10 Reasons why the Christmas Period is to be revered.

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1. Boxing Day Booze Up : Nothing better than waking up from the prior day festivities with a day off but without all the responsibility. Boxing Day football is a tradition – think snow, think darkness, think Bovril. And a full set of fixtures to chance your arm.

2. The convenient red cards we see the fixture before the Christmas period: James McClean at the weekend with a ‘mistimed tackle.’ John Terry a few years ago versus Everton. These players wanted Christmas off to spend with the Mrs and were willing to go to extreme lengths to do so.

3. Local or regional derbies throughout the lower leagues. A tradition to limit travelling often means a short distance to watch your team, with the highlight undoubtedly this year being the biggest derby outside the football league with Woking taking on Aldershot on both Boxing Day and the first fixture in the New Year.

4. For the weekend warriors amongst you living the Ladbrokes life, we can flutter all day every day. And it’s all on the Tele. Apart from you West Brom – sorry about that.

5. Hearing the old footballing cliché that foreign players go missing when the temperatures drop. And people say xenophobia does not exist in modern football.

6. Players wearing gloves. Do me a favour.

7. If Jeff Stelling wearing a Christmas hat doesn’t epitomise Christmas, then your parents clearly could not afford Sky. The Christmas music that accompanies all Sky adverts, a novelty snowman kicking around a football, and a montage of Kammy’s gaffs across our screens. This is what European football is missing.

8. Oversized gentleman not adorning any clothes. AKA, fat blokes topless. The supporters from Newcastle & Portsmouth particularly spring to mind.

9. For the lower league fans – tuning your radios for any news as to whether the frozen pitch is playable, for the non-league fans, your team asking for volunteers to help shift the snow.

10. It’s a tradition. Boxing Day football is as much a part of Christmas as Lynx Africa Box Sets, insisting you carve the turkey, & pretending you don’t like Eastenders but secretly cannot wait to find out who killed Archie. You’ll be doing it all again next year so don’t take it away from us with a Winter Break.
 

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I'll never understand why people get pissy over players wearing gloves to keep their hands warm. Real men like to suffer needlessly I guess.
 

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I'll never understand why people get pissy over players wearing gloves to keep their hands warm. Real men like to suffer needlessly I guess.
Real men are hot blooded so don't feel the cold mate :2thumb:, however i can still feel the pain from Jason Humphries volley that hit me right in the face on an ice frozen pitch in school...........i blacked out to the noise of laughter and the shout " STINGER "

never really recovered from it.
 

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I'll never understand why people get pissy over players wearing gloves to keep their hands warm. Real men like to suffer needlessly I guess.

Anything that an give you an extra bit of comfort will give you the edge over an opponent. Seems sensible to me.
 

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I'll never understand why people get pissy over players wearing gloves to keep their hands warm. Real men like to suffer needlessly I guess.

Never understood why anyone wears gloves, surely players are keeping warm by running about. Besides which they never used to wear gloves in the 80s, and the winters were much harsher than they are now.

Bunch of jessies the lot of them.
 

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Never understood why anyone wears gloves, surely players are keeping warm by running about. Besides which they never used to wear gloves in the 80s, and the winters were much harsher than they are now.

Bunch of jessies the lot of them.

Because your extremities can get cold in the winter. If you have poor circulation or blood isn't pumping around your body too quickly then your fingers get cold.

I imagine footballers in the 70s and 80s played with cold hands. And hungover. With poor diets. And poor training regimes and terrible physiotherapy.
 

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Ofcourse they did, cos they were REAL MEN.

I think our current conditions will slowly - through evolution - invert all our genitals. Something needs to be done I reckon.
 

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3. Local or regional derbies throughout the lower leagues. A tradition to limit travelling often means a short distance to watch your team, with the highlight undoubtedly this year being the biggest derby outside the football league with Woking taking on Aldershot on both Boxing Day and the first fixture in the New Year.

:bow:

No bigger game in world football.
 

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I'm glad the issue of glove wearing has been raised, it's an important one. I was regularly told off by my academy coaches as a child/teen (#humblebrag) for wearing them at training. But I found that after running around for 5/10 minutes you soon warmed up and they were no longer needed. So I do find it peculiar when players keep them on for the FULL 90 minutes.

Who else remembers snoods? They were fun while they lasted weren't they?
 

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Snoods made them look even bigger jessies.
 

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Because your extremities can get cold in the winter. If you have poor circulation or blood isn't pumping around your body too quickly then your fingers get cold.

I imagine footballers in the 70s and 80s played with cold hands. And hungover. With poor diets. And poor training regimes and terrible physiotherapy.

Um...... if you have poor circulation, chances are you aren't playing football anyway.
 

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It's a nice Nissan Leaf advert.
 

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