Beer and sport go together like Wayne Rooney and older women, but too much loudmouth soup will cause your brain dura to shrink and pull away from your skull, which can be painful. Try our tips (none of which are exactly scientifically verified) to survive the day after.
The tried and tested method of eating before you start, drinking moderately and drinking a glass of water for every alcoholic drink helps prevent a hangover. But you won't drink moderately and you probably won't drink plenty of water, so make sure you eat.
Set up your bedroom so that everything is to hand when you wake up. Aspirin and water are essential, a beer if it's the weekend and a phone to call in sick if you simply can't face the prospect of work.
Here are some concoctions from around the world to get you over the hang.
The prairie oyster is a raw egg with Worcestershire sauce, hot sauce, salt and ground black pepper. Be sure not to break the yolk as it is this slimy sac that gives the cure its name. Add the other ingredients and knock it back.
Kvass is a popular hangover cure all over the former Soviet Union. It is a fermented drink made with rye bread that has been dried (and in some cases burnt) and then steeped in water before being bottled with sugar and yeast. Novelist Fyodor Dostoyevsky mentions it in one of his books, and if it's good enough for him, it's good enough for us.
The German method for sorting out your katzenjammer is eating rollmops - fillets of pickled herring with slices of onion or pickled gherkin inside. The Germans know their beer so their hangover cures should be given the benefit of the doubt.