It was only my third ever visit to Yates's in Tamworth, visit one was an early date with Shelley after I'd been down the Blues and the only other visit was to watch a v*lla v Blues televised derby match when Staffordshire constabulary had designated Yates's as a Blues pub.
The pub's not great, your standard Yates's offering that you will find in many 'entertainment' areas of towns and cities throughout the UK. I couldn't fault the beer, my Greene King IPA was a lovely pint and whilst the make over of the pub was long overdue I can only assume that Laurence Llewellyn Bowen chose the velour wallpaper. What were you thinking dah-ling?!!
The Brazil v Chile match was showing on the pubs many tv screens however the place was still decked out in England flags. I couldn't help thinking of what might have been..
The pony tailed barman wasn't paying attention as he passed me and gave me an elbow to the ribs that former footballing hard man John Fashanu would have been proud of. He was full of apologies but it wasn't the dig to the ribs that upset me, it was more the fact that later on he proudly boasted to the pub's manageress that they'd taken more that day in coffee sales than they had in beer sales !! What's happened to the British pub goer?!!
The pints (and wine) were going down at an impressive rate and we stopped to see the home nation go through on penalties before deciding that seeing as we'd started drinking at 1pm and it was now nearly 8pm it was probably a good time to go home especially as a loud group of hens out on a hen night had just arrived. I bet they weren't drinking coffee !!
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