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The English Premier League draws global television audiences, and Michael Owen and David Beckham have become worldwide superstars.

Part of the reason comes from Briton’s love of the sports.

Many British football fans enjoy gathering in pubs to talk about their favorite teams and players and to watch games together.

The Winchester Hall Tavern in London is one of the most famous football pubs in Britain. The large old Victorian pub is equipped with five TVs and a big screen. It’s so large that it never gets packed.

Partly due to the excessive drinking in the pubs, Britain also produces some infamous hooligans, who have become an increasing headache for police offices in Europe.

Germany: According to 1996 report to the European parliament, German fans tend to come from the middle class of society, and can be divided into three broad types.

The “consumer-oriented” fan will sit in the stands or seek a quite spot on the terraces and just wants to see good games.

The “football-oriented” fan dressed in his team’s colours and badges, is a member of the supporter’s club, stands on the terraces and supports his club through thick and thin.

The “adventure-oriented” fan will change his spot on the terraces from game to game and wants to see something happen, whether it has anything to do with football or not.

Italy: Football culture is an extended form of town .

France: Football in France has never attracted the numbers of live spectators, or inspired such passionate support, as in other European countries. Despite the current popularity of the sport, even major cities cannot have more than one team, and matches attract on average only a third of the spectators of their equivalents in Italy, England and Spain.

The interest has increased largely due to the successes of French teams in international competition and accompanying large scale investment in the “promotion” of football.

The revival of popular interest in football and the increase in attendance at football matches have led to a diverse group of fans.

The majority of spectators are both from the working class and the middle class.

Some have even described the fans in French as: “with the exception of the upper classes, all of society is found in the stadium”.

Football craze

In recent years more and more people have been drawn to football. Football fan clubs and associations have been set up across the country. In fact, football is becoming such a focus of interest that even football fans are becoming celebrities.

Football fans, form a special informal social group and their emergence “boils down to people’s desire to belong to something”.

Football satisfies this desire of belonging, as fans can organize themselves into groups to support a team through good times and bad.

The reason that football had become so popular was that anyone could be a supporter. You do not have to take exams to be supporter; you even don’t have to be able to play football.

The competitive nation of the game gives fans a sense that they are part of a special social group. With its fierce rivalry and mass participation, football is unique. It is the world’s No. One sport. The huge size of the field also gives a chance for the players to be creative and for the spectators to look on in awe.