Boxing Day

[Cerberus Blade]

i must admit I'm a bit disappointed it's a home game. I prefer away games on Boxing Day because it gives me an excuse to get away from extended family for a whole day. There's no better feeling than waking up on Boxing Day morning and looking forward to a road trip with mates and restoring a bit of sanity to the Christmas period.

"I won't be back in time for Boxing Day tea with Uncle Horace and Aunty Mabel but give them my love and tell them thank you for those knee length grey socks that they bought me this year. Tell them I will put them at the top of my sock drawer along with the knee length grey socks they bought me last year. And ask them if they've got the receipt just in case they don't fit?"

I know. I'm an ungrateful bugger. But as things stand I'll have no excuse not to be back home for tea and Uncle Horace will say -"Arv they gorron?". Then, "who were they playin?" And then he'll say..."They should have beat them! (Even if we've won). "Always been a selling club thanuz Sheffield United". And then he'll tell me a story from 50 years ago about how we could have won the World Cup if we hadn't sold our best player.

"Like bloody lightning he were! If they'd kept him they'd have never been in this mess. Always same wi United thanuz? They'll never win owt! What's it cost to wetch em these days? .....Eeh! Tha must have got more money than bloody sense! Tha could get another 10 pairs o grey socks for that!". Then he'll laugh out loud like I'm some kind of retard that's been had. And Aunty Mabel will say, "well I think it's lovely that he supports his local team, what division are they in now love?"

And I'll say "League 1" and Aunty Mabel will say, "Ooh that's good then in't it love? Top division an all! I don't blame yer duck! You keep supporting 'em if it makes yer 'appy!"

And then she'll tell me about some new sherry glasses Uncle Horace bought her for Christmas (again). "You can never have enough because you never know when folks might drop in".

Uncle Horace sits there in my chair in front of the telly flicking over the channels as she speaks.

"Nowt on telly these days eh? All them bloody channels and all that muck! I remember when....


AAARGH!

See what I mean?

 

[Foxy]

**Rant about Port Vale and getting stranded all night in the snow**

 

[CarlingBlade]

Tell em its away, stay in the pub.

Simple solutions.

 

[Blackheath Blade]

Does your Uncle Horace post on here? He sounds like he'd be a natural in the Shoutbox on a Saturday afternoon.

 

[west_yorks_blade]

**Rant about Port Vale and getting stranded all night in the snow**

Yeah me too. Boxing Day forever associated with that nightmare return from port vale.

 

[spongebobblade]

What with Port Vale and last seasons Wigan game postponed at the last minute, will be nice to just watch the blades and with no hassle!

 

[maidmarion]

Driving as I do, from Nottingham, all home matches are like away matches.
I do like a game on Boxing Day tho....especially if it's nice and cold....all family comes, pint in the pub .....one of the highlights of Christmas.

 

[FriethBlade]

Crowd estimate ? I reckon 25,247

 

[curly]

Crowd estimate ? I reckon 25,247

What if we lose our next 3?

 

[Beat Jedi]

I'm fucking working. Got Xmas day off but working Boxing Day. Wish it was the other way round. Never mind next year I get to work both....like last year. FFS.

 

[wizadry]

I'm fucking working. Got Xmas day off but working Boxing Day. Wish it was the other way round. Never mind next year I get to work both....like last year. FFS.

It's a fucker being a funeral director!

 

[FriethBlade]

What if we lose our next 3?

We won't...but if we do 23,879

 

[Harry's Game]

I must have entered a parallel Universe here a Boxing Day Home fixture is one of the highlights of the season surely? especially since we have recently managed to to get the Police to allow 3pm kick offs and not the midday farces we had to endure a few years back.

 

[blade.i.am]

Major ructions chez I.am over this one. Thought we'd all agreed to go until sister in law tried to lure Mrs.i.am over to Warrington for a buffet and family gathering. Although she weakened the kids held out for going to the match.
As a compromise we are all going to the Lane and then heading west straight after, which means no ale for the named driver (me).
My only concern is how many Oldham fans will we be sharing the Snake Pass with?

 

[dublin 10 blade]

Boxing Day FFS , forever in my mind is that horrible day ( from a sports point of view ) etched deep into my memory as a youngster .
The walk of shame from the uncertified death trap , the glee in my dad and younger brothers faces ( both of the pork ) as I walked in the front door .
Another good one is the 6.30 set off to Fulham away for an early kickoff which we lost 2-1 followed by my mate almost getting nicked for robbing a bottle of champagne for the trip home .
Don't get me wrong I've seen us win many a time on Boxing Day ( or St Stephens day ) as it's known over here ,
but for a split second , every year on that day , the sight of the cunt curran sliding towards us in celebration sends a shiver down my spine .

 

[bornablade]

Boxing Day FFS , forever in my mind is that horrible day ( from a sports point of view ) etched deep into my memory as a youngster .
The walk of shame from the uncertified death trap , the glee in my dad and younger brothers faces ( both of the pork ) as I walked in the front door .
Another good one is the 6.30 set off to Fulham away for an early kickoff which we lost 2-1 followed by my mate almost getting nicked for robbing a bottle of champagne for the trip home .
Don't get me wrong I've seen us win many a time on Boxing Day ( or St Stephens day ) as it's known over here ,
but for a split second , every year on that day , the sight of the cunt curran sliding towards us in celebration sends a shiver down my spine .

Agree. I walk around the house on Boxing Day wearing a black arm band. I want to start the day with a minutes silence but the wife says I'm taking things too far.

I can hear my 'Aunty Mabel' whispering to the wife 'Isn't it time he got over that?'

They just don't understand.

 

[SwissBlade]

I'd rather have a home game on Boxing day, if i'm home. Such a ball ache to travel when they run a reduced train service etc.

Give me a home game and a full session or an away game and i'll stay at home/ go to the pub and follow the scores on the phone

 

[Canterbury Blade]

i must admit I'm a bit disappointed it's a home game. I prefer away games on Boxing Day because it gives me an excuse to get away from extended family for a whole day. There's no better feeling than waking up on Boxing Day morning and looking forward to a road trip with mates and restoring a bit of sanity to the Christmas period.

"I won't be back in time for Boxing Day tea with Uncle Horace and Aunty Mabel but give them my love and tell them thank you for those knee length grey socks that they bought me this year. Tell them I will put them at the top of my sock drawer along with the knee length grey socks they bought me last year. And ask them if they've got the receipt just in case they don't fit?"

I know. I'm an ungrateful bugger. But as things stand I'll have no excuse not to be back home for tea and Uncle Horace will say -"Arv they gorron?". Then, "who were they playin?" And then he'll say..."They should have beat them! (Even if we've won). "Always been a selling club thanuz Sheffield United". And then he'll tell me a story from 50 years ago about how we could have won the World Cup if we hadn't sold our best player.

"Like bloody lightning he were! If they'd kept him they'd have never been in this mess. Always same wi United thanuz? They'll never win owt! What's it cost to wetch em these days? .....Eeh! Tha must have got more money than bloody sense! Tha could get another 10 pairs o grey socks for that!". Then he'll laugh out loud like I'm some kind of retard that's been had. And Aunty Mabel will say, "well I think it's lovely that he supports his local team, what division are they in now love?"

And I'll say "League 1" and Aunty Mabel will say, "Ooh that's good then in't it love? Top division an all! I don't blame yer duck! You keep supporting 'em if it makes yer 'appy!"

And then she'll tell me about some new sherry glasses Uncle Horace bought her for Christmas (again). "You can never have enough because you never know when folks might drop in".

Uncle Horace sits there in my chair in front of the telly flicking over the channels as she speaks.

"Nowt on telly these days eh? All them bloody channels and all that muck! I remember when....


AAARGH!

See what I mean?

Ah but for those of us who have moved away a home game on Boxing Day means we can see the Blades.

The current Missus Canterbury gave her Grade 2 stare, wither me down and turn to stone look when I suggest going away on Boxing Day. It took loads of rows, persuasion and 'stuff' before she agreed to my Wigan trip last year and then the fecking weather koboshed it. Wives don't give refunds....

Plus public transport doesn't work. Loads easier waking up at the mother in laws and walking to the Lane via all the boozers of my youth (well the ones left). The lack of transport also means if I walk quickly I can get a couple more pints in The Byron before I return to her Mums.

Home game every time for us exiles..

 

[Sirius]

It's a fucker being a funeral director![/QUOTE

Funeral director s are the last people to let ou down

 

[Sirius]

Agree. I walk around the house on Boxing Day wearing a black arm band. I want to start the day with a minutes silence but the wife says I'm taking things too far.

I can hear my 'Aunty Mabel' whispering to the wife 'Isn't it time he got over that?'

They just don't understand.

Just tell them about the epic 7 a 3 pig roast

 

[Pollingtonblade]

Given the trains and their selfishness in shutting its rubbish either way.

 

[I should coco]

Plus public transport doesn't work. Loads easier waking up at the mother in laws and walking to the Lane via all the boozers of my youth (well the ones left). The lack of transport also means if I walk quickly I can get a couple more pints in The Byron before I return to her Mums.

Well the Broadfield and Union must be jut about en route so all is not completely lost.

Remember DirtyLeeds 1989, RedScouse 1992(?) and of course for the wrong reason, the Pig in 1979. My mate's dad came home and took the tree down telling the family thta "Christmas is over".

 

[coaxingstar71]

Always causes a stir in our house as mrs coaxing thinks that all footie should be banned at Christmas and New Year. I managed a trade that I'd go on Boxing Day but not New Years Eve, because she wants to go round Castleton. I really need to grow some don't I?

 

[TJB.]

As it was, I was banned from going on Boxing Day by the missus because we go to our respective families on Xmas day, so Boxing Day is 'our' Christmas if that makes sense.

However, this year I'm going round her folks' for a bit in the morning and she's nipping to mine I'm the evening, and I've also agreed to her having her Russian course mate round ours in the evening as she's not going back to the motherland over the hols.

That plus the fact I'm missing the Swindon game means I've got a LOT of leverage defo be at the Lane!

 

[Jehovah]

Taking my brother and his Bolivian girlfriend who is now an adopted blade. She's driving around reading with blades stickers in the car and has got her family in Bolivia face timing singing the GCB!

 

[Longtimesupporter]

Driving as I do, from Nottingham, all home matches are like away matches.
I do like a game on Boxing Day tho....especially if it's nice and cold....all family comes, pint in the pub .....one of the highlights of Christmas.

I'm the same. I drive from Derby.

 

[moDtheGod]

I shall be putting in my first appearance of the season on Boxing Day and then following up with a trip to Bury, since I will be in the country for a couple of weeks over the festive period.

So you know who to blame when we lose both.

(I will be in London for the Northampton match so maybe we'll win then!)

 

[wizadry]

However, this year I'm going round her folks' for a bit in the morning and she's nipping to mine in the evening, and I've also agreed to her having her Russian course mate round ours in the evening

I never had you down as a three some kind of bloke TJB?

 

[TJB.]

I never had you down as a three some kind of bloke TJB?

I'm not. I'll be too pissed and full of grub to engage in any sexual activity.

Happy to leave the ladies to it while I set up the camera.

 

[west_yorks_blade]

I'm not. I'll be too pissed and full of grub to engage in any sexual activity.

Happy to leave the ladies to it while I set up the camera.

I don't blame you - a Russian Coarse mate - she'll just be swearing at you in Russian.
Mind you - some people like that sort of thing.