The owner of a famous Leeds United pub was “drunk” when he bought it in a “heart-ruling-head” spur-of-the-moment decision.

Leeds fan Jamie Lawson, 53, admitted he’d had “quite a few beers” when he acquired The Old Peacock which is situated across the road from the club’s Elland Road Stadium . The famous pub dates back to 1826, almost a hundred years before the club was established in 1919.

The pub’s legacy is so entwined with Leeds United’s history that it even had a hand in the club’s formation. The brewers who owned the pub had developed the once barren land across the road into a sports field and called it the Old Peacock Ground. It eventually became Elland Road Stadium.

Jamie’s first match at Elland Road would have been when he was around six years old and attacking midfielder T

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