Thursday, 12 February 2026

Revisit 20 years on: N0145 Fagans

When I last visited here, in ~2006ish, there were some oddities with staff attitudes - rather than telling us they simply didn't want to show a lower league football game that was on Sky, they claimed their satellite setup was broken. We returned after watching it in the adjacent pub (which I also revisited on the same day for its 20 years on go), and everything was miraculously working for the Premier League game that was on instead. 

There were some oddities again, with staff seeming disinterested in servicing the bar; and also being oddly protective of tables as if some hordes were about to arrive for food service.

I wasn't asking to see a Brighton game, and indeed they are no longer lower league anyway, so there's far less chance of being lied to about faulty kit (or just told no, or having the channel changed half way through), but I do wonder if something would have come up as a problem if I had!

I don't think much else has changed here in the intervening 20 years, either, except possibly a slight increase in the range of drinks on offer.

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