SHOE BOXING v HAT BOXING

Boxing Day 1999, Chelsea played Southampton away in a League game and won 2-1. The team was thus:-
de Goey, Ferrer, Babayaro, Thome, Leboeuf, Petrescu, Deschamps, di Matteo, Ambrosetti, Poyet, Flo: Manager Vialli. Spot the Briton.
They were on the subs bench!

The first Sheffield Derby in the THIRD division took place at Hillsborough on Boxing Day 1979. Wednesday won 4-0 in front of a record crowd of 49,309.

In 1927, on Boxing Day,  Syd Reid scored four goals in the first half for Luton Town in a Division 3 South League game and gave The Hatters a 4-1 lead, at the County Ground. By the end of the match Northampton had won 6-5. Just over 10,000 watched this game. The Hatters got their name from the straw-plaiters that were made in the town since the 17th Century-see badge and the founding date 1885.
 
The Cobblers came from the boot and shoe industry sited in Northampton since before the industrial revolution. The club was founded in 1897.
note the shoe on the central part of the badge.

There was a 1-0 win to Luton at home on Christmas Day 1929, a 4-1 win for the Cobblers the next day and 2-2 draw on Boxing Day at Luton in 1997.
Overall the Cobblers have won 21 matches between the two and drawn 7 with Luton edging them with 28 victories.