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Martha has contributed to Discovery’s Why We Hate, produced by Steven Spielberg, as well as numerous BBC and Sky TV features in the UK, such as BBC News, Sky News, Sky Sports News, and Radio 4’s Women’s Hour, World at One, and PM programmes. Her research has also featured in The Telegraph, The Guardian, The Independent, International Business Times, The Daily Mail, The Sun, Haaratz, Der Speigel, and many other outlets.


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    • Independent (UK) - Third of adults ‘feel pressured to drink alcohol while socialising’

    • The Mirror (UK) - Three in 10 Brits have felt pressured into drinking alcohol when socialising

    • BBC Sport (online) - Drug-related offences in football could mean five-year bans

    • Telegraph (UK) - Habitual cocaine use by football fans is a problem the sport needs to face

    • Athletic (online) - Special report: The ‘flagrant’ use of cocaine at football grounds

    • Joe (Online) - ‘I did three grams of coke during a game’: Inside football’s problem with Class A drugs

    • Independent (UK) - Police call for cocaine users to be banned from football matches after Euros mayhem

    • Police Oracle (UK) - Staffordshire and Wiltshire removed from special measures after making improvements

    • The Telegraph (UK) - Revealed: 'Alarming' cocaine use at Wembley for England vs Czech Republic

    • Police Professional (UK) - Cocaine use fuelling new wave of football violence

    • Daily Mail (UK) - Egos inflated by cocaine and fan tribe culture create a lethal combination

    • Telegraph (UK) - Louts – and cocaine – are ruining the sports-watching experience

    • Police Professional (UK) - Cocaine-fuelled hooligans to be banned from football matches

    • Telegraph (UK) - English football to launch social-media blitz targeting 'idiots' amid surge in crowd disorder

    • Guardian (UK) - The rise of disorder at football: why is it happening and what can be done?

    • The Irish Times (Ireland) - What is driving rise in disorder at Premier League matches?

    • BBC Sport (online) - Football police chief says cocaine a 'contributing factor' to increased disorder

    • Independent (UK) - ‘You have to plan for a siege’: Police should have predicted Wembley storming, experts say

    • Mail Online (UK) - From jumping on tables to taking their tops off: Experts explore the science behind football fan behaviours ahead of the Euro 2020 final

    • Vice (International) - Cocaine Makes Football Fans More Aggressive, Say Football Fans

    • Daily Star (UK) - 'Racism isn't going away' Expert in DAMNING verdict on football abuse

    • Mail Online (UK) - A lack of police, untrained stewards, complacency from football's powers-that-be, idiotic fans... all combine to leave the beautiful game in the gutter

    • BBC Mundo (Argentina) - River - Boca en la final de la Copa Libertadores: ¿por qué los hinchas de ambos equipos se odian tanto?

    • Cosmos (Online) - Football violence driven by tribal loyalties

    • UOL Noticias (Brazil) - Violência nos estádios está ligada a comportamentos humanos primitivos.

    • Business Standard (India) - Desire to protect fans lead to football hooliganism

    • Haaretz (Israel) - What Soccer Hooligans and Terrorists Have in Common

    • International Business Times - How understanding football violence could help the fight against terrorism

    • New York Post (USA) - Soccer fans have the same mentality as terrorists, study claims

    • The Sun (UK) - A YOB FOR LIFE Football hooligans behave like TERRORISTS, Oxford University academic claims

    • The Mirror (UK) - Millions of drivers miss out on road trip memories as they focus on SatNavs and traffic

 
    • PsyPost (online) - Awe-inducing raves are linked to transformative experiences and social bonding, study finds

    • DJ Mag (online) - Raving and psychedelics create “meaningful social bonds”, study finds

    • Mixmag (UK) - Raving changes our brains and creates meaningful bonds, according to study

    • The Telegraph (UK)- What watching England play football does to your body

    • i (UK) - Why it's better to watch the Euros in a crowd, according to scientists

    • The Telegraph (UK) - Revealed: the surprising softer side of football hooligans

    • The Sun (UK) - HUG A HOOLIGAN Football hooligans would rather HUG than fight, study finds

    • Sun (UK) - FANFARE New generation of Premier League fans are NOT as die hard – with 20 per cent not even supporting a team

    • Guardian (UK) - Forget winning streaks, it's the bad times that really fuse us together in football – and in life

    • Mail Online (UK) - Fans of Manchester United, Liverpool and Chelsea are 'not as loyal to their fellow supporters as those of less successful football clubs' as seeing your team LOSE strengthens ties

    • Telegraph (UK, Print) - Shared 'suffering' by fans of the worst Premier League teams creates 'strong social glue', study finds

    • Le Temps (France) - Les plus mauvais clubs ont les meilleurs supporters, indique une étude britannique

    • Independent (UK) - Football clubs urged to help ‘stressed’ football fans chill out and avoid serious health risks, study shows

    • BBC News Videos (UK) - Football 'not just a game' for devoted fans

    • Mail Online (UK) - The secret of football hooliganism: Violent fans are 'socially bonding', researchers say

    • La Vanguardia (Spain) - El vínculo social es la causa de que existan los hooligans

    • Punch (Nigeria) - Study shows social bonding key cause of football violence

    • XinHuaNet (China) - Study shows social bonding key cause of football violence

    • Rzeczpospolita (Poland) - Tribal community of fans

    • The Sun (UK) - MIND GAMES Fans of poor Premier League teams develop a ‘Band of Brothers’ mentality similar to SUICIDE BOMBERS, study reveals

    • Mail Online (UK) - Why fans of perennially-poor football teams share traits with suicide bombers: Band of brothers' mentality can drive extreme behaviour

    • The Telegraph (UK) - Football defeat inspires fans' loyalty just as much as victory, psychologists find

    • The Mail, North West Evening Mail (UK) - Psychologists work out why we stay loyal to our football club - even in defeat

    • Independent.ie (Ireland) - Psychologists work out why we stay loyal to our football club - even in defeat

    • Mail Online (UK) - Why we can't help supporting the losing teams: Football fans' loyalty is made STRONGER by defeats

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