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What happened to football on Christmas Day? The lost history of a Victorian tradition

by Paul Brown @https://twitter.com/@paulbrownuk Published 5 min ago We are part of The Trust Project What is it? For football fans, the Christmas period serves up a real festive feast, with fixtures stuffed into the calendar like sage and onion into a turkey’s nether regions. Christmas Day, however, is a football-free zone, with supporters left to sit indoors and endure the Queen’s speech, cracker jokes and kisses from elderly relatives. This wasn’t always the case, though – up until the 1950s, football was traditionally played on Christmas Day.  This made a lot of sense, particularly in the early years. Christmas Day was a rare public holiday, and football was one of the few...
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