My gig for tomorrow afternoon has been cancelled due to some blokes kicking an inflated bit other leather around somewhere hot.
Sorry, but first things first!
Surely your venue must have known the date of the WC Final for months or does this sort of info only really slowly percolate into the Fens(?) Also if your was to be venue is a pub, Iâm equally sorry to suggest it might be a tad more crowded than it would have been for your gig - thoâ obviously no slight intended, as the same fate might have befallen John Martin or even J Hendrix 
Meanwhile, allez le Bleus !
It was indeed a pub, though Iâve really no idea how long the date has been publicly available for the WCF.
Tried to find that info, but had difficulty framing effective search terms, but it must have been at least a year ago!
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If the âWorld Cup Final Dayâ was left blank ⌠with absolutely nothing of any interest happening except football⌠what a dull time it would be for every country except the 2 Finalists⌠
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How annoying. Itâs not as though its England is it?
They must have known the date of the final a long time ago.
They could have made it a football free zone and you could have had your gig too.
Very short sighted.
I think these two sentences together perhaps explain what may have happened. We all know hospitality is in a terrible mess between the lack of customers, rocketing food and drink costs and the energy crisis. It seems perfectly reasonable to me that they wouldnât set out their stall as a âfootball pubâ early on and risk alienating most of their potential customers for the entire tournament if thereâs little interest, but rather play it by ear and perhaps thought there was enough in the end to show the final, and get the football watchers revenue. It is of course very disappointing for @Ancient_Mariner and his band, and all the people who wanted to see them, but I canât honestly imagine an industry Iâd less like to be in at the moment than that, they must be having such a tough time, and having so many difficult decisions to make to keep going.
The landlord has only been running the pub since May, and I suspect there may have been a planning gap, especially if they arenât football centric.
Itâs ok.
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Iâve just listened to this on BBC R2 itâs so sad âWhatâs so Great in Britain nowâ? 
The song starts +/- 2.30 minutes into the video.
Better than what was airing with Nick Ferrari on LBC this morning! I didnât catch who they were talking about but people were sending rapid fire tweets demanding lynching, hanging, the death penalty and vigilante action. It didnât sound as though they were joking.
Never mind no longer Great, I think Nasty Britain is gaining ground
Former Top Gear presenter possibly??
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I do what I can to avoid the odious Nick Ferrari but the bit I caught that seemed to be getting the âstring âim upâ crowd worked up was in relation to a man who murdered his partner and 3 children, not a spiteful entitled old man who said some nasty things.
I did not know about this killer and what can you say except for what those calling out for stringing him up have said! What drives these depraved people to do such evil is something I will never understand but maybe it is time to bring the death penalty back, they do it in the USA and maybe it would be a deterrent in some roundabout way but that is a debate that has never moved on. All I know is that if someone like that murdered my family, I would want him to pay with his life as well,its a human reaction.
The biggest argument against it seems to be this exact sentence. They do it in the USA and it seems to be absolutely zero deterrent. Not that I have any interest in getting into the debate about such things on here, given how outraged some seem to get about any ridiculous nonsense the Daily Mail feeds them I think thatâs probably left well alone 
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Yes agree about that, leave well alone especially on a public forum where everyone can say what they feel and veryoften it leads to unpleasantness. What I canât get my head around is the fact that this monster will probably plead insanity, have a tame lawyer pleading the same and get a few years porridge and possibly be out and do it again, many do. The UK justice system is broken as we all know and its the victimâs families who end up paying the price and not the perpetrator of the crime.
Oooooooo
Weâve got a particularly nasty piece of work coming our way soonâŚ
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No, no, no, the very worst thing to do. Apart from the possibility of mistakes, and the whole moral case against taking a human life, the very best punishment for someone so evil is a whole life confinement in prison.
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And to retain the possibility of atonement and even redemption.
As long as they atone for the rest of their, natural, lives. Redemption is more difficult to attain I think. 
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