does anyone know if Sheffield are putting a big screen up in the peace gardens for the world cup games ?

Or is that just expecting al ittle too much from our splendid council ?

what a brilliant idea... although, i wouldnt hold out much hope.

Chances are slimmer than slim.

BBC are supplying one in Leeds,Bradford and Rotherham.Personally i think it would be better placed in Tuder Square like it was during the snooker.

I would hope not...they're the Peace Gardens after all.

Wouldn't be much peace if they were to be trashed on a daily basis by football fans :P

Well I asked SCC and they have confirmed that there won't be a big screen. Still waiting for an explanation why not though.

Disappointing.

M

It would be nice to have a couple of places you can go to get away from the football, it's total saturation on TV and radio already and guess what, not every single person in the country is obesssed with it.

It would be nice to have a couple of places you can go to get away from the football, it's total saturation on TV and radio already and guess what, not every single person in the country is obesssed with it.

It only happens once every 4 years, there are load of other Tv channels not showing the footy. So chill out.

It would be nice to have a couple of places you can go to get away from the football, it's total saturation on TV and radio already and guess what, not every single person in the country is obesssed with it.

Sky don't have rights to the World Cup and as far as they are concerned it doesn't exist. Subscribe to that and stop moaning.

I'm not moaning, I couldn't care less, football is a girls game, but perhaps not everyone in the world is desperate to watch it, thats all I'm saying.

It would be nice to have a couple of places you can go to get away from the football, it's total saturation on TV and radio already and guess what, not every single person in the country is obesssed with it.

They could put a big screen up showing the Big Brother live streaming. Then people would have a real choice. :thumbsup:

quite sad the council arent doing it. i have been to leeds, manc, birmingham etc. where they have them and it is nice to have somewhere to go in the middle of the city that unites people..... looks like its watching it in a pub somewhere instead

Anything to cover up that St Appauling's Place eyesore would be very welcome. Permanently!!

It would be nice to have a couple of places you can go to get away from the football, it's total saturation on TV and radio already and guess what, not every single person in the country is obesssed with it.It only happens once every 4 years, there are load of other Tv channels not showing the footy. So chill out.Non sequitur. There isn't the option of watching other channels in the Peace Gardens.
Thank goodness :cool:

I hope there is no chance of this.
Its bad enough trying to avoid the blooming football the rest of the year, without ruining summer as well. I am most upset to find that wetherspoons at woodseats have put screens in.
Does anyone know of any pubs that will be Football free, and by implication yob free this summer.

I hope there is no chance of this.
Its bad enough trying to avoid the blooming football the rest of the year, without ruining summer as well. I am most upset to find that wetherspoons at woodseats have put screens in.
Does anyone know of any pubs that will be Football free, and by implication yob free this summer.


dunno mate i suppose you could try some of the old fart pubs ;)

Does anyone know of any pubs that will be Football free, and by implication yob free this summer.

being a football fan does not equal being a yob thankyou. get your eyes open and see that taring everyone with one brush does not work.

BBC are supplying one in Leeds,Bradford and Rotherham.Personally i think it would be better placed in Tuder Square like it was during the snooker.
We know there's a permanent big screen at Millennium Square in Leeds, so if BBC are supplying one in Leeds, does that mean there are two big screens in Leeds (in addition to the hundreds of city centre bars and clubs that'll be screening the World Cup there).

Anyway roll on 6 days (and counting down)

right in front of sheff hallam uni main entrance, hallam square, that would be a good place.

if it was in the peace gardens the plants and grass would suffer.

the one in leeds in millenium square is great. if sheffield city council wants to keep up with leeds then they need to think "big screen happy citizens" fairly sharpish.

My suggestion Muddy is the Red Deer, Civilisations could rise and fall, Empires could invade, occupy and retreat and the hordes of scummy council types which plague the city centre could evolve into a primordial creature capable of autonamous thought and rudimentry social skills and the Red Deer would still be there serving a foaming pint of nut brown ale to engineering students and their lecturers and quality people who are 'in the know'.

I'd put it in Tudor Square, and encorage bars/Starbucks to put seats outside. Tudor Square's a lovely place, but seems a bit wasted at the moment.

It would be nice to have a couple of places you can go to get away from the football.
There's Bramall lane next season for 1. :hihi:


<<<<<<<<<<,Worth a try

right in front of sheff hallam uni main entrance, hallam square, that would be a good place.

if it was in the peace gardens the plants and grass would suffer.

the one in leeds in millenium square is great. if sheffield city council wants to keep up with leeds then they need to think "big screen happy citizens" fairly sharpish.

or "no big screen even more happy citizens". Why should everyone be subjected to the football? The modern world is all about choice, if you want to watch football go where you can watch it: Germany, home, pubs or clubs. NOT public spaces. Long may the Peace Gardens remain peaceful.

BBC are supplying one in Leeds,Bradford and Rotherham.Personally i think it would be better placed in Tuder Square like it was during the snooker.

The BBC did not supply the one in Rotherham. It was paid for out of regeneration money (ie tax payers money)that, IMHO could have been better spent to say the least

Does anyone know of any pubs that will be Football free, and by implication yob free this summer.

Not many places will be able to resist the massive cash-in potential of the World Cup.

Not many places will be able to resist the massive cash-in potential of the World Cup.

Which no doubt includes charging people to actually get thru their doors in the first place. Don't agree with that and it shouldn't be allowed :rant:

The constant promotion of football beyond all other subjects for a vocal minority of people is amusing, rediculous and sad.
When you consider that if one of the local teams are playing you might get 20 thousand people bothered enough to go and support the game, this is less than 1% of the population of the city. Even if you argued that there are some other fans who would go if they could, and double the figure to 40 thousand then you are still less than 1% of the population of the city.

If you tripled the attendance at both grounds at once and filled them, as if there was a once in a lifetime cup final, the number would still be an insignificant percentage of the population of the city.
On that basis there is absolutely no call for making a large part of the town centre a no go for the rest of the population.

being a football fan does not equal being a yob thankyou. get your eyes open and see that taring everyone with one brush does not work.
Well I have tried to put gigs on in pubs when I was unaware that there was a big football match to be shown before, and the normally well behaved people in the pub turn into a scarey angry mob, and branding them yobs is actually quite polite. Many times I have been extremely frightened that my gear was going to be smashed. And have actually been shouted at and threatened by these people.

I could tell you many stories when football has turned a pub into a battleground, indeed I have seen yobs throwing bottles at police vans after an england football match only 2 streets away from my own home.
And the only time I have ever seen anything near a riot in the town centre was on a saturday night when a loads of visiting football YOBS decided to come to sheffield town centre to fight Local football YOBS after a game at one of the City's grounds.
One of my best mates who is not from Sheffield originally and follows Liverpool, used to go down to one of the local quiet pubs to watch the matches when they were shown on sky there, because he always enjoyed the atmosphere, but last year he was threatened with violence during a screening and hasn't been back since. this chap hasn't got a violent bone in his body why should he have to put up with these football YOBS.

So csi_bha, Being a football fan is ok by me, but when they cannot control themselves and threaten and cause damage and injury which affects others they are YOBS. This is almost always when alcohol is added. I'm sure that many pubs only show it because they need the money.

As I said in the "Big screen TV in Rotherham" thread:

The idea is to show broadcasts that get a great atmosphere when a group watch. I don't know if Manchester did anything with Eurovision this year but the one last year was great. I don't mind if they show the World Cup either, it will be nice to be with a group of like-minded individuals and not have to be in a smoky pub, particularly if the young-uns want to watch it as well.

Liverpool and London have 'pulled the plug' on their big screens following violence during the first England match. and Manchester are likely to follow suit because of concerns about overcrowding.

If this kind of behaviour resuts from England winning without actually scoring imagine the mayhem if they lost a game.:loopy:

http://football.guardian.co.uk/worldcup2006/story/0,,1796292,00.html

I couldn't believe the queue outside ther Old Monk on Surrey Street on Saturday, especailly as they were actually charging to get in !

It seems strange to pay to get into a pub and then pay extra for beer and food to watch something you could watch at home with your mates for free.

I reluctantly paid to get in the Old Monk for a Euro 2004 game but wouldn't do it again. I then found out that there was a big screen in the Peace Gardens so I needn't have bothered. I've heard that if England progress then there will be a screen somewhere, but don't know whether it's true or not.

Devonshire Green would be better, more room to sit and less things to break.

Liverpool and London have 'pulled the plug' on their big screens following violence during the first England match. and Manchester are likely to follow suit because of concerns about overcrowding.

If this kind of behaviour resuts from England winning without actually scoring imagine the mayhem if they lost a game.:loopy:

http://football.guardian.co.uk/worldcup2006/story/0,,1796292,00.html

I was speaking to someone who went to the Liverpool screen. There was a problem with a small group but the powers that be decided that rather than get them out, to turn off the screen. That was when all hell broke loose!

Liverpool and London have 'pulled the plug' on their big screens following violence during the first England match. and Manchester are likely to follow suit because of concerns about overcrowding.

If this kind of behaviour resuts from England winning without actually scoring imagine the mayhem if they lost a game.:loopy:

http://football.guardian.co.uk/worldcup2006/story/0,,1796292,00.html

Actually In my experience losing is much less bother than winning. They just all wander off after losing whereas when they win all the fans think it is their right to break everything and push everything over.

So, after this PROOF that football yobs cannot behave themselves in public in front of a big screen, I think that this thread can be finally put to bed.

I reluctantly paid to get in the Old Monk for a Euro 2004 game but wouldn't do it again. I then found out that there was a big screen in the Peace Gardens so I needn't have bothered. I've heard that if England progress then there will be a screen somewhere, but don't know whether it's true or not.
Paying to go into a pub to watch a Euro 2004 game, and now according to another post, queueing up to pay to watch this World Cup in a pub? I've heard it all now. Perhaps this is the weakness of not having a big screen nor the vast selection of bars with plasma and big screens that Leeds and Manchester have, not to mention the screen at Millennium Square in Leeds, and the screen attached to the Triangle in Manchester. There were loads watching the big screen in Leeds last Saturday, and loads watching the match in the Sports Cafe (probably over 800) - and I didn't have to pay nor queue to get in.

I never expected to have to pay and it's wrong, given the amount of money theymust be making, and I won't be paying to watch it in town tomorrow night. I'll be in town, I just won't be paying :D