最新一项调查显示，英国每个男人每年花在观看体育比赛上的费用为4021英镑，超过该国女性在购买服装上的支出。

    据《每日镜报》12月12日报道，进行本次调查的是信用卡业巨头MBNA公司，调查结果显示，英国男人平均每周要在观看体育比赛上花掉56.85英镑，其中包括赴现场观看所支持球队比赛的门票；晚间在小酒馆内欣赏大屏幕电视上播放赛事实况时的开销以及购买体育方面的DVD的花费等。而该国女性平均每周花在购买服装上的金额为46.67英镑。另外，该项调查结果还显示，每个英国女性每周用来购物的平均时间为2.5小时，而该国男人每周"奉献"给观看体育比赛的时间要比这一数字多1小时。

    MBNA公司的发言人保罗·劳勒说：“看来我们英国的确是一个为体育而疯狂的国度。”

    The average British man spends ?4,021 a year watching sport - more than women spend on clothes shopping.

    Season tickets, live events, nights in the pub watching the action on big screens and sporting DVDs cost lads up to ?56.85 a week, a new survey by credit card giant MBNA revealed yesterday.

    The average woman spends ?46.67 on clothes every week. That works out at ?114,061 in an average lifetime - ?74,957 less than men shell out annually on sport.

    The lender's study also found the average woman spends two-and-a-half hours a week shopping - an hour less than a man devotes to sport.

    MBNA spokesman Paul Lawler said: "We are a passionate nation when it comes to sport."