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  • The Oldie

    SPORT

    Dec 14, 2022 2 minutes

    Fifty-seven years ago, an annual institution died.

    Nobody realised it at the time, but on 25th December 1965 an English football league match was played on Christmas Day for the last ever time. After Blackpool beat Blackburn Rovers 4-2 at Bloomfield Road, only in Scotland did Yuletide fixtures remain, staggering on for another decade.

    It was a rapid decline in tradition. In 1957,

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