The Old Swan

14/07/2026

Its official BDB is the tallest thing in england...rumour has it Lionel messi is considering retirement at the prospect of facing the 6ft 7 powerhouse.

See if this and many other wild predictions come true tomorrow.

Match starts at 8pm, food served till 8pm. Pizzas will be on the go throughout.

As well as our bottle deals, 2 for £14 cocktails.

If England win it certainly will get Messi

13/07/2026

Interesting facts about this fixture.

Both teams have physically knocked each other out of the tournament on the way to winning their iconic World Cups—England in 1966 and Argentina in 1986.

The chaotic 1966 match, heavily disrupted by language barriers and Antonio Rattín's refusal to leave the pitch, inspired FIFA referee Ken Aston to pioneer the physical yellow and red card system used today

But enought about all that.....its on 8pm at the swan on all 5 tvs, we will be doing our footy cards, the last goal wins, pizzas, half time food.

None of this hydration break malarky

12/07/2026

Big one on wedensday England take on Argentina....England actually hold a competitive edge over our south american oponents. With a 6 to 2 win ratio is competitive matches.

In what is our 4th only semi final in a world cup and suprisingly we've never met messi and co in a semi.

Catch it here at the swan 8pm

England and Argentina have never met in a World Cup semifinal — unt...

12/07/2026

Its a clash bigger than most steeped in history, the hand of god, beckham and simeone...this one will be tasty.

The mercurial messi looks to add to his laundry list of accolades in his last world cup.

Tuchel and his boys look to end 60 years of waiting for another trophy.

Catch the game at the swan from 8pm....you can book a table with one of the guys.

We have the 10 pint give away ...nobody had the winner this time round

We will have the footy cards and half time nibbles as well as the largley popular pizzas.

Our sweepstake is in its penultamate phase. With only 4 teams left these guys have a garanteed prize

Foalsey -argentina
Alan -england
Ollie and sue - spain
Matty s - france

10/07/2026

Another day another brilliant world cup post ....just incase you forgot we're showing the game.

10/07/2026

Continuing on from yesterday we're going to go live with pizzas.

This will be a trial for weekends and evenings...starting tonight from 6pm and will be available outside normal kitchen hours too.

You can have these in the pub, beer garden or to take home.

Toppings include

Margarita
Veg supreme
Pepperoni
Spinach and goats cheese
Tandoori chicken

PSA - pizza shown not indictive or presentation....we saw mine they're better😉

09/07/2026

Little sneak peek....going to trial pizzas for the match on saturday.

Had a play today and these are the results.

Margarita
Spinnach and goats cheese
And tandoori chicken

09/07/2026

Its semi finals week...we have all the action here at the swan. Will it be the status quo and all the big boys go through. Or will there be more suprises?

08/07/2026

I cant promise a show like this on saturday...but i can promise you football, beer, bait and bantz.

We will also be running the footy cards and the 10 pint giveaway again.

08/07/2026

The stats have us at 17.23%, 3rd favorites to win the world cup.

Well im a gambiing man and i know 100% the game is on here at the old swan (whatever time they decide)

We're going to be trialling pizzas this week too....keep an eye out for that. Pizza, beer, football thats like the holy trinity of pubs.