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FOOTBALL FANS DON , T DO THINGS BY HALVES

MERV PAYNE laments a fashion disaster that is creeping its way to a terrace near you

WHEN it comes to terrace chic there are two very distinct fashion houses. You’ll see them at most games. There is the casual: almost exclusively male, dripping with the latest labels and, to the untrained eye, barely distinguishable from the opposing team’s followers.
The main aim of casual culture was to out-label your terrace rivals and is traced back to fans travelling Europe to support their team and ‘obtain’ garments not yet on sale in the UK, stealing a march over your riv...

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