There's a school of thought that we've come across, that pubs aren't the best places to watch sport. To many people, they conjure images of boozed up, angry, shouty, small-minded, football fans providing a stream of ignorant commentary to accompany the action. And in case you haven't noticed, most of our venues are pubs or bars.
But to us who started this website, this really hasn't been the experience we've come across in our time as pub-going sports fans. Sure, it's happened but those occasions have been far in the minority. Some of our favourite memories involve either enjoying the relaxing experience a beer, a comfortable sofa and a massive plasma screen can bring or the frenetic, all-in-this-together, loud atmosphere that you'd otherwise only get at a match.
Particularly in London, the word pub doesn't necessarily mean full of alcoholics, just like the term 'football fan' doesn't have to mean hooligan. Being a multi-cultural city with many different sport-loving groups within it and many places that you wouldn't expect, showing games, the experiences deviate far from the expected.
We want to highlight that variety and celebrate it. When we set this up, we thought it was about listing everywhere that shows live sport. But maybe we're more about letting people know the best places to do so and highlighting those lesser-known gems.
Already, most of our top 10 are cracking places to watch sport (that we can vouch for) and places where you won't find aggro and you may not have even realised have satellite sport channels. We know there's more out there (and we'll be rolling it out further afield very soon) so let us know you favourite places to experience live sport in London.
Originally posted on Tumblr on 12th September 2011.
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