Boxing Day 1963 🍻

[Swanjaxs]

When players used to spend Christmas day with the fam

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[WxmJax]

13 of the 20 teams there this season as well. Thankfully they have more local matches now.

 

[K23]

Chelsea to Blackpool is some trek now but in 1963, before we had much of a motorway system, it must have been almost impossible for most folk.

 

[PSumbler]

Wwould have made a hell of a correct score accumulator...

 

[JBT95]

Chelsea to Blackpool is some trek now but in 1963, before we had much of a motorway system, it must have been almost impossible for most folk.

Trains ran everyday, some parts of motorway were open by 1963.

 

[K23]

Chelsea to Blackpool is some trek now but in 1963, before we had much of a motorway system, it must have been almost impossible for most folk.

Trains ran everyday, some parts of motorway were open by 1963.

The "some parts" of what later became the M6, in 1963 consisted of nothing more than the Stafford Bypass, the Preston Bypass and the Lancaster Bypass which weren't even joined together until 1965 while the M1 at that time ended just after Northampton so you still had around 170-odd miles to go to Blackpool with almost no motorway to speak of. Not for the faint hearted.

 

[JesusJack]

Wwould have made a hell of a correct score accumulator...

Knowing my luck, I would have done all of those scores except I would have gone for 10-0 Fulham.

 

[PencoedJack]

Wwould have made a hell of a correct score accumulator...

If I was doing both teams to score Bolton & Everton would of been on my slip without doubt.

 

[J_B]

Wwould have made a hell of a correct score accumulator...

Knowing my luck, I would have done all of those scores except I would have gone for 10-0 Fulham.

And the Ipswich goal would have been three yards offside...

 

[PSumbler]

Knowing my luck, I would have done all of those scores except I would have gone for 10-0 Fulham.

And the Ipswich goal would have been three yards offside...

Even after the VAR review :lol: