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."