They have been trapped in limbo for a few years but they have got a bright future with their own ground on the horizon - feasibly they could compete on a equal-footing with Southampton or Portsmouth - they've got the fan-base.
Not only that, "I got my first fan letters for that design, " Matsunaga recalls, clearly still delighted.
Potter fans got a shock when fan site Mugglenet claimed it had been shut down by a court after it had broken copyrights against Warner Brothers and JK Rowling.
It's like - I'm the fan, I got every right to do whatever I want.
Though I was not a sports fan when I got to Duke, I was swept up in the Cameron Craziness, as are the majority of Duke students.
We're just learning the full story of how avid fan Shane Bennett got what may be the rarest version of Samsung's flagship phone through an unusual chain of events.
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Nat Gertler , host of a Peanuts fan site, got curious about the system and reverse engineered it, showing how you can play around with the images yourself, applying different sale tags and features.
And then the fan-fiction professor got up and began to make direct references to "The Man" who had commodified Potter.
If you are a fan, have I got a store for you.
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"It's hard to take in, " one fan said as he got in his car, taking off his cap and throwing it on the back seat.
Billboard companies in the Denver area got a boost in September when fan groups bought space on the boards clamoring for Tebow to replace Kyle Orton as the Broncos starting QB.
He got into a shouting match with a fan during the playoffs, and he never suffered the media, repeatedly refused to answer questions.
For all of his Americanization he changed his name to Bill from Liam, drove a Dodge and became a football fan, my father never got over leaving Ireland.
As the twin towers were coming down, he got a call from Susan Baumgardner, a fan, a woman he had briefly encountered 10 years before.
So I played soccer in sixth grade, and followed it like a typical American sports fan up until my oldest son got really into Premier League soccer.
The film had lots of fan boy excited but the audience never got much broader.
At least one fan in the trial bar thinks I got this one wrong, but the judge in the Kananian case was so incensed by the behavior of lawyers at Novato, Calif.
One 14-year-old Bieber fan tried to get the password, but got confused and gave up.
She called herself a "big fan" of Kate Moss - and had got there at 6am.
"I am a big fan of his but the feedback we've got is that he's already signed for somebody else, " said Redknapp.
He became a "fan" of many of the companies on Facebook, which got him discounts.
Originally posted online as a riff on the Twilight fan-fiction series Masters of the Universe, the story soon got picked up as an eBook, spawned two sequels and sold over a quarter of a million copies online.
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Playing on Xbox 360 consoles in a single elimination tournament, some of the biggest names in pro wrestling got their game on before WrestleMania in front of a live audience at the fan axxess event. 2K Sports also live streamed the tournament through Twitch for all fans to watch from home.
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This noise consisted mainly of the high-pitched whirr of the CPU fan, but it was barely noticeable -- to the point where if you got distracted, you'd have to re-focus your concentration just to make out the sound.
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But there's some marketing things we don't do, we're not reaching out to the fan the way golf or a lot of other sports do, so we've got our work cut out for us -- but that doesn't mean it can't turn around.
But overall what we got from an extremely long and ponderous event was nothing that would make anyone but the most dedicated Apple fan go "wow".
When I got to my assigned room, it was hot, smelled like disinfectant and had a view of a large exhaust fan.
Di Canio was once a member of a hardcore right-wing fan group that follows his hometown team Lazio -- the club where he started his career and later got into trouble when he returned, when he made straight-arm salutes to the crowd in 2005.
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