Fascist Galaxy Fans? Uh…wha…HUH?

By: Laurie | March 5th, 2008

I got a rather unusual email the other day. My first impulse was to dismiss it automatically.

My second was to think, “Well… The world is a strange place. I suppose it’s possible.”

Tell me what you think. Here’s what it said:

Hi Laurie,
I am a reader of the offside and a supporter of [European team.] I am also beginning to follow the MLS as well. I help moderate a North American [team] forum and earlier today we had a [arch-rival team] fan trying to troll our board. Among the usual garbage that they say, he was also a fascist and mentioned a bunch of teams with right wing supporters such as Chelsea, Rangers, Lazio, etc, but also mentioned the Galaxy. I had to stop and laugh at this and commented how that might be the silliest thing I’ve ever read. He said however that there is a group of fascist fans at Galaxy games, around 10 and growing he said. I was wondering if you were aware of any such group? Thanks for your help!

The reason I didn’t dismiss this was the “10 and growing” part. Ten’s not a lot, especially in a stadium that seats, what, 27,000? But it could be the start of something. Or it could just be ten maladjusted people coming together. Or it could be a complete fabrication — one troll’s way to get attention.

What do you think? Anybody heard anything along these lines? Or can we file it under “garbage rumors”?

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JustJack

Holy cow I can't believe what I'm reading about fascism here... it's NOT a left wing thing AT ALL. That canard's an all too common myth in 'Merkuh but it's utterly false. Ask a guy over the sound from Laurie, Dave Neiwert, an expert on the subject, even wrote a couple of excellent books. http://dneiwert.blogspot.com

The big fascist phenom we have in CA are the Minutemen and the morons at vdare, but they don't watch soccer/football (RWA's call it "commie-ball"), they do grid-iron.
CentralCoaster

Those fascists are gonna be in a for a little surprise when a lot of Guatemalans show up to games now that we have Ruiz again.
Laurie

Nathan, I somehow knew that this sordid affair had your name written all over it. :-)

Frank, I did wonder if this was an offshoot of that post-game fracas last year -- a bit of "must've been the fascists" overreaction.
Frank

Well, there was a tangle at one of the Galaxy/Chivas matches last year where, apparently, racist chants were thrown back and forth between a very small group of supporters for both sides. Don't know how much truth there is to this story, but I remember reading about it on one of the blogs shortly thereafter.
Nathanhj

Sorry for all the confusion about the "fascists". That's just me and my 10 closest leather daddies out for our soccer fix.

But now that you bring it up, I'm thinking a lot of delicious thoughts about peaked caps and leather jodhpurs... I gotta call my boys, I think we have a theme for the next orgy,er, I mean, gathering.