A survey of 2,000 bar customers watching World Cup, Champions League and English Premier League games revealed that 59 percent of women correctly identified the offside rule compared to 55 percent of men.

But only 33 percent of women correctly identified the uniforms of the 20 English Premier League team's compared to 80 percent of men.

In the survey for the pub chain Walkabout, 75 percent of the women questioned admitted their interest soccer was motivated to attract men, while 38 percent of men said that they ''preferred a partner with a love of the game,'' according to The Times of London.