Pub landlady sees Forest free drink football promotion backfire in spectacular fashion

Drinkers astatine The Gedling Inn were offered a escaped pint each clip Nottingham Forest scored. Unluckily for the pub manager, they thrashed Brighton - leaving her £1,000 retired of pocket

A pub proprietor offered drinkers a escaped pint each clip Nottingham Forest scored - lone for the broadside to triumph 7-0.

Landlady Beccy Webster came up with the promotion to item the information the boozer was present showing Premier League games. The archetypal lucifer to beryllium screened astatine The Gedling Inn successful Nottinghamshire was Forest’s Saturday lunchtime clash against Brighton.

Punters packed into the pub and were stunned arsenic Nuno Espirito Santo's men, who are flying precocious successful the league, went goal-crazy. Beccy’s unit were forced to manus retired hundreds of escaped pints to the thirsty fans arsenic Forest romped to victory.

Beccy, 33, said: “I was upstairs feeding my babe erstwhile I heard the archetypal extremity spell in, past the 2nd rapidly afterwards. I had conscionable travel downstairs erstwhile the 3rd went successful - I thought, ‘Here we go’. When the last whistle went, I conscionable said, ‘Phew’. Never successful my wildest dreams did I ideate they’d people 7 goals.”

The promotion near Beccy much than £1,000 retired of pouch - but she said it was inactive “a bully day”. She added: “People were singing, and radical were respectful with the connection - tons of radical were inactive buying drinks. People stayed for food, and tons of radical person been asking if we'll beryllium having immoderate much offers on.

“It’s conscionable bully to get down the squad - it's bully for the full city, they're putting america connected the map. We're reasoning astir what offers we tin bash adjacent - but I americium not definite we'll ever apical the play of that.”

Local Felix Hogg said: “What a pub - they kept to their word.” And Kayleigh Smith added: “Well done to the landlady for sticking to it - stake determination were a batch of sore heads connected Sunday.”

Forest beryllium 3rd successful the Premier League and are eyeing a spot successful adjacent season’s Champion’s League. Striker Chris Wood netted a hat-trick against Brighton, with Morgan Gibbs-White, Nico Williams and Jota Silva besides scored.

Brighton defender Lewis Dunk began the rout with a 12th infinitesimal ain goal.