St Boxing day premier league long weekend

everdead.ie

So this is early but I don't expect to be here tomorrow so with Hull, Man U, Arsenal & Villa playing twice in 24 hours expect the unexpected and with everyone else playing monday it makes for an interesting weekend. There is football everyday from sat to wednesday so enjoy.


December 26th
12:45 Birmingham vs Chelsea Away
13:00 Fulham vs Tottenham Away
13:00 West Ham vs Portsmouth Draw
14:00 Burnley vs Bolton Home
15:00 Man City vs Stoke Home
15:00 Sunderland vs Everton Draw
15:00 Wigan vs Blackburn Draw
17:30 Liverpool vs Wolverhampton Draw

Sunday 27th December
13:30 Arsenal vs Aston Villa Draw
16:00 Hull vs Man Utd Away

Monday 28th December
12:45 Tottenham vs West Ham Home
15:00 Blackburn vs Sunderland Home
15:00 Chelsea vs Fulham Home
15:00 Everton vs Burnley Home
15:00 Stoke vs Birmingham Draw
19:45 Wolverhampton vs Man City Draw

Tuesday 29th December
19:45 Aston Villa vs Liverpool Home
20:00 Bolton vs Hull Home


Wednesday 30th December
19:45 Portsmouth vs Arsenal Away
20:00 Man Utd vs Wigan Home

mike65

Its St Stephens's's's day :pac:

God how am I not looking forwards to this, my two teams meet in a duel to the dearth (of good football). At the start of the season I really hoped either could survive a defeat with comfort by this stage. Instead both need points but Liverpool probably need them more, which is not something I expected to type.

December 26th
12:45 Birmingham vs Chelsea Away
13:00 Fulham vs Tottenham Draw
13:00 West Ham vs Portsmouth Draw
14:00 Burnley vs Bolton Home
15:00 Man City vs Stoke Home
15:00 Sunderland vs Everton Draw
15:00 Wigan vs Blackburn Home
17:30 Liverpool vs Wolverhampton Win

Sunday 27th December
13:30 Arsenal vs Aston Villa Draw
16:00 Hull vs Man Utd Away

Monday 28th December
12:45 Tottenham vs West Ham Home
15:00 Blackburn vs Sunderland Draw
15:00 Chelsea vs Fulham Home
15:00 Everton vs Burnley Home
15:00 Stoke vs Birmingham Away
19:45 Wolverhampton vs Man City Draw

Tuesday 29th December
19:45 Aston Villa vs Liverpool Draw
20:00 Bolton vs Hull Draw


Wednesday 30th December
19:45 Portsmouth vs Arsenal Away
20:00 Man Utd vs Wigan Home

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looking forward to the Arsenal vs Aston Villa match

should be a thriller I reckon villa double chance 11/10, looks pretty interesting

leninbenjamin

It's amazing, every time i see the phrase Boxing day i feel like giving one...

December 26th
12:45 Birmingham vs Chelsea Draw
13:00 Fulham vs Tottenham Home
13:00 West Ham vs Portsmouth Home
14:00 Burnley vs Bolton Home
15:00 Man City vs Stoke Draw
15:00 Sunderland vs Everton Draw
15:00 Wigan vs Blackburn Draw
17:30 Liverpool vs Wolverhampton Home

Sunday 27th December
13:30 Arsenal vs Aston Villa Home
16:00 Hull vs Man Utd Away

Monday 28th December
12:45 Tottenham vs West Ham Home
15:00 Blackburn vs Sunderland Draw
15:00 Chelsea vs Fulham Home
15:00 Everton vs Burnley Home
15:00 Stoke vs Birmingham Home
19:45 Wolverhampton vs Man City Away

Tuesday 29th December
19:45 Aston Villa vs Liverpool Draw
20:00 Bolton vs Hull Draw

Wednesday 30th December
19:45 Portsmouth vs Arsenal Away
20:00 Man Utd vs Wigan Home

therokerroar

I love it

Up at 12, small bit of lunch before the Birmingham V Chelsea game, start the drinking of bottles of Budweiser at kick off, watch us get three vital points V Everton and then the evening game between Liverpool and Wolves.

More Turkey and Ham sandwiches before heading off to the pub at about 8, happy after watching the days football and drinking most of the day only to return home about 3am stumbling in the door :cool:

Love it.

joe123

Its called St Stephens day.

for ****s sake that annoys me.

Happy Christmas! More food and drink tomorrow!:D

Gavin "shels"

joe123 wrote: »

Its called St Stephens day.

for ****s sake that annoys me.

Tis, but when posting with regards to British games it would make sense to call it "Boxing Day" as techinally that's when the games are played.

therokerroar

I was born and raised in England though, so still refer to the day as Boxing Day, as it is traditionally known as over there.

Neil3030

Ah lads ffs let's not get bogged down in terminology - the thrust of the man's post is solid (i.e., the glory of having a day of football after Christmas day to look forward to) regardless of whether he calls it Stephen's day, Boxing day or whatever. Let's get off our nationalist high horses, it's Christmas

Liam O

he called it St. Boxing Day...clearly a joke...

mayordenis

Gavin shels wrote: »

Tis, but when posting with regards to British games it would make sense to call it "Boxing Day" as techinally that's when the games are played.

Technically, you're talking ****e.

everdead.ie

I used to hate calling it boxing day untill i found out what it means,
It refers to the day where the higher classes package presents in boxes so they can be easily transported and given to those less fortunate and tbh i was just trying to com up with a mike65(TM) witty title.

Anyway back on topic 3 vital points today please harry.

Lol at some moaning whether it's called St.Stephens or Boxing day or whatever. Who gives a flying fcuk. St.Stephen the boxer

Gavin "shels"

Gavin "shels" wrote: »

Tis, but when posting with regards to British games it would make sense to call it "Boxing Day" as techinally that's when the games are played.

http://actingschmacting.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/broken-record.jpg

therokerroar

therokerroar wrote: »

I was born and raised in England though, so still refer to the day as Boxing Day, as it is traditionally known as over there.

Call it what you want mate. Anyway, I think Chelsea have two very tough fixtures over the xmas period and I'm predicting them to drop at least 2 points.

ShoulderChip

whats going on are none of these games on live on sky today?

I thought it would be a special day with them all on.

Liam O

ShoulderChip wrote: »

whats going on are none of these games on live on sky today?

I thought it would be a special day with them all on.

meh, Soccer Saturday is enough for me tbh, they have United tomorrow so I don't care. Kamara in the studio

mayordenis

chelsea vs brum on ESPN at 12:45
Man City vs Stoke on Setanta Ireland at 3
Pool vs Wolves ESPN 5 something

IvySlayer

Yeahhh Kammys in the Studio :pac:

mike65

No Soccer Saturday on RTE 2

Liam O

Should say in case anyone hasn't heard that Setanta Ireland is unscrambled on Sky for today so the City-Stoke game is free to watch.

everdead.ie

Ref blows the wistle seconds before crouch puts the ball in the net for a spurs free kick kranjcar shoots wide with the free

Thrill

West Ham go 1-0 up over Portsmouth. Alessandro Diamanti scores from the penalty spot.

Spiritoftheseventies

First time i have heard anyone call it St Boxing day. who knows it might catch on.

Xavi6

Dempsey smashes the bar with a free kick for Fulham

Spiritoftheseventies

Yes big few days for Villa. We will know more about them after Wednesday in terms of their top for credentials.

Hammer Archer

Dindane can count himself a little lucky to be still on the field. 2 poor challenges to get his yellow and has had 3 fouls and a handball given against him since then.
Parkers running the show for us yet again. I'm praying he isn't sold in January

mike65

Goals at a premium so far. Just the one - a peno for West Ham

mike65

Bolton one up, Matt Taylor

Sounds like Fulham are doing everthing except win the game. edit 0-0 FT

Hammer Archer

Kovac made it 2-0
First clean sheet for us since the first day of the season.

Paul Tergat

kenwyne jones just put in a quality ball for Bent to score, really was a stunning ball in. 1-0 sunderland

The Volt

Bah. Hoofball

All Everton at the moment.

Kev_ps3

St Stephens Day over here buddy

Spiritoftheseventies

p_larkin99 wrote: »

kenwyne jones just put in a quality ball for Bent to score, really was a stunning ball in. 1-0 sunderland

Hows A reid doing?

Paul Tergat

bayviewclose wrote: »

Hows A reid doing?

He's playing ok.

Had a free kick maybe 20-22 yards out saved 'off the line' (was a lot more comfortable than this sounds). He will always be a danger when given time to pick a ball out/delivery from set piece.

Sunderland need to get him on the ball a bit more and I'd prefer to see him playing a bit more central to be honest.

greendom

Kev_ps3 wrote: »

St Stephens Day over here buddy

Bit of a humour by-pass too

The Volt

1-1 Everton

Fellaini 85.

Well deserved equalizer. all to play for

Spiritoftheseventies

greendom wrote: »

Bit of a humour by-pass too

So who was this St Boxing chap anyway?

greendom

bayviewclose wrote: »

So who was this St Boxing chap anyway?

I don't know but I don't think he's very popular in Ireland.

mike65

Bump!

Chelsea 0 1 Fulham

Blackburn - Sunderland
Chelsea - Fulham
Everton - Burnley
Stoke - Birmingham
Tottenham 2- 0 West Ham FT
Wolves - Man City

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go wan fulham

SlickRic

thought i'd post this here, as it's mildly related.

there seems to be some needle between Jeff Stelling and Phil Thompson on Soccer Saturday.

d22ontour

Taken from BBC Football:

1513: Didier Drogba is caught by a flailing John Pantsil arm, and goes down like he's been murdered. As well as being a magnificent footballer, he does do theatrics beautifully. He's OK.

mike65

Stelling and Thommo having a laugh about it now.

Peyton Manning

SlickRic wrote: »

thought i'd post this here, as it's mildly related.

there seems to be some needle between Jeff Stelling and Phil Thompson on Soccer Saturday.

Rofl, did you hear what Stelling just said? "Phil I must apologise, I didnt mean to alert any burglars to the fact youre house will be empty tomorrow..." Classic! What a show, nothing better on a Saturday when theres no footie on the box,

eoin99

Irish youngster David Meyler starting for Sunderland today...think its his first team debut

SlickRic

Archimedes wrote: »

Rofl, did you hear what Stelling just said? "Phil I must apologise, I didnt mean to alert any burglars to the fact youre house will be empty tomorrow..." Classic! What a show, nothing better on a Saturday when theres no footie on the box,

ha, i missed that making myself a bit of grub.

damn,

it's essential viewing, no joke.

even something mundane like merson trying to pronounce bilahet(whatever)...was just wonderful television.

Peyton Manning

SlickRic wrote: »

ha, i missed that making myself a bit of grub.

damn,

it's essential viewing, no joke.

even something mundane like merson trying to pronounce bilahet(whatever)...was just wonderful television.

lol it was hilarious, Thommo just kept putting his hand to his mouth and laughing "I cant believe you just said that.....I...I cant believe you just said that". Great show, it feels like ya actually know the lads!

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Very low scoring in the three o'clock games.

Bukman13

eoin99 wrote: »

Irish youngster David Meyler starting for Sunderland today...think its his first team debut

Daryl Murphy getting a rare start for Sunderland too.

mike65

Brum score - Jerome