Pubs of Manchester

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Showing posts with label Sports Café - Quay Street. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sports Café - Quay Street. Show all posts

Saturday, 23 January 2010

Sports Café, Quay Street


Sports Cafe, Quay Street. (c) gmgrd.

One of the Sports Café chain that tried to tie general sports in with American style pool tables with live telvised football.  What it failed to grasp was that many local pubs had this without the necessity to pay high prices, both to play and to drink and they didn't have enough of an angle to attract the hoardes required to succeed.  Closed down when the whole chain went into administration.  It clearly wasn't a profitable venture as the Manchester branch wasn't included in the buy-out when part of the company was sold off.