| The various leagues in the world have become a | | | | sometimes lives are lost or people being maimed for |
| source of revenue generation for countries that knows | | | | life. |
| how to manage the organization of such leagues. The | | | | We are even now getting to the influence this fans |
| fact that billions of dollars can be generated from this | | | | have on the players. Football must be watched and |
| leagues has also brought in the use of television and | | | | watching football brings in money, therefore the |
| satellite means of broadcasting to different part of the | | | | players must live up to expectation and justify the |
| world. | | | | huge amount paid on them during transfers, hence the |
| This has created more awareness for the followers | | | | awareness of the large fan base of a team, pushes |
| of the game and has also increase the addiction of | | | | the players into desperation and issues of the use |
| people to the round leather game. This fans, therefore, | | | | drugs arises. Though football and footballers have tried, |
| has three basic sides and I choose to call them the | | | | in the sense that the scandal of drug use being |
| good, the bad and the ugly sides of football fans in the | | | | experience in athletes, in such games as the sprint and |
| world. We are all witness to how football supporters | | | | also weight lifting, swimming and cycling suggested that |
| have greatly contributed to the development of the | | | | footballers have been much more discipline than the |
| game, as a matter of fact, we now have organized | | | | other athlete, but for how long will this continue or last? |
| forms of supporters club, duly registered by the | | | | With more money in football, there will always be the |
| government and guided by rules and regulation. | | | | risk of capacity management, therefore anything can |
| The existence of supporters in the game of football | | | | or should be expected from player trying to live up to |
| has succeeded in generating great income for all the | | | | their fool capacity. |
| countries that have been opportuned to host any of | | | | The ugly part of football can be traced to situation |
| the competitions involving football. Many countries have | | | | were many football fans can go to the extent of |
| hosted the world cup have not only been able to | | | | beating up Coaches of their team(s), whenever they |
| improve the facilities in the country, but they have also | | | | loose a game. Many football fans have also lost their |
| been able to generate in come not only from gate | | | | lives due to attack on rival fans. Imagine an argument |
| takings but also from the various tourist locations | | | | between an Arsenal FC fan and a rival fan, and the |
| visited by the football fans who came into the country | | | | Arsenal fan, stab the rival fan on the head just |
| for the game. Even the aviation industry cannot be left | | | | narrowly missing the eye and the brain cavity of this |
| out, since people will have to move from one country | | | | fans (this happened in Nigeria). Remember the death |
| to another. Employment have been created by this | | | | of many fans in various stadia of the world with the |
| and for some, football has become a money spinning | | | | collapse of structures due to the over admission of |
| venture, this is just to mention a few of the | | | | fans into those stadia, well these are issues in football, |
| advantages of football fans. | | | | that cannot be neglected. |
| Mentioning the good side of anything simply suggest | | | | But even with all these issues, football or soccer can |
| that there must also be the negative or bad side to | | | | never, ever loose its flavour and will always loved then |
| such a thing but imagine a situation were football fans | | | | nobody should deny us the joy of supporting the |
| will travel all the way to watch matches and there is | | | | greatest game in the world. Even with these three |
| always incidence of clashes between rival fans, | | | | sides football is still the greatest game. |