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Sportsman-Nechells

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I beleive the Sportsman is going to be featured in Sundays (29th August 04) Skys T.V. programme "Britains Hardest Pubs" at 10 pm.
 
O.K. Phil it,s sorted , i don,t know what to say really it,s very sad to see people like that maybe it,s caused by drinking to much cider, we all know that this is not the B,ham that we know and love. Dek
 
Dek

As you say, if the Sportsman is like that now it certainly has changed. I never remember It as what you would call a good pub, but there again I don't recall it being a cider house.

If thats what it is now then I have seen far worse ones. It looks reasonably clean and tidy for a pub of that ilk and cider houses do seem to attract all the nutters.

Lets face it compared to the Greyhound on Holloway Head the Sportsman looked like a palace.

Phil
 
Mike

I would think it was arrange beforehand to have all those nutters in the pub on the day of filming. On an ordinary day I can't even see the pub being that full.

Phil
 
Are you on about the sportsman round the corner from cato street north by the gas works?
 
Just had a look, I only asked as my uncle and aunt used to keep it, probably in the 1950's 56 onwards perhaps, they were Eno and Winnie two very large people and great fun. Can anyone remember them? they went on to Heathway I think it was called, it was a pub a bit like a bungelow all one level, it was near hodge hill common.
 
pmc1947 said:
Dek

As you say, if the Sportsman is like that now it certainly has changed. I never remember It as what you would call a good pub, but there again I don't recall it being a cider house.

If thats what it is now then I have seen far worse ones. It looks reasonably clean and tidy for a pub of that ilk and cider houses do seem to attract all the nutters.

Lets face it compared to the Greyhound on Holloway Head the Sportsman looked like a palace.

Phil
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Ahhhhhh, the Greyhound. Happy days back in the 60s.:sick:
 
i know the sportsman very well i used to work for ian mccormicks step dad back in 2003 and the cider used to burn holes in your clothes , you couldnt tip the waste away down the drain it had to be bottled and thrown away.and always a row going on in there.:)
 
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