The article made the exact opposite point. He said that soccer is a working class sport in the rest of the world, but these poseur American fans (with their same "study abroad stories") think it makes them classy and cultured.
He's making fun of the hipster wanna be euroweenie douches you'll find in Boston and NYC and Ivy League bars.
I know a bunch of these goofballs. The type that pronounce Barcelona "Barthelona" because they've been there and know the secret pronunciation.
I dunno, I had trouble reading much of the article and I did try.
You do know where the thecrete pronunthation comes from, don’t you?
One of the Spanish kings had a thpeech impediment. The arithtocrathy thtarted imitating him as a way of thucking up, and it gradually worked its way down into thociety.
Very thtrange.
Brit hooligans are cultured? They’re just below bigfoots on the IQ scale.