Topic ID 1987
I'm soon to be moving to Hertford. What's the best pub in the town to watch football and, in particular, the mighty Spurs?
Reply ID 25927
Woolpack
Reply ID 25929
Or White Lion, which is also v. good in other ways, footy not being my thing. Just follow the noise of shouted profanities and you'll easily identify which establishments have sky tv. he he
Reply ID 25936
Try the Bridge House - The landlord is a Spurs supporter as well
Reply ID 25939
BridgeHouse or Woolpack is full of our fellow Spurs fans mate.
Reply ID 26038
Woolpack is definately one of the best football pubs if not THE best :)
Reply ID 26820
The Lord Haig is run by Spurs landlord. The Ram seem to show all sports, and even Wine TV sometimes ;)
Reply ID 26823
The landlord of the Lord Haig is a Gooner
Reply ID 26857
quote:I beg to differ and I think Mr Webb would too!
Originally posted by Wrapper
The landlord of the Lord Haig is a Gooner
Reply ID 26865
quote:Wrapper said 'a Gooner', not 'a Goner' Fish Wife. [:)]
Originally posted by Sheila W Heelquote:I beg to differ and I think Mr Webb would too!
Originally posted by Wrapper
The landlord of the Lord Haig is a Gooner
Reply ID 26871
quote:I've just been told that I have been mentioned on this thread! Eeeeek. Sorry Berbatov, I think you may have confused me with someone else.....but now that I'm here.....
Originally posted by Berbatovquote:Wrapper said 'a Gooner', not 'a Goner' Fish Wife. [:)]
Originally posted by Sheila W Heelquote:I beg to differ and I think Mr Webb would too!
Originally posted by Wrapper
The landlord of the Lord Haig is a Gooner
Reply ID 26872
quote:I think you are confusing Wine TV with the general level of whining that goes on when the football is on. If they show all sports, how come they have never shown intermediate shin spiking or combi sports such as Steeple Chase Golf? These are big hits on U.S. TV.
Originally posted by andleicester
The Lord Haig is run by Spurs landlord. The Ram seem to show all sports, and even Wine TV sometimes ;)
Reply ID 26936
Does anyone have any information on which will be the first Hertford Pub to show sport in (HD) High Definition? Will it be worth watching after a few pints?
Reply ID 26953
quote:What's wrong with a bit of Claret then?
Originally posted by andleicester
The Lord Haig is run by Spurs landlord. The Ram seem to show all sports, and even Wine TV sometimes ;)
Reply ID 26959
Duncombe Arms always has Wolves games on, though I saw them beat Man U at the Great Eastern[:D]
Reply ID 26961
Just come back from the Lane and wished I had watched in the Pub as no beer as European game and can't smoke at all in the ground and game was awful. Gggggggrrrrrrrr!!! Mr F Uming.
Reply ID 26964
quote:Oh my god, another one quoting that English life is dead! Everyone listen - boyyyycott the town in your drovves, avoid anything English, even speeeeaking it. The Greeeeasy Spooooon is dead, the pub-football talk is dead, allll hope is dead. Dalek speak. "Your only hope is a huge loan, your only hope is a huge loan. Come, seek and speak to America. We will adopt you, we will adopt you, weeee willl adopt you. Exterminate, exterminate exterminate!!!!!!!!!!!!" Naaaa sorry Fish, Americanisms alone, keep yours away from Hertford thanks.
Originally posted by Fish Wifequote:I think you are confusing Wine TV with the general level of whining that goes on when the football is on. If they show all sports, how come they have never shown intermediate shin spiking or combi sports such as Steeple Chase Golf? These are big hits on U.S. TV.
Originally posted by andleicester
The Lord Haig is run by Spurs landlord. The Ram seem to show all sports, and even Wine TV sometimes ;)
Reply ID 26985
quote:Oh Berb, you don't know what you're missing. Apparently there's a league forming (OK it's in Billericay, where else?) that is entirely British and is trying to involve people who would otherwise either not fully understand sport or not be interested in it in its purest form. Perhaps true afficiandos would find it a bit strange, but I quite like the idea of combining sports together. There was some talk about melding rugby with golf and cricket with polo. Sounds strange, but would make wonderful TV. [;)]
Originally posted by Berbatovquote:Oh my god, another one quoting that English life is dead! Everyone listen - boyyyycott the town in your drovves, avoid anything English, even speeeeaking it. The Greeeeasy Spooooon is dead, the pub-football talk is dead, allll hope is dead. Dalek speak. "Your only hope is a huge loan, your only hope is a huge loan. Come, seek and speak to America. We will adopt you, we will adopt you, weeee willl adopt you. Exterminate, exterminate exterminate!!!!!!!!!!!!" Naaaa sorry Fish, Americanisms alone, keep yours away from Hertford thanks.
Originally posted by Fish Wifequote:I think you are confusing Wine TV with the general level of whining that goes on when the football is on. If they show all sports, how come they have never shown intermediate shin spiking or combi sports such as Steeple Chase Golf? These are big hits on U.S. TV.
Originally posted by andleicester
The Lord Haig is run by Spurs landlord. The Ram seem to show all sports, and even Wine TV sometimes ;)
Reply ID 26987
" There was some talk about melding rugby with golf and cricket with polo. " Uh!? I think I've just had a stroke....
Reply ID 27008
quote:Amazingly I feel empathy with you. We suffered the same a few weeks ago, when I went to the Emirates Palace with a couple of pals for the first time to watch the ECL qualifier against Dynamo Zargreb, we even left the Tollington on Hornsey road an hour before kick off to soak up the atmosphere in the ground with a few beers, only to be told (once inside the ground) no beer on Euro nights!!!! What really p--sed us off was when watching the 1st ECL away game a couple of weeks later, seeing all the fans in their seats supping beer!!!!
Originally posted by Wrapper
Just come back from the Lane and wished I had watched in the Pub as no beer as European game and can't smoke at all in the ground and game was awful. Gggggggrrrrrrrr!!! Mr F Uming.
Reply ID 27020
Apparently it is a UEFA edict but it only applies to European games in England. I had a couple in the White Lion near Silver Street before the game (or maybe 6!!!) but I only wanted a beer at half time. My God, I am agreeing and bonding with a Gooner!!!
Reply ID 27022
I like football, but being Scottish I get few opportunities to really enjoy the game. That's why it's so much fun to throw (big, heavy) bottles at Celtic supporters. Karmic resonance or something they call it. There are few places so bright as Glasgow in it's enlightenment. To stay on-topic, I generally don't like 'sports boozers'. Gawping at the telly is a feeble excuse for not manufacturing something inappropriate to say to your colleagues
Reply ID 27024
quote:Why would you throw bottles at Celtic supporters?
Originally posted by Herbert Lemons
I like football, but being Scottish I get few opportunities to really enjoy the game. That's why it's so much fun to throw (big, heavy) bottles at Celtic supporters. Karmic resonance or something they call it. There are few places so bright as Glasgow in it's enlightenment. To stay on-topic, I generally don't like 'sports boozers'. Gawping at the telly is a feeble excuse for not manufacturing something inappropriate to say to your colleagues
Reply ID 27026
Because they are there...... It was a joke - kinda... Seriously, I come from a ridiculous line of West Coast Scottish presbyterian mental folk. Mercifully, my Dad married a Catholic (I call her Mummy) and we moved to England and I got, more or less, better.... To football. My first attended football match (aged 6) was a Rangers v Celtic game at Ibrox. My Dad stood with his arms over my head to shield me from the missiles. It was what they did 30 years ago.... I've been to 4 'Old Firm' games in my life and they are everything they are sold to be. Venomous. Bewildering. Exhillerating. It is impossible to stand amongst 50 thousand people passionately braying (about something which is so fundamentally meaningless) and not be affected by it. It's easy to make light of the sectarian nonsense that goes on in Glasgow and Western Scotland but I'm afraid it defines many peoples existence there. Enough!
Reply ID 27031
I went to a Rangers V Tottenham friendly at the start of last season Herbert and your fans couldn't have been friendlier. We even went in a pub outside the ground that a copper had told us not to go in. We walked in and the whole pub went quiet but once they realised we were sort of normal, they were great. My most enjoyable moment which I will take to my grave is 50,000 people singing Land of Hope and Gloty. Wow!!!
Reply ID 27036
(Momentarily back form the pub owing to washing machine installing event. It's an automatic washing machine but I still have to be here :o) - I just wanted to make that clear) Anyhoo, for the Scots it's all too easy to play the friendly pissed up 'see you Jimmy' monkey nonsense. It helps deal with the fact that Stephen Hawking is our best centre forward.
Reply ID 27040
You've lost me there
Reply ID 27041
That wasn't a deliberate post. I dozed off and it was the cumulative effect of me banging my face off the keyboard.