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As we come marching marching in the beauty of the day. A million darkened in kitchens, a thousand mill

off screys, are brightened by the beauties, sun and sun discloses.

And the people here are seeing bread and roses, bread and roses.

Most football terraces in Argentina,

because they tend to be of a working class background,

tend to have sympathies with what we call the Campo Popular, Popular Camp, I guess, would be the literal translation.

I don't know if that means anything or the same thing in English, now that I think about it,

which basically would

translate in practice to you'll mainly find peronistas, perinists. Terrorists in general,

and dressing specifically, but like most terraces, you know, it's generally an unruly space.

It's a rebellious space. It's a space where anti-police sentiment is very common. So, you know, while it

doesn't have explicit political affinities the way maybe European fan groups often do, that's very,

very rare in Argentina. It tends to have that kind of character. As I was describing kind of the clubs in Argentina or their

social role, that it's similar to what the union and working people's association ecosystem

used to be once upon a time. So this is exactly how a lot of the clubs in Argentina started. They were

founded, many of them based on the immigrant ethnic collective that they revolved around

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