Teenager dies during a drinking game

London: A British teenager allegedly died today after consuming two pints of vodka during a drinking game, a media report said.

17-year-old Louis Buxton, a promising footballer, was said to have been involved in a drinking game before being driven home ill, The Sun reported. "He went to sleep then his snoring stopped and an ambulance was called," his father Gary, a resident of Croydon of South London, was quoted as saying by the British tabloid.

Gary said that his son, a sixth-form student, was responsible and "didn't have the amount of vodka some say."

"One of the lads said he had downed two pints of neat vodka. Louis was a really nice lad, the team joker. He'll be missed." said his coach Carl Norman. Floral tributes were paid to Louis, often dubbed as "common room king", by his friends, while one of them wrote online "Friends blame themselves. It's making everyone think twice about drinking."