Monthly Archives: December 2019

The Boxing Day football fixtures we can never forget

No Boxing Day results will ever come close to the free-scoring football seen on 26th December, 1963, when across the 10 games played, the old First Division produced no less than 66 goals. Maybe it was the spirit of the age. The Beatles were at the start of a run of three years at Christmas number one, singing ‘I Want to Hold Your Hand’ while First Division footballers were flying at each other and crashing in goals like never before.

Here are the full scores from that fateful festive fixture list.

First Division Results / 26th December, 1963:

Blackpool 1-5 Chelsea

EPL Team of the Decade – 2010-2019

In a decade where so many of English football’s magical moments have taken place on live television, the English Premier League has grown more and more. The amount of money in the game has increased, and so has the notoriety for the players themselves.

In a decade where the top Premier League footballers could buy a house every week and still have change left over to tip hotel bellboys like Harry and Lloyd in Aspen, who have been the best of the best?

We have put together a team of absolute greats in a 4-3-3 formation that would terrify the 1970 Brazil side, 1999 Manchester United team and the cast of Space Jam rolled into one.

Let’s find out who makes the cut.