Italians prefer football to sex

People searched for football twice more than sex: Survey

LONDON: It’s official. Italians prefer football to having sex. A survey carried out by Internet search engine Google has revealed that, reversing the trend prevalent in the rest of the world, Italians are more interested in football than sharing bed with their partners.

In fact, the participants searched for ‘football’ twice as often as for ‘sex’, according to the results.

“Our kids are simpler than their parents. They understand perfectly that a football derby, if you do not watch it, is an event that is lost forever. Love, however, is something you can do whenever,” Stefano Zecchi, a commentator for the Il Giornale newspaper, told The Daily Telegraph.

Google has also revealed what the preoccupations of Italy’s major cities are, highlighting the most-searched phrase per region. In Naples, ‘sport’ was the top, while in Bergamo there was a thirst for ‘gossip’.

The poll came after a survey by another portal that revealed “British women prefer being online to having sex” with their partners.