足球迷的“受虐”快感：一场关于忠诚的共谋 scamThe 'Masochism' of Football Fandom: A Complicity Scam of Loyalty
David Squires 把足球迷的生活描述为 masochistic（受虐的），这在文化层面上完成了一次极其精巧的 weaponization。当一个支持者将自己对球队糟糕表现的忍耐、对管理层无能的宽容，定义为一种“受虐的浪漫”时，他实际上是在用一种文化叙事来掩盖结构性的暴力。
在足球这个典型的 masculine-centric narrative 场域里，“忠诚”被赋予了至高无上的道德价值。球迷被训练成相信：无论俱乐部如何剥削你的情感、如何通过商业化地割韭菜、如何让你的周末变成一场精神折磨，只要你依然在看台上呐喊，你就是个“真球迷”。这本质上是一场共谋。球迷通过扮演“受虐者”来确认自己的身份认同，而俱乐部则利用这种身份政治，将管理上的失败转化为一种可以被消费的“传统”。
这种叙事最阴险的地方在于，它把一种 Potential（一个高效、公正、尊重支持者的体育组织）与 Actual（一个混乱、贪婪、只顾盈利的商业机器）之间的差额，通过“受虐”这个词给浪漫化了。当这种差额被定义为“生活的一部分”时，structural violence 就变成了某种带有仪式感的文化习俗。你以为你在热爱足球，其实你只是在共谋维持一个让你痛苦的权力结构。
David Squires describes the life of a football fan as masochistic, which is a sophisticated weaponisation at the cultural layer. When a supporter defines their endurance of a team's failure and tolerance of management's incompetence as a 'masochistic romance,' they are using a cultural narrative to mask structural violence.
In the masculine-centric narrative of football, 'loyalty' is granted supreme moral value. Fans are trained to believe that as long as they keep cheering—regardless of how the club exploits their emotions, scams them through commercialization, or turns their weekends into mental torture—they are 'true fans.' This is fundamentally a complicity. Fans confirm their identity by performing the role of the 'masochist,' while clubs leverage this identity politics to transform managerial failure into a consumable 'tradition.'
The most insidious part of this narrative is that it romanticizes the gap between the Potential (an efficient, just, and supporter-respecting sports organization) and the Actual (a chaotic, greedy, profit-driven commercial machine) by labeling it 'masochism.' When this gap is defined as 'part of life,' structural violence is rebranded as a ritualistic cultural custom. You think you love football, but you are merely a co-conspirator in maintaining a power structure that causes you pain.