But instead of leaving, we just moved the session outside to the sidewalk. The customers who had come to hear music (instead of watch football) joined us outside.

With the law the way it is in England the landlord would be liable to phone the police and inform them of a bunch of musicians breaking the law outside his pub by playing in a place not covered by a licence to play music. Strange but true.

And before too long there'd be a policeman saying "Move along lads, I donm't want any trouble..."