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Mike Wheeler & the Kearny Scots for @whatahowler⚽️ - I’ve played my whole life, and still do when I can. My touch is worse, I’m a little slower, and recovery takes a lot longer, but I still love the game. So when I was asked to shoot a story about an over-30 men’s team in New Jersey, I jumped at the chance to photograph some guys who knew exactly how I felt🙏🏾⚽️ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 - Thanks to @ecapossela for a fun assignment and @maeagency for making the time🙌🏾 . . . . . #Howlermag #howlermagazine #whatahowler #soccer #football #kearnyscots #soccerlife #futbol #kearnynewjersey #brenizermethod #nikond810 #vscoportrait #ig_mood #discoverportrait #portraitphotography #profile_vision #bleachmyfilm #postmoreportraits #portraitpage #igpodium_portraits #newjersey #hoboken #jersey #nikonphotography #nikontop #focalmarked (at Kearny, New Jersey) https://www.instagram.com/p/BseCXgQDMZq/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=r7cfmcodpgux

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A snippet from my Howler piece published in 2015

The song lasts a devastating ten seconds on the low-res video. Its words are initially hard to discern. A group of men on a train car are attempting to harmonize. In another place or at another time they might have been praised for revealing something of their feelings, making a show of love, baring their souls. But not this place, not this time, not these men.

The place: the Paris metro.The time: the aftermath of a Champions League Football match.The men: fans of Chelsea Football Club. They reveal their innermost feelings in the form of a song, though it does not deserve that label. It’s a chant, a hate rant. Before breaking out in song, they repeatedly shove a black man, preventing him from boarding the train car. Their words give me shivers: “We’re racist, we’re racist, and that’s the way we like it, we like it, we like it…” Those words, so easily sung, ring in my ears. They stick in my mind, where they cannot easily escape. Who could sing such a song?

I know who they are: hooligans, yobbos, thugs. I want to deny their existence, to pretend that they are no longer part of my England. I thought they’d been banished to the history books. For me, these scenes feel ripped from the pages of Among The Thugs, Bill Buford’s devastating account of English soccer hooligans in the 1980s.

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From Howler Magazine editor George Quraishi.

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A fantastically visceral experience of Scottish Football as told by Alan Black of the SF Chronicle  on Howler Radio.

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