Everything started with a term stair : A quantitative analysis on how the tabloid press describe football supporters

The purpose of the study was to examine if there been a change of attitude in sports journalism in the reporting on supporter-related issues in Swedish elite football after the new police method that was applied in 2019, called the terms stair. We have analyzed the differences between two football seasons, 2018 and 2019, with a quantitative content analysis on Sportbladet and Sportexpressen, which is the two biggest papers when it comes to sport. he most interesting result we got from our study was that there has been a shifting in the attitude from sport journalist concerning football supporters. Another interesting result was that the word ”hooligan” is rarely used to describe football supporters