The book traces the birth of the football fan as a distinctive, often even eccentric social type of Czech everyday life. The practice of regular attendance of football matches has its roots in the late 19th century. Its mass expansion took place in the interwar period. It was also at that time that the new forms "fanoušek" and "fanynka" became popular in Czech, and a rich journalistic, artistic and intellectual reflection of the phenomenon developed. The historical actors of this book are, in addition to the actual visitors of football fields and stadiums, also millions of those "who read the newspaper from behind", listeners of radio reports or consumers of fan commercial articles.