R.Majewski Posted February 17, 2010 Share Posted February 17, 2010 Like many of you, I enjoy nothing more than a couple of beers watching Jeff read out the football results on Sky Sports News on a Saturday afternoon. However, I'm still searching for the perfect pub to do this in, and I need some help. I'll give a list of requirements for said drinking establishment and hopefully someone could offer me some assistance. Required: 1. Sky Sports News 2. Real Ale 3. A proper pub, not the Common Room (shudder) 4. Maybe a choice of papers to looks at whilst comtemplating bets. 5. No riffraff, I like to discuss important matters whilst watching the game - loud riff raff may break my concentration when deciding on who would win in a fight between a badger and a tapir -(it's the tapir by the way) 6. Jeff volume - desirable but not essential Can anyone suggest anywhere that might suit? preferably in the Town/Hillsborough/Walkley/Kelham Island/Crookes/Broomhill neck of the woods? Thanks in advance R.Majewski Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
millhouses24 Posted February 17, 2010 Share Posted February 17, 2010 Trippets sounds kind of similar to what you are after. I don't know about real ale but it does have quite a "non townie" feel to it, and although it isn't advertised there is a big screen with sports on it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
libuse Posted February 18, 2010 Share Posted February 18, 2010 I think I can offer an almost suitable suggestion; The Byron House is in Nether Edge, so fails on your geography requirement, but it has a few real ales (moonshine is on at the moment). I can't vouch for whether they are any good as they aren't my thing, but the guinness is lovely. There is perpetual sky sports news, and normally with Jeff-noise on a Saturday afternoon. You'll have to buy your own papers, but it is a generally riff-raff free zone on Saturday afternoons, although that does depend on what the early kick off match has been. It was packed to the gills with riff-raff the other week cos of the merseyside derby, but usually its fairly quiet. I would put money on there being someone in there who would enter the badger-tapir debate with much gusto, albeit possibly with little supporting evidence. All of the above relates to the larger room on the left hand side of the pub. There is a smaller room on the right but its frankly a different world. I think they burn wicker men. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R.Majewski Posted February 19, 2010 Author Share Posted February 19, 2010 Thank you for your kind reply. This Byron House sounds a wonderous place, moonshine is a particular favourite of mine. I've never had the opportunity to combine Jeff and Moonshine - (few have), I daresay they will go together like jelly and rabbit moulds. Alas, on the Saturday in question the location is key - a trip to Meadowhall (don't ask) is on the card for a vital mission, so Nether Edge could be a bus journey too far. I will however remember the Byron House for such days when time is not an issue. So it's back to the drawing board/Trippets (no real ale). It appears there is a glaring gap in the market here for a young landlord full of dreams and ideas, who could make approximately £12 every so often out of me if they were to supply me with Sky Sports News and real ale, somewhere near the tramroute. Does anyone else have any other suggestions? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fantomas Posted February 19, 2010 Share Posted February 19, 2010 So it's back to the drawing board/Trippets (no real ale). Don't know if you've been in Trippets since the refurb but they definitely have 2 or 3 decent real ales on. Jaipur last time I was in there. Don't remember much more! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dogbreath Posted February 19, 2010 Share Posted February 19, 2010 The Red Lion on Charles Street in town covers all your needs, or if you're in Broomhill you could try the Fox & Duck. The only problem at this time of year is that you might get some braying ex-public schoolboy wanting to put the 6 Nations rugby on instead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R.Majewski Posted February 19, 2010 Author Share Posted February 19, 2010 Don't know if you've been in Trippets since the refurb but they definitely have 2 or 3 decent real ales on. Jaipur last time I was in there. Don't remember much more! Holy Smokes, that could be worth a go! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R.Majewski Posted February 19, 2010 Author Share Posted February 19, 2010 The Red Lion on Charles Street in town covers all your needs, or if you're in Broomhill you could try the Fox & Duck. The only problem at this time of year is that you might get some braying ex-public schoolboy wanting to put the 6 Nations rugby on instead. I do love the Red Lion, I do tend to go in there a little too much though. I'll put both on the list - thanks Rugby?! What ever next? Tennis? So we have Definitive list of pubs with real ale and sky sports news and are riff raff free: -Red Lion -Trippets -Fox and Duck -The Byron House Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottf Posted February 19, 2010 Share Posted February 19, 2010 Fox and duck in broomhill should do for you then! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psyko Posted February 19, 2010 Share Posted February 19, 2010 Trippets sounds kind of similar to what you are after. I don't know about real ale but it does have quite a "non townie" feel to it, and although it isn't advertised there is a big screen with sports on it. the beehive dykes hall road n theres a bookies across the road £2 a pint anall on selected beers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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