Women come out on top in one of the fiercest battles in the home - over the TV remote control, a survey has found.
Sport languishes at ten per cent.
Sport v Friends TV sport was also blamed as one of the triggers for household rows, according to the research, commissioned by Sky Digital. A third of women said they would not be above bribing their sofa-mates in order to watch Friends , and a similar number said they would resort to emotional blackmail to get their own way. Men often tend to use their dominant position in the family as their first trick for obtaining the remote, but they are not above being sneaky when all else fails. Women and children make up for their lack of physical dominance by putting more thought into how to get it, so they tend to be more manipulative, persuasive or sneaky depending on what works.