The crowd of predominantly white English men, all dressed in Devil Red, met at their regular tailgating section outside Liverpool's legendary Anfield Stadium. From a distance, the group of football fanatics could be easily mistaken for one of the National Action or neo-Nazi gangs that menaced immigrants and Muslims in one of the working-class neighborhoods of Liverpool. Several could be mistaken for the anti-Muslim shooter who unloaded bullets into a hookah bar in Hanau, Germany, on February 19, 2020, killing ten innocent people the evening after Mohamed Salah and his club laced up their cleats to face Atlético Madrid.

XREF: Draws a chilling visual parallel between Liverpool's 'Devil Red' supporters and neo-Nazi/anti-Muslim gangs, which contrasts the club's pro-Salah, anti-racism stance with the aesthetics of far-right extremism. QUESTION: Worth probing whether sporting tribalism and political extremism share visual or performative markers, and how such similarity complicates perceptions from afar.

Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamopho…, loc. 1062