‘Free pint when Forest score!’: pub loses £1,500 after seven-goal rampage

Regulars at the Gedling Inn were delighted with the football-fuelled giveaway. Photograph: Gedling Inn

It had seemed like the perfect promotion to get a few more punters through the door on a Saturday afternoon – give away a free pint for every goal scored by Nottingham Forest that day.

But seven goals and £1,500 worth of pints later, Nottinghamshire pub landlady Beccy Webster realised she might have scored a spectacular own goal.