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However, 
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it is not only the people who watch most
of their sport on television that are the fanatics. 
(2)
The real committed fans are those who follow their
team week in, week out, as they play around the
country. What, it could be asked, is wrong with that?
Is this not a harmless pastime that causes no one
any problems? Yes, it can be, but too often this
obsession with ‘your team’ can take over from a
proper concern with other important issues of
employment, family, relationships and even money.
We all probably know of some ‘sports nut’, to whom
the success or failure of their chosen team or
individual sporting god matters too much. 
(3) 
Often
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belonging to a supporters’ club or unofficial
grouping takes priority over relationships that would
appear to be more important in an individual’s life,
for example, a wife or children. 
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