Influences on fan regulation

[KFS]

Good afternoon fellow foxes,

I'm currently writing a dissertation on the influences on football fans which have brought change to the way we watch football today. Many opinions on this board have moulded my decision to start the project, so I thought this would be the best place to come to ask a question. I'm hoping a lot of you agree with me when I say that football has changed dramatically since it's early forms and that fans being influenced by a range of factors. My question to you is: Which factors do you think have been the most influential in the creation of the modern football fan?

Thank you for you help, and I look forward to reading replies!

Steve

[Jagdinho]

The more modern a Stadium is, the less atmosphere i think which effect the way we watch it.

Police seem to make you feel like a criminal because your a football fan. Sometimes policing is so over the top.

[KFS]

The more modern a Stadium is, the less atmosphere i think which effect the way we watch it.

Police seem to make you feel like a criminal because your a football fan. Sometimes policing is so over the top.

Thanks a lot for that mate, would you mind if I quoted that in my project?

[The Doctor]

I would say the corporatisation of the sport has been most influential, because it's had such a knock-on effect.

Turning it into a product rather than a game I think results in the game being marketed more towards families than the late teens-early twenties male that was the stereotypical football fan for so long. I'd say it's a fair generalisation to say that the two groups have drastically different priorities in what they want out of the "match-day experience" (oh how I loathe that term), and by catering for families you do risk alienating the older style of fan.

Those that remain meanwhile are made to feel like criminals because of the whole anti-standing stuff and the way the stewards deal with it.

[acooling08]

The 'modern' football fan is more likely to be middle class and older due very high ticket prices. Hence the quiet, everyone seated modern stadiums.

[Webbo]

Sky TV has changed football more than anything in the last 30 years, for better and for worse.

Football was in decline before Sky made it fashionable again, the money has enabled clubs to build new stadiums and sign high profile foreign players.

It's also lead to higher tickets prices, and games being moved to different times and days.

[DB11]

Which factors do you think have been the most influential in the creation of the modern football fan?

Increase in revenue can make stadiums and experience more nice eg. VIP tickets so it's more of a day than the 90 minutes of the game

Socialisation for children growing up. Not just football but everything in general. More affluent so no fighting at games etc

Football's become more middle class than ever, and so modern football fan isn't actually more modern than in history, the fan just has more money and so the way they approach it has differed.

[Libertine Dream]

I think ticket prices have changed the type of person who attends football and therefore it is much more like Rugby in behaviour of fans and atmosphere created. Obviously Modern Stadia worsen atmosphere and the fact that standing is frowned upon means football fans have quietened down and often now just turn up, watch the match and go home again leading to a reduction in noise, people controlling themselves and in many people's eyes ruining football.

Football was a working class sport which meant it was less refined, now it's becoming a lot like Rugby and therefore it seems certain standards have to be met.

Edit: I think the change in football can be seen in refereeing decisions and a change in rules, the tackles that flew in reflected the people who traditionally watched football and what they wanted from football, now as football changes the rules change and it's becoming a sport that needs to be too perfect.

Just a question: What degree are you doing?

[KFS]

I think ticket prices have changed the type of person who attends football and therefore it is much more like Rugby in behaviour of fans and atmosphere created. Obviously Modern Stadia worsen atmosphere and the fact that standing is frowned upon means football fans have quietened down and often now just turn up, watch the match and go home again leading to a reduction in noise, people controlling themselves and in many people's eyes ruining football.

Football was a working class sport which meant it was less refined, now it's becoming a lot like Rugby and therefore it seems certain standards have to be met.

Edit: I think the change in football can be seen in refereeing decisions and a change in rules, the tackles that flew in reflected the people who traditionally watched football and what they wanted from football, now as football changes the rules change and it's becoming a sport that needs to be too perfect.

Just a question: What degree are you doing?

Thanks to yourself and everyone else who have replied so far!

I'm still at Sixth Form actually doing Sociology A level, so the project aims to go hand in hand with that. I can also drag Leicester into it aswell as part of my evidence which is always nice