Scientists discover pizza calms anxious fans when watching football from best football match ever played Watch Video

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It’s good news for anxious footie fans - after scientists revealed pizza can reduce nervousness during a game.<br/><br/>While enduring a compilation of nerve-wracking football moments, Pitch Side podcast host, Theo Baker, had his blood pressure and heartrate monitored.<br/><br/>His Galvanic Skin Response (GSR) - a test which determined his emotional state - was also closely checked.<br/><br/>Without pizza Theo’s levels were up and down, spiking several times - however they were consistently lower once he started to smell a pizza bubbling away in the oven.<br/><br/>And his feelings of calmness were maintained once he finally got to enjoy a slice of the stuffed crust salt and pepper chicken pizza.<br/><br/>Professor Oli Buckley, from the University of East Anglia, who worked on the study with the UK’s number one selling frozen pizza brand, Chicago Town, said: “Pizza and football go hand-in-hand.<br/><br/>\