A person who is actively interested in and wishes success for a particular football team.
30,000 English football supporters descended upon their city
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- A fan has been jailed for three years for his part in a fight between football supporters.
- The average football supporter spends £805 pampering his partner throughout the year.
- There is little concern over the behaviour of the football supporters, with none of the visitors considered potential hooligans.
- The anticipated honour for the 23-year-old Dubliner can be partly attributed to an Internet campaign by Irish football supporters throughout the world.
- He was more a football supporter than a rugby fan.
- There were a lot of football supporters who had got off the ferry.
- He has been fined for punching a rival football supporter in the street.
- The band has a huge fan base who are more like football supporters than music fans.
- His family were keen football supporters.
- Now a city director, he said: "There is no archetypal football supporter."