MORE than £400,000 in taxpayers’ cash is being spent to find why football fans get drunk. Scientists want to see if matches create a “special space” for binge-drinking. The university boffins have …
MORE than £400,000 in taxpayers’ cash is being spent to find why football fans get drunk.Scientists are spending more than £400,000 in taxpayers’ cash to discover why football fans get drunk and whether matches create a 'special space' for binge-drinkingIt will fit supporters with boozecams to record them drinking to celebrate — or to drown their sorrows.
But Sam Packer, of the TaxPayers’ Alliance, said: “It hardly requires thousands of pounds for brainboxes to examine why footie fans enjoy a tipple.”most read in uk newsGREATEST BRITONSPark closes after 3,000 ignore lockdown and pack into it as Brits defy NHS pleasTwo prison workers at same jail die after suffering coronavirus symptomsThey will also study fans’ boozing as they watch their favourite team on the telly.
Alcohol FC was given a grant of £401,126 from the Government-funded Economic and Social Research Council. Dr Richard Purves, of the university’s health science faculty, said: “Policy makers won’t know how best to deal with football related drinking unless they have a better understanding of why people do it.”
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