Imagine if Argentina hadn’t scored in the 85th minute of this summer’s World Cup semi-final.
England were 1-0 up and only five minutes away from reaching their first World Cup final in 60 years – and pub landlords across the country were moments from securing their biggest trading day in recent history.
Publicans would have been scrambling to get extra staff behind the bar for finals day on July 19.
Every table would have been booked out and the beer gardens would have been crowded out.
But then Argentina scored – twice. I don’t mean to remind you of the heartbreak.
But, as former chief
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