Football fans actually tend to support football for varied reasons. These can be reasons like the love for the team, patriotism, love from birth, from possession, the bettors, or the diehards.
It is generally noticed and known that people of the Western world (Europe and the Americas) support football in a more concerned manner than other fans around the world given the reason why their stadiums are always at full capacity on march days.
They are fans who support football from childhood. This could be for varied reasons like that of possession given that they were given a jersey of the favorite sports team while they were young, or like the cases in the Western world were they were regularly taken to the stadium on march days to watch their favorite team play. It could equally be a case where they had a favorite athlete in the given team. Such fans are equally very passionate and patriotic towards the team they support, and they remain with the team no matter the situation the team is facing, even in the case of relegation. They are equally diehards.
They are equally fans who support teams because they have an interest to protect in the temporal success of that team. These fans are known as the bettors. The fans support a party game or side with the wish that the outcome of that game should equally result in what they staked, so that they will inturn have a financial benefit from it. These fans rationally chose successive side that make games go according to their predictions. They put games which they predict will win for them, and become diehards in games they predicted.
There's also a category of cunning fans which people know as plastic fans or fake fans. These fans have no patriotism, no specific sports team, and are simply 'pretenders' in fan sports fan hood. This category of fans change sports teams every season and moments depending on their level of success. They are fans whom in each new season, they chose a new successful team to support, and behave like they have been with the team from the on set. These fans usually chose their teams at mid seasons given that at that period the success of the team is guaranteed. These fans are always with different successful teams and they celebrate every end of season in different sides, and are usually refered to by onlookers as 'confused'.
Patriotic fans just as the diehards, are also citizens of their given countries that give in their all in support their national sides during international games.
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