Wether World Cup

Are you a poor misguided sap who thought Wetherspoons boozers were a safe haven from World Cup matches this summer? Well you're wrong.

Ha! Serves you right.

It's going to be towels-off, tellies in, tellies on and sound up in branches of the boozer giants, which has caved in to World Cup fever, according to the Independent.

And we can't say we blame them - it'd be silly to squander profits for principle, after all.

Oh, and the World Cup is also totally unmissable - in case you'd forgotten.

A middle-ground is being reached by the chain announcing it will only have the volume turned up for England matches and will only show "most" matches (in the Indy's words).

JD Wetherspoon chief exec John Hutson says the company aren't going our of their way to attract football fans during the tournament.

But as a pub-based booze bonanza beckons - much depending on how England get on, of course - thousands of fans in Wetherspoons in Three Lions garb, supping heavily, wouldn't go amiss on the bottom line, would it?

Get 'em in, you lot, the match is about to kick-off...