An ethnographic study of football supporters in Northern Ireland

It focuses on the supporters of Cliftonville Football Club, based in North Belfast.<br><br>This thesis examines the relationship of the supporters with the club including the various activities of the supporters in association with the club and the identification of the supporters with the club. It scrutinizes the relationships between supporters, including the various interactions that take place between the supporters and the identification of supporters with each other.

In this thesis, I challenge those representations of football supporters that portray them as a homogenous mass by showing that they are composed of many different social groups, based on ties of family, friendship and neighbourhood.<br><br>This thesis presents an intimate, ground level picture of supporters. It looks at who these supporters are, what exactly they are doing and with whom they are doing these activities.