As the home nations' World Cup journies gets off to a flyer, new independent research commissioned by Riot Labs has revealed football fans' nonchalant attitude to laws in Qatar. Respondents were asked what rules they’d be willing to break if they travelled to Qatar, even if it meant facing being arrested or receiving a fine:
- 24% said they’d chant Sweet Caroline at the top of their lungs in public
- 16% said they’d get as drunk as they do in their local boozer
- 8% would have no issue with stripping naked and streaking if their team scored
- 7% said they’d openly vape in a football stadium
- 6% said they’d smuggle vapes into the country
Despite intensive media coverage on Qatar, of the 1,000 football fans polled, 50% admitted to not knowing one law in Qatar. A further 45% revealed they knew less than two laws.
