The Alan Winfield Trail: Pubs On The Mackworth Estate

After the glamour comes the grit.  It’s all well and good larging it around Birmingham with some Premier League bloggers and basking in the (metaphorical) sunshine of shared posts but Dick and Dave want some old skool estate pubs. With the Southworths currently spending their hard earned dollars in Leek, there is a bun fight…

Pre Noon Drinking

Paul Bailey has put forward the opening gambit after a Beer & Pubs Forum day on the lash day of visiting heritage pubs last week. You can read Kentish Paul’s cracking blog here and he has already delivered two top posts on the Second City. Myself, Prop Up Nick, Retired Martin, Stafford Paul along with…

Rifles, Dragons, Football And Belper

I’m a real novice compared to the likes of Duncan, for example, who racks up lots of football grounds accompanied with beer, which seems like a good plan to me. Of course, the prospect of watching Reading and St Mirren every week is enough to drive anyone to drink so Scotland’s finest is preserving his…

Shrovetide

I reckon Derby and it’s surrounding towns/villages are some of the most ‘football’ areas in the country.  Yes, there is the cricket and a decent basketball team too but it’s one of the most ‘football’ counties in the country… However, Ashbourne is an anomaly as doesn’t appear to have a traditional football ground as such,…