It started with a local lad, a boxing camp in Texas, and a thirst.
Scott Murray was at a boxing training camp in Houston when, after one of his sessions, the Brit started craving a beer. What he found instead was the American sports bar: somewhere that served good food and good drink and put sport on all day, every day.
There was nothing like it back home. Several beers later he decided he was better at drinking than he was at boxing, and that the idea would work in Staffordshire.
Scott opened the first Bar Sport in his home town in 1998. Millions of pints later, it is still here, on High Green in the middle of Cannock.
High Green, Cannock
The bars are packed with genuine sporting memorabilia collected from all over the world: shirts, gloves, photographs and signatures, the sort of thing you stand and read while your pint goes warm.
Sporting greats have been through these doors over the years, from goalkeepers Gordon Banks and Peter Shilton to Roberto Durán and Thomas Hearns, World Cup winners Norman Hunter and Roger Hunt, and generations of Wolves legends.
If you like great food, great beer and great sport, then Bar Sport is for you.Where sport is life
UpstairsBar Sport sits in the Danilo on High Green, the town's old cinema, with The Premier Suite occupying the first floor as Cannock's banqueting and party venue.
One building, two rooms with very different jobs: sport, food and booths downstairs; weddings, tribute nights, boxing dinners and Christmas upstairs.
Visit The Premier Suite