Can I just ask generally, don't your wives and girlfriends and family mind you going to an away game on Boxing Day?
I have always done it at home, but of course I am only missing for 2- 21/2 hrs tops. Guessing this is an all dayer usually away from home. I know Port Vale isn't that far, but it must be about 6 hrs turnaround altogether mustn't it? Hour and half to get there, game 2 hrs, hour an half back with no drinks after.
Do the wives, husbands and partners not grumble?
I always hope we are home. We always go out for Boxing Day lunch as a family. If we are at home it's usually 12ish isn't it, so I can juggle things about a bit.Boxing day football home or away has been a tradition for me and a few of few of the family. I always remember my dad taking me to the football when I was a kid and the women traditionally did their own thing, in modern times that being shopping.
For me it is one of two or three fixtures that I look out for at the start of the season.
Jesus man-get some nuts! Who wears the trousers in your house!Can I just ask generally, don't your wives and girlfriends and family mind you going to an away game on Boxing Day?
I have always done it at home, but of course I am only missing for 2- 21/2 hrs tops. Guessing this is an all dayer usually away from home. I know Port Vale isn't that far, but it must be about 6 hrs turnaround altogether mustn't it? Hour and half to get there, game 2 hrs, hour an half back with no drinks after.
Do the wives, husbands and partners not grumble?
It'll be worth it if we get a result!Imagine sacrificing 8 hours picking at the Boxing Day buffet to go to Stoke on Trent/Burslem!
I go every Boxing Day home game. I never do away games anyway, so don't get your point there at all.Jesus man-get some nuts! Who wears the trousers in your house!
Try Liquid Gold on here!No trains unfortunately
If anyone's going from Bristol I'd be up for it
Aye-3-0 to us wasn't it?Otis always hit and miss with me.
If there’s a family thing on I can’t go but when there’s nowt on (like this year) I book it in the diary way in advance. (And obviously soften the blow with a few lovely gestures)
Maybe for another thread but there has been some cracking Boxing Day matches.
One that sticks in my mind was the game against Sheff Utd when Sean Flynn scores a cracker from outside the box.
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No trains unfortunately
If anyone's going from Bristol I'd be up for it
Sorry I’m in deepest Cornwall with the in laws this Christmas. Bugger a 10 and a half hour drive on Boxing Day.Try Liquid Gold on here!
Can I just ask generally, don't your wives and girlfriends and family mind you going to an away game on Boxing Day?
I have always done it at home, but of course I am only missing for 2- 21/2 hrs tops. Guessing this is an all dayer usually away from home. I know Port Vale isn't that far, but it must be about 6 hrs turnaround altogether mustn't it? Hour and half to get there, game 2 hrs, hour an half back with no drinks after.
Do the wives, husbands and partners not grumble?
Can I just ask generally, don't your wives and girlfriends and family mind you going to an away game on Boxing Day?
I have always done it at home, but of course I am only missing for 2- 21/2 hrs tops. Guessing this is an all dayer usually away from home. I know Port Vale isn't that far, but it must be about 6 hrs turnaround altogether mustn't it? Hour and half to get there, game 2 hrs, hour an half back with no drinks after.
Do the wives, husbands and partners not grumble?
Or we will be when the ticket site isn't borked! FFSMy wife is going with me.
The way things are going with Sky won't be long before we've having our games moved to lunchtime on Xmas Day!Can I just ask generally, don't your wives and girlfriends and family mind you going to an away game on Boxing Day?
Used to play on Christmas DayThe way things are going with Sky won't be long before we've having our games moved to lunchtime on Xmas Day!
Ah, but I'm not a working man.It's a working man's right to go out all day on Boxing Day, so home or away doesn't matter
Never had any trouble thereNot bothering with this one. I've been to PV a few times already and its an absolute S*** hole. Not the safest of grounds to visit either which creates a bad atmosphere in the pubs nearby.
Did that end up 0-0? I remember that game. Either 1-1 or 0-0. Can't quite recall exactly.Can you pay on the gate ? Love Boxing Day games. Remember as a kid with my dad and uncle stood on the Spion Kop, Highfield Road packed. One game v Liverpool a great match they had Roger Hunt, Callaghan, Thompson, StJohn. Brian Lewis roughing StJohn up until the fiery Scot threw an uppercut and knocked him spark out. Other than that it was okay !
1-1. Hunt scored for them and I think Hannigan equalised ? Frosty pitch,cigar smoke on the terraces, us kids with new scarves and rattles. Christmas games were special !Did that end up 0-0? I remember that game. Either 1-1 or 0-0. Can't quite recall exactly.
Googled it. 42,000 attendance. Gerry Baker got our goal. What a crowd !Did that end up 0-0? I remember that game. Either 1-1 or 0-0. Can't quite recall exactly.
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