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The Red Lion landlord Tom Doggett scooped Black Sabbath tickets in a moment of ‘complete luck'(Image: Robson McCallister\/BirminghamLive)<\/p>\nThe West Midlands landlord described the moment as ‘complete luck’The Red Lion landlord Tom Doggett scooped Black Sabbath tickets in a moment of ‘complete luck'(Image: Robson McCallister\/BirminghamLive)<\/p>\n
A Brummie landlord has hit on the trick of getting youngsters out of his pub after final orders – and it’s all thanks to Ozzy Osbourne.<\/p>\n
Heavy metal nut Tom Doggett, who runs the Red Lion in Evesham, says he hit upon the trick after getting tickets to the final Black Sabbath gig in Birmingham<\/a> next month.<\/p>\n Tom said he had previously had trouble getting young people enjoying a drink to leave the pub – but he’s found talking about Sabbath does the trick.<\/p>\n Read more: <\/a><\/strong>I visited charming Birmingham pub ‘in the middle of nowhere’ and felt like I’d gone back in time<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n When asked about the reaction to his Black Sabbath news: Tom added: “Some of the customers are a bit jealous, especially the younger ones.<\/p>\n “I use it as a way for them to go home. If they’re inside the pub after closing time, I’ll say: ‘If you don’t leave, I’m going to start talking about Black Sabbath’.”<\/p>\n With his wife being a fan of heavy metal, Tom managed to scoop Black Sabbath tickets in a moment of ‘complete luck’.<\/p>\n Speaking to BirminghamLive, he said: “The day before tickets went on sale, I found a link which ensured Black Sabbath tickets if you booked a hotel.<\/p>\n “It was complete luck that I stumbled across it, I was thinking of ways to get tickets.<\/p>\n “My wife had booked the day off work to book tickets so I surprised her when she came home.<\/p>\n “It’s a bit of trek from Villa Park but not the end of the world, it’s in the city centre.<\/p>\n “After I paid for the tickets, we’re not going on holiday this year.”<\/p>\n BirminghamLive visited the Red Lion after the market town was named the second-happiest place to live in the UK by The Guardian.<\/p>\n Having saved the pub from closure when previous owners retired in 2022, it’s been happy days so far for Tom.<\/p>\n In less than a year, he won a CAMRA Special Award for ‘New Landlord Achievements’, the first award of its kind.<\/p>\n The Red Lion is located on Market Place, Evesham, WR11 4RW<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The West Midlands landlord described the moment as ‘complete luck’The Red Lion landlord Tom Doggett scooped Black Sabbath…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":183193,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,19160,748,393,75205,4884,16,15,18874],"class_list":{"0":"post-183192","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-black-sabbath","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-evesham","13":"tag-great-britain","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-villa-park-stadium"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114680554281679135","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183192\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}