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by dickiedyce 559 days ago
Pretty sure that The Maypole (https://maypolefreehouse.co.uk), which is round the back of the Baron, is safe... thank goodness.
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> We are a Euro FREE Zone which means no sports will be shown at the pub.

American here. What the heck does this mean?

It means they haven't updated their website since summer when the European football championships were on :-) (and that, as the sibling comment says, they're advertising themselves as a pub where you go to avoid the coverage rather than a pub where you go to watch it).
LOL. Pubs in the UK tend to fall into roughly 2 camps... with TV, and without. And the with TV ones can be quite extreme, and conversation can be difficult when people are distracted by a TV visible whichever way you look. During the European football championships, lots of pubs have wall-to-wall football coverage (as in soccer, not Rugby in drag) which serious drinkers might want to avoid ;-) (And for the more sports obsessed, it also makes, avoiding seeing the scores before you get home and watch it properly on catch-up much easier...)