Get a free pint if you share a surname with football stars

FOOTBALL fans can bag themselves a free drink – if they share a surname with a player in the men’s Wales or England teams.

Pub company and brewer Greene King is behind the offer, which coincides with the current World Cup.

Pubgoers can get a free pint, bottle of Ice Breaker Pale Ale or soft drink alternative throughout the two nations’ group stages of the tournament in more than 800 pubs nationwide.

To claim the free drink, customers must show valid, in-date photo ID at the bar of any participating pub during a live group game involving either Wales or England.

They must have one of the following surnames: Hennessey, Ward, Davies, Cabango, Lockyer, Rodon, Mepham, Ampadu, Gunter, Williams, Roberts, Thomas, Allen, Smith, Levitt, Wilson, Morrell, Ramsey, Colwill, Bale, Moore, Harris, Johnson, James, Pickford, Pope, Ramsdale, AlexanderArnold, Coady, Dier, Maguire, Shaw, Stones, Trippier, Walker, White, Bellingham, Gallagher, Henderson, Mount, Phillips, Rice, Foden, Grealish, Kane, Maddison, Rashford, Saka, Sterling, or Wilson.

You must be 18 or over to participate and there is only one free drink per person, while stocks last. The offer is available during Wales v Iran and England v USA, which are both being played on Friday, and the keenly anticipated Wales v England match next Tuesday.

Every Wales and England group stage fixture will be shown live in hundreds of Greene King sports pubs across the country. The offer is not available in Scotland.

Chris Conchie, head of marketing for Greene King sport, said: “Any international football tournament is a major event for fans, and since the success of [England’s] Lionesses earlier this year, all eyes are on the men’s teams this winter.

“This limited time offer is more than just a free drink, it’s a chance for us, as your home of pub sport, to provide the best environment for people to come and show their support right across the UK for our England and Wales stars as they pursue glory at the highest level of international football.”

Greene King has a number of pubs around South Wales, including Cardiff venues the Black Griffin, Cardiff Bay Tavern, the Claude, the Clive Arms, the Glassworks, the Melrose Inn, and the Three Elms, as well as the Ship pub in Barry, the Man of Gwent in Newport, and the Tredegar Arms in Bassaleg.

The full list of participating sites is at www.greeneking-pubs.co.uk/ live-sport/football/world-cup/ hear-them-roar/. Fans can book a table for the group stage matches at www.greeneking-pubs.co.uk/ live-sport/football/world-cup/.