When ultras control the terraces: social inclusion and exclusion at the stadium in St. Petersburg

occupying a certain place if something is amiss
Verbal warnings, threats
Interference in personal space, physical actions

Practices of maintaining ‘the order’

do you mean?» I asked.
«You are wearing the wrong clothes.»
And I’m with the kid, he is 11, so it’s obvious he cannot go alone.
«We can let the kid in,» he said.
«Are you joking right now?»,
«No,» he said.
It turned out that the colours of our clothes were the CSKA ones. How was I supposed to know? It was a Bosco Sport jersey with Russian national colours, but it didn’t matter (…).
When I watched the records of the match, it's beautiful, the performance, very beautiful. But we were strangers there.
But the point is that I bought the ticket for this terraces, it cost a thousand rubles, and they are going to tell me what kind of shirt I must wear?

Anne (50 years old), a spectator
Personal communication, 2018

the Virage. And now you can easily get in. There were interviews before, like three years ago.
Max: Yes, there were ideas! Nowadays there are also interviews, but it’s more like a formal procedure. There are a lot of schoolboys there and girls for some bloody reason.
Alex: It’s just… people go to the stadium not because of football itself or because of the fan culture, but rather because of the fashion

Alex (24 years old) and Max (25 years old),
Zenit ultras, personal communication, 2014

a season ticket to the Virage?
Mary: Well, because I m not a bother to anybody on my terrace and it is me who is responsible for myself. I have a season ticket on the second level in the front row. It’s all the same, but it is not the Virage and nobody will tell me to go away because I am a girl.
The times I was at the Virage, nobody told me anything, but then again, there are guys there, my friends, and I don’t want them to worry whether I was expelled or not.

Mary (25 years old), a Zenit supporter
Personal communication, 2018