Port Vale - Boxing Day (8 Viewers)
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no_loyalty
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We usually get a 3,500-4,000 allocation for Port Vale, don't we?
Otis
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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 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?
letsallsingtogether
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Boxing day is a must for any true fan
I have zbeen doing them for over 25 years.....
In fact the whole Xmas period is a must you would go insane sitting in the house all that time.
I have zbeen doing them for over 25 years.....
In fact the whole Xmas period is a must you would go insane sitting in the house all that time.
Nick
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Wife is working boxing day, so am I so will have to do with iFollow!
When I was younger Boxing day you could go out and come home new years eve for a shower to go back out again but not now.
If I wasn't working I could have gone, if it was home I could have gone and been on call
When I was younger Boxing day you could go out and come home new years eve for a shower to go back out again but not now.
If I wasn't working I could have gone, if it was home I could have gone and been on call
pusbccfc
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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.
Otis
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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.
Adge
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Jesus man-get some nuts! Who wears the trousers in your house!
no_loyalty
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You can't beat a bit of festive footy, apart from spending Christmas day with family, there is not much else to do
I_Saw_Shaw_Score
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Imagine sacrificing 8 hours picking at the Boxing Day buffet to go to Stoke on Trent/Burslem!
Adge
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It'll be worth it if we get a result!
Otis
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I go every Boxing Day home game. I never do away games anyway, so don't get your point there at all.
I always go on Boxing Day games here and just get the family to change our meal times when we are at home.
Try Liquid Gold on here!
Fergusons_Beard
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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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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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Adge
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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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Liquid Gold
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Sorry I’m in deepest Cornwall with the in laws this Christmas. Bugger a 10 and a half hour drive on Boxing Day.
fernandopartridge
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It's a working man's right to go out all day on Boxing Day, so home or away doesn't matter
My wife is going with me.
Or we will be when the ticket site isn't borked! FFS
chiefdave
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The way things are going with Sky won't be long before we've having our games moved to lunchtime on Xmas Day!
Broken Hearted Sky Blue
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Used to play on Christmas Day
Otis
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Ah, but I'm not a working man.
letsallsingtogether
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Should have had it out in your vows.
My wife knew what she was getting into......
Still have to ask/tell her in a :"do you mind if I" baby tone
My wife knew what she was getting into......
Still have to ask/tell her in a :"do you mind if I" baby tone
Broken Hearted Sky Blue
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Never had any trouble there
bringbackrattles
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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 !
Otis
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Did that end up 0-0? I remember that game. Either 1-1 or 0-0. Can't quite recall exactly.
bringbackrattles
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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 !
bringbackrattles
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Googled it. 42,000 attendance. Gerry Baker got our goal. What a crowd !