football fan
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The natural state of the football fan is bitter disappointment, no matter what the score.
It is well documented that I am a lifelong football fan. My love of the British game started with the 1966 World Cup.
So my dad raised me, and he's a huge football fan.
I support Fulham because I live two minutes away from the ground, but I'm not a massive football fan. Cricket is the game I'm obsessed with, to be honest, and also despair of.
Football fans share a universal language that cuts across many cultures and many personality types. A serious football fan is never alone. We are legion, and football is often the only thing we have in common.
Nixon was a crook, of course, but he was also a rabid football fan - and he knew the game, which still astounds me, but I have always had a soft spot for him because of it.