But in Dunedin? Sorry, no can do.
With the England football team set to take on Croatia in a World Cup semifinal tomorrow at 6am (NZ time) fans of the team are on tenterhooks and crossing all appendages.
Part of the English tradition is to watch the big game - and they do not come much bigger than a World Cup semifinal - on a big screen at the local watering hole.
In Dunedin, though, the doors are closed for English football fans. No pubs are scheduled to be opened in the city for the game tomorrow morning.
Last weekend, Dunedin carpenter Spencer Eve went looking for a tavern which was showing the game live in Dunedin.
But he came up short.
''I went round the pubs and asked, but none of them said they would show the game. It was a bit disappointing,'' he said.
His answer - drive four hours to watch the game at a packed pub in Queenstown.
''I rang up the Pig and Whistle and they said come over. We've been packed out.''
Spencer and his brother Bradley - who is actually a Welsh supporter but lowered himself to watch England - wife Suz and father Richard, jumped in the car on Saturday afternoon, drove to Queenstown and watched England's 2-0 win over Sweden in the quarterfinal.
''I watched the round of 16 game at home but wanted to watch the quarterfinal with some other people. That is the way it has been done back at home.
''It was packed and [had] a great atmosphere.''
He said for tomorrow morning's game he was hoping to get a few friends round and try to create an atmosphere. He had rung some bars but all indicated they were not opening.
Tight licensing laws make it impossible for bars to open on a whim.
Eve, who has been in New Zealand for seven years and is a West Ham supporter, was confident of an English victory - 3-1 he predicted - and said the young, fresh English side was doing the country proud.
Dunedin resident and England supporter Neil Robinson was also looking for a pub open to watch the game.
There were 300,000 tickets sold to an event in Hyde Park in London but no pub in Dunedin could open for the game, which was tough to swallow, he said.
''A couple of bars said they could open at 8 o'clock, but that is too late. It is just so much better to watch it in a bar with people,'' he said.
Dunedin City Council alcohol adviser Kevin Mechen said as of yesterday morning there had been no applications for a special licence so pubs could open tomorrow.
If any applications were made between now and the semifinal or final there would not be enough time for them to be processed, he said.
- Additional reporting by Tim Miller
