EFFECT OF LOSS OF FOOTBALL GAME ON FAMILY RELATIONSHIP

CHAPTER ONE

INTRODUCTION

1.1 Background of the study

Football is a group of team sports in which players kick a ball to score a goal in various ways. Unqualified, the term football usually refers to the most popular kind of football in the area where it is used. Association football (also known as soccer in certain countries) is a sport that is usually referred to as football. Gridiron football, particularly American or Canadian football, Australian rules football, rugby football, either rugby union or rugby league, and Gaelic football are all examples of gridiron football [2003, Reilly]. Football codes are the different versions of football that have differing degrees of common roots. There are many references to traditional, ancient, or prehistoric ball games that were played in various areas of the globe [football history, 2018]. Football's modern rules may be traced back to the 19th century standardization of these sports in English public schools [Bailey, 1995]. The British Empire's growth and cultural impact enabled these football regulations to expand to regions of British influence outside of the Empire's direct authority [perkin, 1989]. By the end of the nineteenth century, different regional codes had emerged: Gaelic football, for example, had purposefully integrated the rules of local traditional football games to preserve their history [Bale, 2002]. The Football League was established in 1888 in England, and it was the first of several professional football leagues. Several types of football evolved into some of the most popular team sports in the world throughout the twentieth century [Bale, 2002].

A family is a group of individuals who are connected through consanguinity, affinity, marriage, or another connection in human society. Families exist to ensure the well-being of its members and society as a whole. As members grow and participate in the community, families should provide predictability, structure, and safety [Donald, 2010] Children learn socialization for life outside the home in most cultures, and families serve as the main source of connection, caring, and socialization for humans [Lander, 2013]. Furthermore, as the fundamental unit for fulfilling the basic requirements of its members, it offers a feeling of limits for completing activities in a secure environment, idealizes the development of a person into a functioning adult, transmits culture, and guarantees humankind's continuity with knowledge antecedents. Most family organizations are classified as matrifocal, which includes a mother and her children; patrifocal, which includes a father and his children; conjugal, which includes a wife, her husband, and children, also known as the nuclear family; avuncular, which includes a grandparent, a brother, his sister, and her children; or extended, which includes extended parents and children who live with other members of one parent's family. Spouses, parents, grandparents, siblings, sisters, sons, and daughters are all examples of direct family members. Aunts, uncles, cousins, nephews, nieces, and siblings-in-law are examples of extended family members. Depending on an individual's particular connection with them, they are sometimes regarded members of the immediate family, although the legal meaning of "immediate family" differs [Family law in the year 2020]. Incest laws, such as the incest taboo, govern sexual interactions between family members. The goal of genealogy is to trace a family's ancestry back through time. In family economics, the family is also a significant economic unit. The term "families" may be utilized to construct more inclusive categories like community, nationhood, and global village.

1.2 Statement of research problem

Problems may arise amongst family members, including partners, spouses, parents, children, siblings, friends, and other significant individuals in your life. All families and partnerships go through tough periods, and it's natural to have difficulties and disagreement in personal connections. When it comes to football, though, particularly when each member of the family is a supporter of a different team, it's a different story. In reality, when two members of a family make a wager on their separate football teams, one wins and the other loses, forcing the losing side to pay back whatever bet was made. This may lead to conflict between the two family members. Another example is when a family member's football team loses a game, the fan may vent their frustrations on the rest of the family by shouting at their sister, refusing to eat, and so on. These issues may get overpowering at times. Frequent fighting, disputes over big and small matters, a breakdown in communication, furious outbursts, avoidance, and physical confrontation are all signs of family and marital difficulties. These topics, as well as others, will be addressed in the research.

1.3 Objectives of the study

The primary objective of the study is as follows

1.     To find out the effect of loss of football game on family members relationship

2.     To find out why members of the family transfer aggression whenever the club they support looses a match

3.     To find out how to improve the relationship among family members

1.4 Research Questions

1.     Does loss of football game have effect on family members relationship?

2.     Does members of the family transfer aggression whenever the club they support looses a match?

3.     How can relationship among family members be improved?

1.5 Significance of the study

The significance of this study cannot be underestimated as:

l  This study will examine  Effect of loss of football game on the family relationship

l  The findings of this research work will undoubtedly provide the much needed information to government organizations,  football club and academia.

1.6 Scope of the study

This study examines the effect of loss of football on family relationship. hence, this study will be delimited to  Chelsea football fan in Lagos state.

1.7 Limitations of the study

This study was constrained by a number of factors which are as follows:

 just like any other research, ranging from unavailability of needed accurate materials on the topic under study, inability to get data

Financial constraint , was faced by  the researcher ,in getting relevant materials  and  in printing and collation of questionnaires

Time factor: time factor pose another constraint since having to shuttle between writing of the research and also engaging in other academic work making it uneasy for the researcher

1.8 Operational definition of terms

Football: any of various forms of team game involving kicking of football

Family relation: relatedness or connection by blood or marriage or adoption. kinship, relationship