WELL HUNG OVER?

I'm off to Bramall Lane with family and friends today (Boxing Day) to enjoy the hospitality of Budweiser at the Blades v Watford Premier League clash. We hope for a stonking game.

On Boxing Day 1979, in the Third Division, Sheffield Wednesday hosted Sheffield United and won 3-0 in front of 49,309 fans. The Steel City derby sent half the city home with a smile.

In 1963, on Boxing Day, the First Division (the old top one) aggregated 66 in 10 matches including Fulham thumping Ipswich, 10-1, the last time a team has scored double figures in the top flight. When they met again later in the season Ipswich won 2-4. The Tractor Boys came root in the First Division:
Playing 42 Winning 9 Drawing 7 Losing 26  Scoring 56 and Conceding 121.
Some scores were: v Arsenal 0-6, v Bolton 0-6, v Liverpool 0-6, v Stoke 1-9, v Tottenham H 3-6
was the Ipswich manager at the time.
A prolific centre-forward, he scored 177 goals in 353 games for Newcastle Utd and remarkably only played 13 times for England scoring 10 goals. His face did not fit! 
He went on to manage Linfield and Yiewsley (who?) before taking on the Ipswich role....nothing after! I think he was not tuned into defensive coaching.

On that day in 1963, 157 goals were scored in 39 matches in the four Football League divisions that day.
The scores in the top division were:
Blackpool 1 Chelsea 5
Burnley 6 Man U 1 (the reverse result on 28th was 1-5)
Leicester 2 Everton 0
Liverpool 6 Stoke 1
Nottingham Forest 3 Sheffield Utd 3
Sheffield Wednesday 3 Bolton W 0
WBA 4 Spurs 4
West Ham 2 Blackburn Rovers 8 (reverse on 28th 3-1)
Wolves 3 Aston Villa 3