Want to book a pub table for Euro 2024? It may be too late

Pub and restaurant trade reporting high demand for tournament bookings, as football fans prepare to follow fortunes of England and Scotland on the big screen

Football fans used to worry about getting a ticket into the ground. Now they are fretting about being able to book a place at the bar.

Bookings to watch England in Euro 2024 have soared in the last week as fans cottoned on to the fact that the nation's first game in the tournament against Serbia will also fall on Father's Day, this Sunday 16 June.