A pair of drinkers battered a pub landlord after an argument about one of the men's love life.
Kevin Keelan and Kai Finch lashed out at Martin Rowe at the Monument pub in Southport earlier this year. They punched and kicked him, backed him into a corner and one of them threw a glass at him during the incident in January.
A judge at Liverpool Crown Court today handed both men a second chance as he decided not to jail them.
