The Fifth Official

Boxing Day bonanza

December 27, 2011
By The Fifth Official
(Archive)
If the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again even if you know it is bad for you, then the Christmas fixture list should be a real beacon of warning for the game in this country. While the sensible competitions around the continent put their feet up, we plough on with a gruelling schedule of four games in ten days even though we know it is slowly pulling our footballers limbs apart one by one.

Back in the even more insane days, teams used to square up against ...

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