everton1987 Posted April 8, 2008 Report Share Posted April 8, 2008 My name is Matthew Gallo and I am a 3rd year Sport and Leisure Management student at the University of Brighton. I am currently conducting a dissertation on how American businessmen taking over English premiership football clubs has affected the players and fans of the clubs. I decided to conduct my research on fan forums such as this as the people on these forums understand football and therefore are very important to my work The information you give is totally confidential and the results will be posted on this forum as soon as they are completed. 1. How old are you? 18-25 q 26-35 q 36-45 q 46-55 q 56 –64 q 65+ q 2. What football team do you support? …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 3. What type of fan would you consider yourself to be? (adapted from Hunt et al, 1999) Temporary fan – Follow national team in World Cup or follow specific player and supported whatever team they play for Local fan – Support local team, suffer from geographic constraints. Devoted fan – Essential part of life, watch all the games on TV and go to games when you can Fanatical fan – core audience of team, verging on obsessive, people who paint body team colours or have ‘shrines’ to club, e.g. mass memorabilia Dysfunctional fan – Support is the primary for of self- identification, often leads to hooliganism 4. In your opinion do you feel that these teams have benefited from being owned by an American businessman/men? (Rate you answer on a scale of 1-10, 1 being not at all and 10 being a lot) Liverpool 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Manchester United 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Aston Villa 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 5. How would you rate the owners of these teams on a scale of 1-10 on how liked they are by the fans? (1 being not all and 10 being a lot) Liverpool 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Manchester United 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Aston Villa 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 6. What kind of an impact have the new owners of the teams that have been recently taken over had on the players? (Rate your answer on a scale of 1-10, 1 being very negative and 10 being very positive) Liverpool 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Manchester United 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Aston Villa 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 7. In what way do you believe the players from have reacted to the takeover? Liverpool Manchester United Aston Villa Very Positive Very Positive Very Positive Positive Positive Positive Negative Negative Negative Very Negative Very Negative Very Negative Unsure Unsure Unsure 8. To what extent do you believe that the takeover has been a positive step for the clubs taken over by American businessmen? Liverpool Manchester United Aston Villa Very Positive Very Positive Very Positive Positive Positive Positive Negative Negative Negative Very Negative Very Negative Very Negative Unsure Unsure Unsure 9. Over the past few weeks the topic of a supporters union running a football club has come up in the news. Do you believe this would be a more popular option with the players of the newly taken over teams? Liverpool Manchester United Aston Villa Very Popular Very Popular Very Popular Popular Popular Popular Unpopular Unpopular Unpopular Very Unpopular Very Unpopular Very Unpopular Unsure Unsure Unsure 10. On a scale of 1-10 to what extent do you believe that money being injected the newly taken over clubs has caused players in general to ‘up their game’ for the fear of being replaced? Liverpool 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Manchester United 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Aston Villa 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Thank you for completing my questionnaire Matthew Gallo Researcher University of Brighton mg14@brighton.ac.uk Other_fan_questionnaire.doc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aaron Posted April 8, 2008 Report Share Posted April 8, 2008 to get more of a better answer to those questions you would have been better asking liverpool, united and villa fans. We are owned by English, and one american has a few shares. Good luck with your work tho. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
everton1987 Posted April 9, 2008 Author Report Share Posted April 9, 2008 to get more of a better answer to those questions you would have been better asking liverpool, united and villa fans. We are owned by English, and one american has a few shares. Good luck with your work tho. I am trying to get a range of opinions from other fans as well as clubs owned by Americans. Thanks for the feedback though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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