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‘We will all be rooting for him’: Jordan Pickford will be playing in the quarter-final on Saturday (Reuters)
Regulars in Jordan Pickford’s local pub in Wearside are preparing to cheer him on during England’s Euro 2020 quarter-final clash one of thousands of pubs gearing up for a huge sporting weekend while still trying to maintain social distancing restrictions.
The Biddick Inn looks set to be rammed as the Three Lions go head to head with Ukraine in Rome on Saturday evening, if the phone ringing off the hook is anything to go by.
Greedy Gordons Group to open two pubs
Richard Gordon and Sonya Harvey, the co-owners of Northamptonshire-based Greedy Gordons Group who have run Punch pub the Red Lion at Cranford for the past four years, are poised to open two pubs, creating 60 new jobs.
The Pig & Waffle in Grafton Underwood, near Kettering – a private lease with Boughton Estates – will open in early June, while Grade II listed private lease the Snooty Fox in Lowick – acquired by the Greedy Gordons Group before the pandemic – will finally open its doors in early July.
“Our focus at present is being able to finally welcome customers into our wonderful new pubs and continue to safely maximise trade at the Red Lion,” Gordan said. “But we have an appetite for opening further sites in Northamptonshire, including Northampton, when the time and opportunities are right.”