken politically-minded defender

American Fanatic
Published 6/19/2007 at This Is American Soccer, US Soccer, MNT, WNT, and MLS
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An Open InvitationTo Marina Hyde
Published 7/15/2007 by Lynda at a pretty move
... , a Brit who does get the rising tide of American soccer fandom, has written about us (and other US fan groups). Our songs and chants, some of them gleefully foul, thunder throughout the stadium and the surrounding streets. We make our own stuff: we have more homemade scarves, T-shirts, buttons, kilts, and assorted paraphernalia than we know what to do with. We have a ...