"Here, think how many pubs are only still open because of the footy? It's true. Sky sell their pub licence on that very point. That said, I prefer a quiet pub myself. Snag is, quiet means unviable. My local has a best end and a tap room with screens. Monday night, I am in the tap room watching the match. Friday night, Mrs Musket and I are in the best room, talking with friends."

And that, my friend, is the beginning of the end of live music, which has kept pubs viable FAR longer than 22 idiots have chased a bag of air up and down a field which would be better used to grow barley or hops.

I am with Shimrod!!!