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Rooney scores profit goal for Greene King Football fans are drawn like magnets to the massive plasma screens in the local pub and drink lots of lager as the national team play badly. Tell us something we don't know. OK. On the days when England's World Cup matches were on, fans consumed 70% more beer than they did the same day a year ago. This is the message from Greene King (GNK) chief executive Rooney Anand who said the key to success in the World Cup was having enough staff available to serve people quickly at the right time. Success for the pub trade, that is, although he did half apologise for his football namesake who got himself sent off in the disastrous match against Portugal. Anand inevitably feels a little differently than he did about the high fees paid to Sky to bring top sporting events to some of the company's 2,700 pubs. -- DEV BOREM KORUM. Gabe Menezes. London, England _______________________________________________ Goanet mailing list Goanet@lists.goanet.org http://lists.goanet.org/listinfo.cgi/goanet-goanet.org