Denna studie syftar till att ta reda på vilken form av gestaltning som är vanligast i de fyra största svenska tidningarna, Aftonbladet, Expressen, Dagens Nyheter och Svenska Dagbladet, när det handlar om fenomenet villkorstrappan. Studien grundar sig i en kvantitativ innehållsanalys av ett avgränsat dataurval. Den tidsperiod som undersökts är mellan 2019-04- 18 och ett år framåt till 2020-04-18. Sammanlagt 112 artiklar. Studien utgår teoretiskt från gestaltningsteorin, där inspiration hittats hos bland annat Holli A. Semetko & Patti M. Valkenburg, men även hos Jesper Strömbäck. Uppsatsen undersöker mediernas rapportering om supportrarnas respektive polisens roll i debatten om villkorstrappan, och även vilken typ av gestaltning artiklarna är uppbyggda av. Dessa gestaltningstyper är konfliktgestaltning, human interest-gestaltning, ekonomisk konsekvensgestaltning, moralgestaltning och ansvarsgestaltning. Därutöver syftar denna studie till att ta reda på om det finns några mönster i tidningarnas rapportering kring de två parterna i debatten om villkorstrappan, exempelvis om en viss tidning är mer supportervänligt inställd eller tvärtom. Studien visar att tidningarna framställer polisen på ett distinkt mer negativt sätt än de framställer supportrarna överlag, allra tydligast i det fallet var Expressen. Den vanligaste gestaltningstypen var konfliktgestaltning. Den vanligast förekommande huvudaktören i texterna var klubbrepresentanten.

This paper seeks to unravel the existing discourses within the Swedish football supporter movement, and their criticism towards the Swedish police authority and the implementation of a new strategy known as"Villkorstrappan". The strategy faced heavy criticism from the supporters’ clubs, calling it counterproductive and harmful. The Swedish football supporters’ union soon launched an initiative called "Rädda svensk fotboll!". Almost every supporters’ club affiliated with football clubs in the Swedish top flight, joined the initiative leading to nationwide protests both online, and in the stadiums. The theoretical framework consists of Norman Fairclough's three-dimensional model of CDA. In addition the paper seeks to examine the creation of collective identity in the movement, this by using Melucci's theory and Burke's rhetorical identification theory. The research material has consisted of texts produced by Swedish supporters’ clubs and of pictures of message-banners presented in the stands during games. The results revealed three main discourses within the supporters’ movement and the criticism towards Villkorstrappan: “The police is a threat towards Swedish football”; "Football as democratic, and belonging to the people''; and “The importance of the supporterculture”. Regarding collective identity, various findings indicated an increasing unity within the Swedish football supporter movement, when uniting against a common enemy. Overall the results emphasize the importance of the swedish football supporters’movement, as a democratic actor, as a social movement and as crucial to swedish football in general.

The purpose of this study is to investigate how the Swedish evening papers portrayed and framed the conflict between the police, football clubs and their fans. The conflict in question arose already in 2019 with drastic regulations from the police against clubs and fans to prevent violence, pyrotechnics and other illegal activities.  The method that was used in this study was a qualitative textual analysis. The study uses two different theories: agenda setting and agenda framing. Agenda setting focuses on what is salient in the news reporting while agenda framing focuses on how different topics are portrayed by the media. The analysis is based on 22 different articles from the Swedish newspapers websites of Aftonbladet and Expressen. These two are considered to be the biggest tabloids in Sweden, both well known for producing media in a sensationalist manner. We decided to define our selection of articles from a two week time-period surrounding the football derby in Stockholm between AIK and Djurgården on October 3, 2021. The reason for this selection was the aftermath of the game regarding the police brutality against the supporter group of Djurgården.  The result from the study was that both Aftonbladet and Expressen portrayed the conflict in a way that led to a public opinion sympathizing with the football supporters. A possible factor leading to this result was a lack of communication from the police authority towards the newspapers.

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.

Syftet med den här studien är att undersöka hur fotbollssupportrar konstrueras språkligt i svensk dagspress. För att göra detta jämförs representationen av olika deltagare i rapporteringen av Villkorstrappan-konflikten. Materialet för analysen består av 15 artiklar ur den rikstäckande dagstidningen Svenska Dagbladet. Studien tar avstamp i teorier från den kritiska diskursanalysen och den systemisk-funktionella grammatiken. De textanalytiska metoderna baseras på den ideationella metafunktionen. Analysresultaten ställs i relation till medieanalytisk och sociologisk forskning om supporterskap, ultraskultur och huliganism. Studiens primära slutsatser är att konstruktionen av fotbollssupportrar är ambivalent och formad av motstridiga diskurser. Polisen konstrueras som ett hot mot supportrar, samtidigt som supportrar representeras som en homogen grupp som deltar i illegala aktiviteter på läktarna. Jag argumenterar för att detta i förlängningen kan ha negativa konsekvenser för svensk supporterkultur och allmänhetens förståelse av den. / The purpose of this study is to investigate the linguistic construction of football fans in Swedish daily press. To fulfill this a comparison is carried out between the representation of participants in the news reports on the so-called Condition Stairs conflict (Villkorstrappan). The data consists of 15 news articles from the nationwide daily newspaper Svenska Dagbladet. The study draws upon theories from Critical Discourse Analysis and Systemic Functional Grammar. The analytical methods are based on the ideational metafunction. The results are discussed in relation to media analytical and sociological research on football fandom, ultras culture and hooliganism. The main conclusions drawn from the study are that the linguistic construction of football fans is ambivalent and shaped by conflicting discourses. The police are constructed as a threat to football fans, at the same time the football fans are represented as a homogeneous group participating in illegal activities in the stands. I argue that this could have negative impacts on the Swedish fan culture and the general understanding of it.