Abstract
This article is based on my personal memories of the West Perth Football Club (WPFC) unofficial cheer squad, which operated in the Western Australian Football League (WAFL) competition from 1984–86. The article details ‘traditional’, ‘hot’ support for WPFC among teenaged supporters from working-and middle-class backgrounds. This is consistent with the concept of fluid post-modern ‘neo-tribes’ where affiliations are very loose and people can easily adjust their degree of commitment to a and/or leave the group when their personal priorities change. Once people joined this group they generally did not adjust their degree of commitment downwards, until the group itself broke up.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Article number | 17 |
| Pages (from-to) | 51-67 |
| Number of pages | 17 |
| Journal | Sporting Traditions |
| Volume | 31 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| Publication status | Published - Nov 2014 |
Keywords
- Australian Rules football
- Western Australian football
- West Perth Football Club
- soccer hooliganism
- Marxism