Chris_OGrady

It certainly is! Great for picking up recommendations. I didn't even realise there was a Farringdon Tap until you mentioned it, which happens to be right by my office. Will be paying it a visit next time I'm down! Also got a load of other London ones on my list from here too. Untapped is also great fun. Me and @westernpark could do with some more friends on there!

Third night on the trot down the Fox Club in Barrow since it opened on Tuesday. A great addition to the village!

Exactly, it’s all about getting it back into your routine! I was pretty good from Jan to May and then it’s gone to shit this summer. Summer is always going to be hard with the weather. No excuses from September onwards!

I need to get back into running after eating and drinking far too much this summer. I was hoping to do the Cambridge half marathon in March but it's already sold out! Anyone recommend any good 10k/half marathons back end of this year?

I was in there last night and was thinking exactly the same thing!

York as a base, and then you've got lots of options for day trips: Harrogate, Knaresborough, North Yorkshire Moors, Whitby, and Robin Hood's bay.

Just got back from Belfast yesterday. Managed to tick off a fair few of the pubs: John Hewitt, Duke of York, Kelly's, Maddens, The Sunflower, The Garrick and the Crown. Such a good pub city with a great variety of pubs. I struggled to even get a seat in some places on a Monday night! Seemed to be slightly more expansive beer options than Dublin too, but still quite a bit less than you get here. Certainly not the prettiest city, but there's a buzz about the place and it seems to be thriving from tourism atm.

Done some great pubs over the last week: Wednesday: White Lion Rempstone Thursday: Ye Olde Mitre Holborn London Friday: Colmore Birmingham Saturday: Navigation Barrow, Pinsent and Swan Mountsorrel Sunday I had my homebrewed American Pale Ale from my Pinter which I've bought recently. Was very pleasantly surprised! In desperate need of a few weeks off so I don't end up looking like Alan Brazil... Then it's back on it in Belfast and Southwold

It's definitely worth trying it out if you haven't been. There's a small bar and seating area inside and little beer garden out the back. Nice atmosphere and good draft beer selection- It was pretty full when I went. It does feel a bit intimate and cliquey inside with the clientele, but everyone seemed friendly enough.

A load of Abbeydale Deception in the Navigation Barrow Friday night. Down in London on Saturday. Went to The Auld Shillelagh in Stoke Newington which was pleasant enough, but one of these hype Guinness places that you have queue up for 15 mins to get a beer. Went to Pinsent in Mountsorrel for the first time today which was also decent but deffo prefer the Swan!

It's one of their "Partner Pubs". Red Lion is the same.

I think I prefer Adnams' keg beer to their cask beer. They used to do one called Spindrift that I really liked but I don't think they do it anymore. If you're still there today head to the Randloph just down the road in Reydon- great beer garden!

Fair play Gareth. He can hold his head high, but he's not the man to take us to glory. I've found myself getting increasingly frustrated by him over the last few years, but it's nice that we can look back on his reign fondly rather than it dragging onto an acrimonious end. As others have stated above, the only tournament I can't fault him for was Qatar 2022. We put in some good performances and were beaten by a strong France team. 2018 he did well too, and I think in hindsight Croatia probably had a slightly better team than us. 2021 was a huge missed opportunity and ultimately the one where we should have cashed in. It was where we started to have an excess of attacking options and Southgate's negativity and limitations became apparent. He played such a negative team in that Italy final and we were poor as soon as we took the lead. With it basically being a home tournament, we should have won it. This tournament has been a complete smokescreen and it's a miracle he didn't end up the same way as Roy Hodgson after the Slovakia game.

the "golden generation" only really had a top squad/team in 2004 and 2006. In the 2002 world cup vs Brazil we had Danny Mills, Trevor Sinclair, Nicky Butt and Heskey all starting... In 2010 we had Upson starting at centre back...

Now that we failed to shithouse the tournament, it would have been better in hindsight if we did crash out to Slovakia and Southgate given his marching orders. Unfortunately the smokescreen has been created again and we'll be wasting one of our best generation of players with a flawed manager. Bang average/underwhelming/under-performing sides have won the Euros before (Greece 2004, Portugal 2016, Italy 2021) but I imagine they weren't lead by a failed Middlesbrough manager.

Euros semi final and I'm hardly even arsed. Don't think I've even got out my seat once for an England game so far this tournament. It's just very bizarre. Doom and gloom aside (apologies), a win in 90 mins I think will galvanise the public and hopefully myself!

Where did you end up going?

This is purely based off the occasions I watched him play for Roma in the Champions League and Italy in major tournaments. He never seemed to have any influence on the games. Most notable moment I remember is him elbowing some Arsenal player in the face for no reason and getting sent off

Totti

I’m in for a few hundred

Just been in York for a few days with work. Got to be one of the best pub per capita places in the country. An incredible volume of good establishments with proper beer selection. Most pubs have a minimum of 5 cask options which are usually local/independent offerings rather than the usual boring stuff (Abbot Ale, London Pride etc). Brew York has got to be one of the best taprooms I’ve visited too- food was amazing. Even on Tuesday the pubs and city were lively.

yeh great venue but unfortunately run by M&B

My old student union! Yeh its the best area of town there- great pubs, bars and architecture.

Shame about the Monday! There is a decent cluster of traditional pubs at the bottom of Hardman Street (Georgian Quarter) - Grapes, Fly in the Loaf, and Roscoe Head. The Bridewell is good closer to the centre of town. Baltic Quarter is more crafty, but reckon it will be dead there on a Monday (could be wrong). Ship and Mitre is good the other side of town, but I think you are better off being in the Georgian Quarter.

Great debrief! Seems very similar to my experience.