Say Hello to Beat the Gaffer
A weekly Premier League prediction game, fronted by a cheeky in-house pundit called The Gaffer, now bringing free pub-vs-pub leagues to the bar.
Register Your Pub →No cost to join. Setting up your pub’s prediction league costs nothing, no card, no catch.
He calls the scores. Your regulars try to beat him.
Beat the Gaffer is a weekly Premier League score-prediction game. Every gameweek, players call the scoreline for all ten fixtures, and try to outscore The Gaffer, a cheeky, opinionated in-house pundit who locks in his own calls before kick-off.
Over the World Cup, 41 pubs ran their own prediction leagues through the platform, regulars against each other, then pub against pub down the road. Beat the Gaffer is now bringing that to the full Premier League season, and building it out properly for pubs: free leagues, a pub-vs-pub derby feature, and print-ready extras for the bar.
Still early days This is a young, fast-moving product, currently signing up its first wave of pubs for the season. Worth going in with eyes open on that basis.
Everything a landlord needs, free to set up.
Beat the Gaffer’s pub tools, straight from their own pub-league page.
Set Up Your League
Name it after your pub, then share the join code with your regulars.
The Pub Derby
Challenge the pub down the road, your house against theirs, bragging rights on the line.
Embed Leaderboard
Put your live league table on your own pub’s website with an embed code.
The Live Board
An auto-refreshing matchday screen showing whose call is winning, The Gaffer’s or the house’s.
On The Telly
Big-screen mode for the bar: The Gaffer’s call, a join QR code, and your league, live.
The Bar Poster
A free, print-ready poster to get regulars scanning in at the bar.
The Beer Mats
Double-sided, print-ready beer mats for the tables, cut and go.
Ways pubs are already running with it.
Straight from Beat the Gaffer’s own suggestions: none of this is required, run whatever suits your house, or none of it.
A prize for the monthly winner. A pint or a pub meal for the regular who tops the league each month.
A chalkboard shout-out. Winner’s name up as this month’s “Gaffer Slayer.”
A freebie at the bar. A free print or sticker for anyone who joins the pub league in person.
A pub-vs-pub night. Your locals against the rival pub down the road, loser buys.
Half-time on the big screen. Flash up whose call is winning so far, The Gaffer’s or the house’s.
Source: figures and features published by Beat the Gaffer on beatthegaffer.com. Verify before publishing.
Get your regulars in a league, then take on the pub down the road. Your house against mine, and against theirs. Free.
Register Your Pub, Free
Beat the Gaffer is signing up pubs ahead of the season. Registering takes a minute, and someone from the team gets in touch to set your league up.
- Your own pub league, named and ready for regulars to join
- Pub-vs-pub derby against a rival down the road
- Free print pack, bar poster and beer mats included
Leads through to Beat the Gaffer’s own sign-up form, no obligation.
A weekly reason to walk through the door.
A pub closing every day in this country is exactly the problem Save British Pubs exists to fight. Beat the Gaffer’s own pitch leans on the same idea: give people a weekly ritual, a laugh, an argument over a pint, and a reason to choose the local over the sofa.
A free prediction league is a low-effort way for a pub to give regulars that reason, matchday after matchday, without anyone having to organise a thing.
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