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Premier-league football shows bring about a cross section of people together –and have unconscious way of uniting people. When strange people of the same club meet, they feel proud and share it together.
The initially stranger-man’s appearance would no longer be there but rather friendship or brotherhood. It would probably augur well for people in relationships or just dating –because of the mere fact that having similar interests -as same football clubs created a stronger bonds than not.
Development-wise, premier league football has helped provide employment -both as self-employed or employed by someone else. This is in form of club products and services sold to the general fan population, and the viewership, respectively.
Uganda now local businesses in that area like Katumwa sports shop for foot ball club products, GTV and DStv as service providers. Within them, there are both employees and employers.
And in one way or the other, government gets revenue for development projects, which would not have been the case without strong demand for premier league viewing and fanning in the country.
Unfortunately, over the last two years there are has been about three cases of deaths linked to football. The latest in Kampala was regarding brothers struggling over which game to watch on the same television set. They fought until one stabbed the other to death.
Another was in Jinja Town, where an Arsenal fan -thinking that it could a habit for the club to lose after it went down by one goal for Spurs, collapsed and died. It was unaffordable for him to see his team lose in presence of his girl friend.
The funny bit was that Arsenal Football Club went on to win the game 3 to 1. Perhaps, the lady did not do enough to call for patience or might have belonged to another football club. And may be if he was alone (without girl friend), he would have held on to see his team win. May their souls rest in Eternal peace.
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Jacob Waiswa
A qualified community psychologist with professional packages in community participation & intervention/prevention, mental health assessment, change management, HIV/AIDS & Mental Health, project planning & management, research & presentation, stress management, basic counselling, forensic science, and organization health.
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nguyentruong | Dec 21st, 2009
thank for your information
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