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And our last away game was in 1956, against Swindon. We played them at home the next day

I quite agree. It's sheer hypocrisy for Liverpool to protest this And I wouldn't say the fans are totally blameless either, I bet a large proportion of those moaning have Sky subscriptions. If they really wanted to force change, have a mass cancellation of Sky contracts but we all know they won't.

Blimey, they weren't that local. Bet they didn't get many away fans for those games - Brighton to Port Vale would have taken all day.

I was thinking about the wider Christmas period rather than the day itself. We've certainly played Portsmouth on Boxing Day, I remember a particularly grim visit to the Fratton hell-hole. Didn't there used to be a lot of return fixtures too? We'd play Fulham on Christmas Day at home and go to...

We also had local matches over the Christmas period, so Brighton would play one of the London clubs or Portsmouth. The Lancashire clubs would play each other and so on. I'm not sure why that was stopped. Arsenal v Liverpool may be no-no on Christmas Eve but I bet there'd be no problem with...