The cheer that rises from Nante's arena after 70 minutes played is infectious and easy to pull in.

Goal, 1-0.

This is the place where the yellow-green-black fans get to scream both their euphoria and anger. Many have loaded with beer of course, but also with other things. It is not just on the pitch that there is grass, if you say so. Even in the cig. The stand is a bit of a free zone where many dare to live more, where there is a little higher ceilings for what to do - and scream.

In recent years, policy in France has tried to shrink this free zone. Football fans are increasingly subject to restrictions on how they are allowed to move, fireworks have been banned, the stands are divided into smaller sections. Matches are placed at times that suit advertisers better than the audience. All this scares the most dedicated supporters. And on top of that came the command that certain words and rams no longer be sung.

Guess what happened. Yes, the forbidden words are sung like never before.

But the rough frames and texts on the banners were now directed at the football league, against the judges and even against the government. In addition to pure provocations - "we fuck the football league in the ass" - questions about double standards have also been raised. How do the football pitchers have the stomach to chase homophobia on the stands when simultaneously trying to sell French football to people with money in the homophobic state of Qatar?

Basically, the conflict is about who the football today belongs to, and who really decides what should apply to the stands. Here is a sweaty break between the companies that own the league and the clubs and the hardest core of supporters.

Winning the fight through bans and canceled matches has failed. But maybe it wasn't in vain anyway. Never before has homophobia been discussed as much in French football as this fall.

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