Polish ultras in the post-socialist transformation

The world of radical football fans across Europe is dominated by anti-system groups. While their sympathies in the west of the continent are mostly leftist, the ultras in the east tend to display right-wing attitudes. Poland makes a particularly interesting case in point, as the most intensive and emotional ideological criticism of the processes of 'transformation' and 'modernisation' is to be observed at the stadiums. As a result of historical developments, opposition against the system in the country can only be expressed using Catholic-patriotic symbolism, which in the case of collective actions of radical football supporters has produced sociocultural and aesthetic effects not to be found anywhere else in Europe.