Armchair Cricket Council
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The Armchair Cricket Council (ACC), an underground Australian Cricket Fanclub. Founded in 2004 as a rival to the circket-wing of the popular Australian sport fan network The Fanatics. The ACC, comprised of previously high ranking members of The Fanatics, withdrew from the organisation amidst a whirlwind of ideological dispute. The dissidents who went on to form the ACC came to consider The Fanatics as wet patriots, a nationalism only proud while drunk at sporting events. For their part The Fanatics could not condone racism other than in the sporting context, expelling the members and labelling their "extreme militant patriotism" as a "tad overboard". This Extremsim was demomstrated by the open and public support that the ACC gave to the 2005 Cronulla riots, an ethnically based mob riot in Sydney, Australia. It is widely recognised that members of the ACC are intimately connected with the Australian Neo-Nazi organisation the Patriotic Youth League (PYL), though it is alleged by some that the ACC is in fact a front organisation for the PYL.
[edit] Links to Neo-Nazism and Facism
Work by the attentive anti-racist group Fight Dem Back (FDB) have uncovered a series of links that the ACC has with Neo-Nazi and Fascist organisations in New Zealand and Australia, including the Holocaust-denying Adelaide Institute and the Sydney Institute [citation needed]
