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Watching strippers makes football stars play better, claim boffins

- By RACHEL SPENCER

SPURS fan Roisin Hunter says she would happily whip off her clothes if it meant Tottenham won every time.

The 32D stunna loves going to White Hart Lane to watch her favourite team and says she’d happily bare her boobs before the match to spur the lads on.

Roisin, 22, said: “I can see why watching something erotic can help guys perform better on the pitch.

“If they’re horny then they’re going to be hungrier to win and get the game over as quick as they can so they can go and knock one out!” SPORTSMEN will be at the top of their game if they watch STRIPPERS before playing. Boffins have discovered that staring at erotic dancing makes men feel aggressive and much more determined to win.

The research, published in the journal Hormones and Behaviour, showed that testostero­ne levels increased after watching a video of women stripping.

The conclusion­s were made after studying rugby union players but also applies to football stars.

Performanc­e

And sports coaches are already using the method to help boost performanc­e in training according to the study.

Scott Drawer, head of research at UK Sport, who carried out the study on 12 rugby players, said: “Putting yourself in an aggressive frame of mind is important to how you perform.”

The players watched clips from sitcom The Big Bang Theory, designed to represent humour, starving children in Africa for sadness, exotic dancing for eroticism, UFC fighter Brock Lesnar training for motivation and rugby tackles for aggression.

They then took samples of saliva from the players which revealed testostero­ne levels increased after watching the erotic, humourous, aggressive and training videos, but decreased after watching the clips of starving children.

The players in the study also said they felt they had trained better after watching the erotic and aggressive videos.

Christian Cook, a Sports Scientist at Imperial College London, who led the research, said: “Testostero­ne is a feelgood hormone and most people perceive this and perhaps perform better because they feel better.”

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