Champions League returns
29-Mar-2007 By Richard Ross
The sporting highlight of the next seven days must surely be the return of the Uefa Cham-pions League to our screens. From the Premiership,...
22-Mar-2007 By Iain O'Neil
Premier League responds angrily to claims that last week's foreign satellite football case has added to the confusion
England expects... better
22-Mar-2007 By Richard Ross
As the month of March draws to a close, it's time for the world's football stars to answer their countries' calls. On Saturday and Wednesday, the...
It's Six Nations crunch day
15-Mar-2007 By Richard Ross
On the sporting front, there's plenty to offer your guests over the next seven days. For starters, it's the final round of fixtures in this year's...
08-Mar-2007 By Garth Williams
This year's first ever Holsten National Pub Darts competition attracted more than 10,000 players, with nearly £10,000 up for grabs.Garth Williams...
02-Mar-2007
FACT says a total of around 600 prosecutions have been brought for using Sky domestic contract to screen football in pubs.
22-Feb-2007
Bolton Wanderers applies for licence reviews of five foreign satellite pubs around the Reebok Stadium
13-Feb-2007
Licensee gets 100 hours for showing on a domestic card.
Pie in the sky TV deals costly
08-Feb-2007
It is quite unnerving to find so many licensees still prepared to risk large sums of money to install foreign decoders when they have been told...
Cricket World Cup: Caley's All Rounders
02-Feb-2007
With two employees playing for Scotland in the Cricket World Cup, Caledonian Brewery's seasonal beer for March is All Rounder and features Ryan...
Cricket World Cup: TV guide
02-Feb-2007
If the British pub industry had put together an international cricket tournament to suit itself, it really couldn't have organised it any better than...
Cricket World Cup: get padded up!
02-Feb-2007
Cricket is, according to the latest survey, the third most popular sport to watch in a pub behind football and rugby. More than 30 per cent said they...
Rugby's Six Nations kicks off
01-Feb-2007 By Richard Ross
Rugby union takes centre stage this weekend, with the first round of fixtures of this year's Six Nations tournament. Rugby fans will be following...
Sell More, Save More category champions are out of the blocks
31-Jan-2007
The Publican's Sell More, Save More project is now fully underway, with our category champions out of the blocks and assessing our three chosen...
18-Jan-2007
Pompey licensees fear for takings after Portsmouth FC opens a 500-capacity beer tent
Football four in a double knot
18-Jan-2007 By Richard Ross
It's time for a mammoth weekend in the Premiership. This time around, there's not one but two mouth-watering ties. The Premiership's top four feature...
15-Jan-2007
Takeover talks for the Sports Cafe result in 'no satisfactory offer'
Six Nations: score with rugby
11-Jan-2007
Within the past year, England have flopped at football, been hit for six at cricket, and been tackled into touch in the rugby. These failures by the...
Premier League plans more action against suppliers
11-Jan-2007 By James Wilmore
The FA Premier League (FAPL) is planning further legal action against suppliers of foreign satellite equipment following proceedings launched last...
Seven days in sporting heaven
11-Jan-2007 By Richard Ross
Whether your guests are hoping to watch rugby or football in your pub, they'll be well catered for over the next seven days. Over the weekend,...
European rugby at its finest
11-Jan-2007 By Richard Ross
Following the footballing thrills and spills of the FA Cup last weekend, this time round rugby union takes a turn in the spotlight. It's round five...
Six Nations: see the big picture
08-Jan-2007
GETTING AN obscured view of the match behind one of your regulars shaped like a rugby second row can be a disaster for any of your customers. Imagine...
04-Jan-2007 By The Morning Advertiser
5-0, 4-0, or miraculously 4-1. Whichever result we achieved at Sydney this week, the English fans were superb, says Hoggie
19-Dec-2006 By The Morning Advertiser
So that's it, then, our hold on that lovely little Ashes urn has come to an end, for the next couple of years at least.
18-Dec-2006
Licensees could be allowed to screen "near live" games in their pubs next year.
12-Dec-2006
Premier League issues "no rights" letters from three more foreign satellite channels.
Hoggie's Down Under Diary
07-Dec-2006
In the third of a regular series, England cricket hero Matthew Hoggard gives his view on cricket, beer and life. This week he reports from Down...
Fantasy Ashes: Still time to sign up...
06-Dec-2006
High hopes followed by a disappointing last minute collapse - something which could describe any number of British sporting activities, but in the...
05-Dec-2006
It's almost impossible to explain the atmosphere of dejection in the England dressing room after our defeat in the second Test in Adelaide. We had...
Hoggie's Down Under Diary
30-Nov-2006
In the second of a regular series, England cricket hero Matthew Hoggard gives his view on cricket, beer and life. This week he reports from Down...
Hoggie's Down Under Diary
23-Nov-2006
In the first of a regular series, England cricket hero Matthew Hoggard gives his view on cricket, beer and life. This week he reports from Down...
The Ashes defence starts now
23-Nov-2006 By Richard Ross
The wait is finally over. The Ashes series between England and Australia is here. Out in Australia, Andrew "Freddie" Flintoff leads his band of men...
22-Nov-2006
In the second of a regular series, England cricket hero Matthew Hoggard gives his view on cricket, beer and life. This week he reports from the...
Fantasy Ashes: Last chance to enter a team before 1st Test
16-Nov-2006
You can feel the tingle of excitement in pubs across the country as the hundreds of teams already signed up to the Marston's Fantasy Ashes brought to...
LTC golf event pulls in £5,000
16-Nov-2006
As the nights draw in, one group of people have been clinging on to the last remnants of summer - those battling it out to be named the champion of...
Time for an Ashes fightback
14-Nov-2006 By Richard Ross
There are two words on the lips of every sports fan across the land. Say them softly. The Ashes. If ever there was a time to get right behind our...
Orkney spirit takes to the sky
09-Nov-2006
Highland Park single malt whisky is sponsoring two aircraft in the fleet of Loganair, the airline that serves the Scottish islands. Two Islander...
Flashes of inspiration
02-Nov-2006
Beer is Wychwood managing director Rupert Thompson's burning passion. Adrian Tierney-Jones meets the compellingly enthusiastic spirit behind...
19-Oct-2006 By Iain O'Neil
Two Portsmouth licensees who beat a prosecution for showing foreign satellite football last season have been caught in the act again. Derek Hopper of...
Champions League resumes
12-Oct-2006 By Richard Ross
The UEFA Champions League returns to our screens with round three of the group stage. From the Premiership, Chelsea, Manchester United, Arsenal and...
15-Sep-2006
The drinks industry has defended its sponsorship of major events after a call for the government to ban brewers from sponsoring live music and...
The art of mixing and matching
14-Sep-2006
The British used to be great mixers of beer. At the start of my journalistic career - neatly coinciding with my drinking career - I regularly ordered...
07-Sep-2006
Peter Coulson and a team of industry experts try to answer the "closed period" football screenings battle that's raging
Pathfinder curtails Sky to save £1.5m
31-Aug-2006 By Lucy Britner and The PMA Team
Pathfinder, Wolves & Dudley's managed arm, is set to save more than £1.5m on subscription fees after removing Sky from 130 of its pubs. The move...
23-Aug-2006 By Ewan Turney
Blackburn Rovers FC has blamed dwindling attendance figures on pubs using foreign satellite systems to screen closed-period games. Rovers chairman...
17-Aug-2006
A firm of London solicitors is offering to defend licensees against criminal prosecution for showing foreign satellite football. The firm,...
03-Aug-2006 By John Harrington
The 2006 World Cup was a "barbecue World Cup" - not a pub-visiting tournament - thanks to cheap off-trade alcohol. That is the view of S&NUK...
Football season preview
28-Jul-2006
Live football on TV will once again be dominated by Sky Sports with 43 Barclays Premiership games being screened over the first five months of the...
Freddie picks up drinking honour
20-Jul-2006 By John Harrington
Cricket hero Andrew "Freddie" Flintoff has been honoured with the All-Party Parliamentary Beer Group's Beer Drinker of the Year award. Flintoff, the...
Pubs sell 59 million extra pints during World Cup
13-Jul-2006 By James Wilmore
Convenient kick-off times and a "feelgood factor" among fans helped many pubs enjoy bumper sales during the World Cup.According to the British Beer...
