ABSTRACT
Football fans are not passive viewers of football matches but active creators of material, audio, performative, and visual fan subculture. The Slovenian public seems to theorise an awful lot on fans: apart from rare exceptions, the prevailing attitude is negative, the moral panic is not unlike the fear that erupted when other subcultures began establishing. Fans follow a simple imperative: to repeat ad infinitum; the more stickers, graffiti, and stencils wherever, the better. Fan graffiti tell us that their attitude towards the national also deviates from what they had declared. The nationally conscious fans of Slovenian clubs attack Serbian and Croatian nationalistic graffiti: this is no fan battle but an altercation between the home fan group and other nationalists. Such graffiti battles often employ hard-core chauvinist rhetoric, symbols. Fan graffiti and street art hold the mirror to modern Slovenian society which tries to avoid it with all of its might so that it may never recognise itself in it.
