Off Topic The Christmas Thread

Just lit the fire. Santa's about to get filthy

 

Merry Christmas everyone, I hope you all have a wonderful day, and 3 points tomorrow will make for a perfect time.

 

I hope everyone on here has an amazing and positive time at Christmas. We all have different opinions, some of us wind each other up, but when it comes down to it, I love this board, it’s the best. I’ve not had a lot of time for it for various reasons this past year, but I always know I can come back to it and it’ll make me smile.

Let’s make the UK a better place next year, and hopefully City too.

I was at the Edinburgh Christmas markets on Sunday and met a guy with a Hull City woolly hat on. It’s always comforting to see, especially when I live so far away.

Merry Christmas everyone to you and your families.

 

I hope Santa leaves me a skinny body and a fat wallet, not the other way around like it was last year.

Merry Christmas

 

Just noticed the washing up bowl’s missing.

At least one of lads has overindulged last night.

 

lynx Africa !! Get in
And yes that is me

 

Isn't that Happy Tiger?

 

How Hull City used to postpone the turkey and crackers for action on Christmas Day
The Tigers drew 1-1 with Gateshead on December 25, 1957

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Hull City supporters pictured at Boothferry Park in 1957-58, the last season to play host to a Christmas Day fixture
Presents in the morning, turkey and trimmings for lunch and then what? Hull City supporters can slump into the sofa this afternoon with a drink in hand but 62 years ago their forefathers might well have been considering a trip to Boothferry Park.

December 25, 1957 was the last time City were in action on Christmas Day. A 1-1 draw with Gateshead in Division Three (North) lured just under 9,000 supporters out of their homes but those hardy souls can claim the honour of seeing a red letter day in City’s history.

As preposterous as it might sound in modern times, Christmas Day used to play host to a full round of fixtures in England and Scotland.

Burslem Port Vale were City’s first opponents on the sacred day of 1905, before the likes of Lincoln City, Bradford Park Avenue and Birmingham City all provided Christmas Day opposition during the Tigers’ first decade in the Football League.

Geography was no consideration in those early days either. Chelsea were visitors to East Yorkshire in 1906 before City headed to West London three years later to face Fulham. No one could even blame Sky Sports for the inconvenience back then.

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Boothferry Park, Hull City's former home, under deep snow in 1947 (Image: Hull Daily Mail)
City were back in the capital for a Christmas Day game away to Tottenham in 1919 but that was just the start of it for David Menzies’ men over those festive days. Spurs accompanied the Tigers home to Anlaby Road for the Boxing Day game before City were back in action again on December 27.

Did fatigue become a factor? A 10-3 win over Wolves would suggest not.

Sixteen of the next 20 Christmas Days saw City in action before World War Two interrupted all walks of life but football’s boom of the late 1940s soon drew huge crowds to the Tigers’ festive fixtures.

A remarkable attendance of 49,655 saw City beat Rotherham United 3-2 at Boothferry Park on Christmas Day of 1948.

The two Yorkshire rivals were battling for promotion out of Division Three (North) and a City side aiming high under Raich Carter would draw the return leg 0-0 at Millmoor on Boxing Day. Over 70,000 supporters clicked through the turnstiles of both games in a season that concluded with the Tigers claiming a place in Division Two.

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Harold Needler (left) and Raich Carter worked together to draw a crowd of almost 50,000 to watch Hull City on Christmas Day in 1948
But Boothferry Park would not open its gates again on Christmas Day until 1957, the final year of a full schedule in English football.

A 1-1 draw with Gateshead ensured David Fraser was the last City player to score on Christmas Day, with the likes of Andy Davidson, Bill Bradbury and Paul Feasey also in action for Bill Brocklebank’s men.

Plenty of footballers up and down the land will either be travelling or training today but supporters will have to wait until tomorrow’s visit of Nottingham Forest to get their fix.

 

Good article. Can you put a copy onto the Tigers' History thread TC ?
Cheers.
tc

 

Your photo shows a bottle of tawny port, not vintage port. 40 years refers to the average length of time the blended wines have spent in barrels before bottling. Vintage port is only declared in exceptional years and develops a sediment in the bottle. Tawny port is lighter in colour because it loses colour owing to the time it has spent in the barrel. It can be drunk straight from the bottle as there is no sediment - but only by consenting adults in the privacy of their own home. If you have not yet drunk it, I suggest trying it with mince pies.

I believe the reason wine bottles evolved to a standard 70/75cl is that that was the typical lung capacity of an artisan glassblower.

Merry Christmas.

 

Happy Christmas to one and all, and a happy, healthy, prosperous and promotion winning 2020.

PS OLM, come see me before the end of December, we all have targets to hit

 

Merry Christmas & and a healthy peaceful New Year to you and yours.

 

Merry Christmas everybody
I'll try to smile next year!

 

Merry Christmas to you. Who's that miserable old twat in the photo? Not a very good Christmas Card.

 

Merry Christmas one and all.

We must be a bunch of sad bastards coming on here on Christmas Day......or are we all our real friends !

 

None of us have any friends obvs.

 

it’s a filling your time whilst having a **** thing.

 

Make that back to back triple quiz champions, get in there!!

 

Any sample questions for us??