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Here on The Food Chain we’ve been finding out what sports fans around the world like to eat whilst watching matches.

Whether you’re watching football, American football, cricket or rubgy, for some spectators it seems the food is as important as the action!

Here are some of the tastiest offerings we’ve found.

If you've ever watched a football match on a cold night in the north of England you will know how important a hot pie, chips and gravy are to making it though the 90 minutes.

Author and journalist Jack Peat says that food at football stadiums was a “bland and beige affair” for many years, with items like pies, sausage rolls, and chips on the menu, but that’s changing.

In 'The Great Pie Revolt' Jack searches out local gems across England as he travels to away matches as a Doncaster Rovers supporter.

Now, football clubs are expanding their food offerings as a way of bringing in more revenue.

Altrincham FC in south Manchester has built a “fan zone” with options going beyond what was on offer a few years ago.

On the night The Food Chain visited, the team were playing Stoke City Under-21s, and three curries and a selection of craft ales were being advertised.

John Coyne, co-director of Altrincham FC, says: “We know we compete for spend against local establishments. So when we can get people through the gate, that secondary spend is all important to us.

"I think we are quite unique as recently we've been working with local producers, local farms and running special campaigns, whether that's a gourmet burger, which we did last week against against York City.

“At our level that secondary spend might give you the competitive edge. It sounds quite crude, but that's what we're here to do with generate more revenue, which ultimately you than allows you to invest on the pitch. And if you've got better players that you've got a bigger chance of promotion.”

Meat is all-important at both football and rugby matches in South Africa.

In northern provinces like Limpopo and Mpumalanga the signature aroma of shisa nyama can be caught outside football stadiums.

Mo Allie is a journalist based in Cape Town.

“Shisa nyama is the Zulu term for large pieces of marinated meat that are cooked over hot coal," he says.

"On the side, there's some spicy vegetable relish coupled with some cooked solid white maize meal. It is normally sold by women known as ‘gogo’, or grandmothers, for whom a big match day provides a valuable source of income.”

For rugby fans around South Africa, it’s a barbecue or a braai, on an open field close to the stadium.

Mo says: “These fans would normally gather on an open field close to the venue, where one can not only experience the characteristic smell of the scorched meat, but also the white smoke wafting in the air can also be seen from a distance.”

In Pakistan there’s only one thing on the menu at a cricket stadium, biriyani.

The steaming rice dish filled with vegetables and often meat, depending where it is made, is a staple across the country, although debates rage about which city cooks it best.

For journalist Kunwar Kuldhoon Shahid, who has lived and breathed cricket since a young age, there’s a technique to eating it whilst trying to watch the game...

“When a fast bowler is bowling and has a long run up - and Pakistani fast bowlers have long run up - you wait until the delivery is done and you can have two or three spoonfuls of biriyani during that time," he says.

"So that's the ideal technique.”

The tailgate is more of a feast outside a stadium, rather than food to be enjoyed when watching a game.

Barbecue aficionados take over parking lots near American Football matches, and relish the social occasion.

The tradition took off post-1945 in the US and today people set up grills on the back of their vehicles and cook on ever more elaborate outdoor kitchens.

Reporter Ben Derico visited the tailgate at a match just outside San Francisco between the University of California and the University of Miami.

There’s one tailgate everyone is trying to grab a slice of, Brandon’s burgers.

Brandon says: “These burgers I've been making for 20 years. The meat has a bunch of different spices. There's onions, garlic, peppers. A bottle of beer in it. There’s siracha, all kinds of stuff in the meat.”

It’s a gourmet tailgate.

There’s one big point of contention in the tailgating community – is it about the eating or the cooking?

Some people spend days pre-preparing food, others bring shop bought snacks and enjoy them together.

But what most people here seem to agree on though is the most important thing about the tailgate is the people you spend it with.

Whichever side of the debate you fall on, Ben says, you're always welcome at the tailgate.

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