The Thomas

sports pub The Thomas Frost is the City Centre Wetherspoons that earns its place on this list precisely because it does the chain format with more attention to the football calendar than is strictly required. The screen layout is generous by chain standards, the audio is mixed competently across Premier League, Champions League and the obvious rugby internationals, and the beer programme — by Wetherspoons standards — is unusually attentive to the local craft scene, with rotations from Liverpool Brewing, Mad Hatter and visiting Manchester breweries alongside the standard chain taps.

The food is the predictable Spoons menu. The crowd is a real Liverpool mix on matchdays, with a usable neutral identity for visitors. It ranks seventh on the strength of the local-beer rotation and the unusually generous screen plan for the format, with appropriate acknowledgement of the chain ceiling.

For the full ranking, see our editorial round-up of the 10 best sports bars in Liverpool, the broader Liverpool sports bars guide, and our category index of sports bars worldwide.