Emmerdale fans convinced they solved game-changing Joe Tate return twist as The Woolpack teeters on ruin

EMMERDALE fans are convinced they know who is sabotaging The Woolpack – Joe Tate.

The pub comes under attack next week with Charity Dingle left with a bleed on her brain after trying to fend off the attacker. 

Chas is unimpressed when the Woolpack electricity cuts out, but fails to notice that someone has deliberately cut the external mains cable. 

Chas and Marlon are forced to close the pub for the day. 

Meanwhile, a hooded figure breaks into the Woolpack, forces open the till and snatches the money.

Charity, who’s wandering about in the dark, catches the mystery intruder breaking in, but is left lying unconscious in a pool of blood when she tries to intervene.

Viewers will see a distraught Chas fearing the worst as Charity is taken off to hospital in the back of an ambulance.

At the hospital, Chas reveals to Paddy that Charity has a bleed on the brain.

Will Charity make it through?

The following day, PC Swirling arrives to investigate the pub robbery and quickly becomes suspicious that not all is as it seems.

Will the officer be able to work out what’s happened?

Viewers know that business partners Chas and Marlon are already struggling with the pub’s finances.

This week, things get a whole lot worse when Marlon hatches a plan to make some money fast and ropes in Matty to help with a Woolpack barbecue, paying him in cash. 

Matty gears up to use the grill, but disaster strikes when he uses lighter fluid on the barbecue and burns his hands as a blaze erupts. 

The following day, Moira tells Chas that Matty is entitled to compensation for his injuries which will leave him unable to work.

Marlon and Chas are left worrying how they’re going to afford a payout.

But when a mystery buyer offers to snap up the place – they’re tempted and fans think it’s Joe.

One wrote: “Perhaps Joe is the buyer of the Woolpack?!”

Another said: “Wish Joe would come back and take over from the Tates and find out who killed Graham!”