Guest Neo Posted December 24, 2003 Share Posted December 24, 2003 Forgetting all the sacred day, everybody has the right and wants to be with family etc etc; purely hypothetical. If City had a game at the Gate tomorrow @ 3pm; who would go? Personally I would love it as normally i've had enough of what I find (with kids) to be a long day by the time dinner is eaten. Would love to have that release to look forward to. Boxing Day has always been a day (for my family anyway) to go to the local, have a steak and get bladdered, hence, I can't normally make a game that day. So would it be a big crowd or would too many not attend for the reasons at the top? :Confused13: :Confused13: :Confused13: By the way, Merry bloody Christmas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Claverham_Red Posted December 24, 2003 Share Posted December 24, 2003 i would never miss it. to me it would be a great christmas present seeing us winning! Merry Christmas to all the people from the forum Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2iamdavies Posted December 24, 2003 Share Posted December 24, 2003 It would be nice, i would be in 2 minds weather to go or not, more of a yes. But the rest of the day could suck, if we lost or got absolutely thrashed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TinnionForEngland Posted December 24, 2003 Share Posted December 24, 2003 I would definitely be there! i would like it to be 3pm as my christmas is very usally over by then, presents, food etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Of The Dolman Posted December 24, 2003 Share Posted December 24, 2003 I would go there might be a bit of atmosphere as well! I think that would be a good way to spend christmas whether it home or away match Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CTID 7 Posted December 24, 2003 Share Posted December 24, 2003 I'd Defiantly go, after a big x-mas dinner of course Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cider red Posted December 24, 2003 Share Posted December 24, 2003 I would probably go , although my mum takes so long cooking the dinner that it wouldnt be ready in time!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest cider gliders Posted December 24, 2003 Share Posted December 24, 2003 They always used ta play on Christmas day yers ago! We the remember in the 1957/58 season we beat Derby County 2-1 on Christmas day at the Gate, and we went ta Derby the next day (Boxing Day) and lost 5-2! In they days we was never home fer Christmas! Got us out the house though!! Ha-Ha! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elhombrecito Posted December 24, 2003 Share Posted December 24, 2003 I'd be there - providing I could fit it in around my Crimbo dinner of course! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ballwinningcentrehalf Posted December 24, 2003 Share Posted December 24, 2003 why not having a match kicking off midnight on the morning of the 25th, a la Barcelona's league game earlier on this season... would beat Midnight mass anyway! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Neo Posted December 24, 2003 Share Posted December 24, 2003 why not having a match kicking off midnight on the morning of the 25th, a la Barcelona's league game earlier on this season... would beat Midnight mass anyway! Now that would be class. Just about now would be heading off to the Red n White bar for a couple via chip shop. Instead the missus is watching the Real beckhams and i'm about to chisel the carrots so it looks like thet got teeth-marks! Can life get any sadder? :Confused13: Actually could be worse, I could spend half my life on one of those internet forum thingys. D'oh! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cheshire_red Posted December 24, 2003 Share Posted December 24, 2003 Knowing the workings of the Football League we would probably be away at Hartlepool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
potbelly Posted December 24, 2003 Share Posted December 24, 2003 You wouldn`t see me there, Bristol City Football Club have given me many highs and too many good memories to count, but if it is a choice between football and family, my wife and kids are always No 1. Have a great xmas everyone. Potbelly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Neo Posted December 26, 2003 Share Posted December 26, 2003 You wouldn`t see me there, Bristol City Football Club have given me many highs and too many good memories to count, but if it is a choice between football and family, my wife and kids are always No 1. Have a great xmas everyone. Potbelly. Agreed Potbelly family comes first; always. The ONLY reason i'm not going to Brentford today. In my case it wouldn't be about putting my family 2nd (albeit didn't make that clear with orig. post). I asked the wife shortly after reading your response what she would say if I went to watch City next Christmas Day (at home). She replied "we'll all go provided we have opened the presents and had some food". Bring it on I say!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
22A Posted December 26, 2003 Share Posted December 26, 2003 As the Cider Gliders point out, clubs used to play on Christmas Day and have the return fixture on Boxing Day. Look through the record books and it was amazing how ofetn a team would win, say 4-1 and then lose 4-1 in the return! That sort of thing hapenened when City played Plymuff one Easter. Tony Cook in goal for the game we lost, (and he always denied stories that he was drunk that day), Bob Anderson was goalie the next day. Getting back to the theme, I think the last year of a full fixture list on Christmas day was 1958, but so many fans reckoned it was spoiling Christmas Lunch, the practice was discontinued. Saw some of those part timers yesterday! A load of people who we don't see any other time of time of the year turned up at our Church as it was Christmas Day! Seasonal greetings to one and all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest SteveinNC Posted December 26, 2003 Share Posted December 26, 2003 You wouldn`t see me there, Bristol City Football Club have given me many highs and too many good memories to count, but if it is a choice between football and family, my wife and kids are always No 1. Have a great xmas everyone. Potbelly. I live in the USA, but if I was in Bristol for Christmas I would tell my American wife that watching footy on Christmas day was a British tradition Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chalky Posted December 26, 2003 Share Posted December 26, 2003 I'd be there difinately!!!!!!!!!!!! Be better i recon as long as it was a 3ish kick off prefered to a 12 kick off although i'd be there whatever time. Like TFE said christmas is over come the afternoon and drag on too long i recon anyway. Thank god christmas comes only once a year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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