Why I Stuck a Flare Up My Arse for England review – when macho match-day exuberance goes viral

Underbelly Bristo Square, EdinburghAlex Hill’s boisterous one-man show teases a trade-off between the belonging and camaraderie of football fandom and personal stabilityFootball is coming home for Alex Hill’s one-man play for a third and final season on the fringe and you can see why it has proved such a hit. The setting is the delayed Euro 2020 tournament, the one in which Gareth Southgate’s England beat ancient rivals Germany, then Ukraine and Denmark before facing Italy at Wembley.For an obsessive fan such as Billy Kinley, someone who lives for football and its attendant culture of booze and thuggery, it is an excitement almost too great to bear. That is as close a reason as he can come up with for pulling down his shorts and shoving a flare between his bum cheeks on match day. It is an act of exuberance that turns him into a viral sensation. Continue reading...

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