Live-streaming: will football fans continue to be more law abiding than music fans?

The Fans United will Always be Connected: Building a Practical DTN in a Football Stadium

Football stadia present a difficult environment for the deployment of digital services, due to their architectural design and the capacity problems from the numbers of fans. We present preliminary results from deploying an Android app building an ad hoc network amongst the attendees at matches at Brighton and Hove Albion’s AMEX stadium, so as to share the available capacity and supply digital s...

Football fans travel for season finale

Although much of the Hooding that had submerged nearly 80 percent of the Mexican state of Tabasco and parts of adjacent Chiapas earlier this month has subsided, the Notre Dame stu­ dents studying abroad in Puebla are working to reach out to the hundreds of thousands of dis­ placed civ ilians th a t rem ain homeless. “We w ere told th a t nearly 800,000 people have been dis­ placed in Tabasco an...

On passion and sports fans: a look at football.

The purpose of the present research was to test the applicability of the Dualistic Model of Passion (Vallerand et al., 2003) to being a sport (football) fan. Three studies provided support for this dualistic conceptualization of passion. Study 1 showed that harmonious passion was positively associated with adaptive behaviours (e.g. celebrate the team's victory), whereas obsessive passion was po...

Fans, homophobia and masculinities in association football: evidence of a more inclusive environment.

This article draws on 3,500 responses from fans and professionals involved in association football (soccer) to an anonymous online survey posted from June 2010 to October 2010 regarding their views towards gay footballers. The overall findings are that, contrary to assumptions of homophobia, there is evidence of rapidly decreasing homophobia within the culture of football fandom. The results ad...

More fans at any cost? Analysing the economic effects of the ratio of fans to non-fans in a customer portfolio considering electronic word of mouth