Scientists spend more than £400,000 in taxpayers’ cash to find why football fans get drunk

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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That is £399,995 too much! Mindless people who consider getting drunk goes with whole match experience!

Because football is so fucking boring they need to get drunk to forget all about it lol

Because they drink alcohol, like any other sports fan in the world. Hope this helps

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Idiots that's why

Wow, 1. Because they drink to much so the alcohol content affects them. 2. They want to. 3. Majority of football fans are male = majority of full time workers = their way of relaxing. And them 3 points were free. £400,000 fucking pointless waste of money

Meanwhile in the land of the real living ... NHS without sufficient amount of proper PPE springs to mind ... but they would find it hard to get 4k funding ... let a lone 400k !! 😠😠😠

I suggest watching NUFC - be quicker and a lot cheaper !

Could of told them that for free, they are idiots.

Easy to spend someone else’s money especially when charities are now in dire circumstances.

It's a momentum effect. That's all

Money well spent. Should have spent it on why bananas aren’t straight.

I could have gotten paid half that and told them why...they are a$$holes who like to drink.

Disappointed I wasn’t asked

Ffs. I give up.

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