Define: Supporter

[kwsaint]

Someone who backs the team or moans when the going gets tough?

[Griffo]

Everyone at West Brom made it quite clear last night that they backed the team and Adkins.

[Turkish]

In the word of the great Bobby Robson

 

What is a club in any case?

 

Not the buildings or the directors or the people who are paid to represent it.

 

It’s not the television contracts, get-out clauses, marketing departments or executive boxes.

 

It’s the noise, the passion, the feeling of belonging, the pride in your city.

 

It’s a small boy clambering up stadium steps for the very first time, gripping his father’s hand, gawping at that hallowed stretch of turf beneath him and, without being able to do a thing about it, falling in love.”

[Saint Garrett]

1. A person who approves of and encourages someone or something (typically a public figure, a movement or party, or a policy).

2. A person who is actively interested in and wishes success for a particular sports team.

 

3. A person who sits behind a keyboard and moans 24/7.

[Olallana]

Please moan if you´re not happy with performances etc, but NEVER humiliate your own players/manager/staff by mocking them during games.

 

THAT´s not a fan from my point of view.

[Lighthouse]

Define: Customer - A person or organization that buys goods or services from a store or other business. nb. The customer will usually expect the quality of goods or services provided to reflect the amount of money paid.

[Miltonroader07]

Somebody who pays hard earned money to watch the team and has the right to comment

[CHAPEL END CHARLIE]

If you give over your hard earned cash and go to games then you must be a 'supporter' in every sense of that term that makes any sense. If the OP is of the opinion that to be a real supporter you must also hold the same set of views as some other supporters do re the running of their club, then he is very much mistaken.

[Halo Stickman]

Whether they back the team or moan when the going gets tough, a paying supporter is someone on whom the club depends.

 

Whether they back the team or moan when the going gets tough, a non-paying supporter is simply someone expressing an opinion; they are of little or no consequence to the club.

[Junction 9]

In the word of the great Bobby Robson

 

What is a club in any case?

 

Not the buildings or the directors or the people who are paid to represent it.

 

It’s not the television contracts, get-out clauses, marketing departments or executive boxes.

 

It’s the noise, the passion, the feeling of belonging, the pride in your city.

 

It’s a small boy clambering up stadium steps for the very first time, gripping his father’s hand, gawping at that hallowed stretch of turf beneath him and, without being able to do a thing about it, falling in love.”

 

That last line strikes a chord with me, that's exactly how it happened. It was at Craven cottage though, not the Dell.