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Good point, that. Would have been easy to fix - could even make it a feature by having the home and away fixtures back-to-back over the holiday period.

Yes, not that local really then. Difference was, of course, that there were special trains laid on for football fans (and generally extra trains over the holiday period anyway).

Yes, I remember Boxing Days vs. Portsmouth too. I was wrong about never having played back-to-back Christmas and Boxing Day fixtures against them though; we did, once - in 1922, before they soared away to higher divisions (NB I don't actually remember that - had to look it up!) Fulham on...

I hadn't thought about the local fixtures aspect of the Christmas Day fixtures, though you may well be right. Our's seemed to be usually against Reading (easy train journey, just change at Redhill). Wouldn't have been Portsmouth though - we weren't in the same division as them back in the days...

Yes, but back in the days of Christmas Day football (with the return fixture on Boxing Day), we used to have extra trains over the Christmas period, not no trains.

Stoke vs. West Brom. is the obvious choice. With Liverpool all the way on this one. Besides, do we need a football match on Christmas Eve anyway? Most of us have plenty of other things to do on that particular day.