Every 12 months the shock Boxing Day 1963 outcomes are revisited – however Harry Redknapp reckons they weren’t even the craziest half.
It’s grow to be custom for that 12 months’s Division One scores from December 26 to be plastered throughout social media when the festive season rolls round. As many as 66 targets flew in throughout the ten fixtures.
Fulham destroyed Ipswich 10-1, West Brom drew 4-4 with Tottenham, Manchester United and Stoke have been on the receiving finish of 6-1 hammerings from Burnley and Liverpool respectively, and West Ham – the place Redknapp was a 16-year-old scholar – have been thumped 8-2 by Blackburn Rovers.
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He was on the Boleyn Ground for the sport, happening to make his first group debut 18 months later. “It was amazing, West Ham getting beat at home to Blackburn Rovers,” Redknapp recalled whereas talking to Daily Star Sport.
But the legendary Premier League supervisor then identified: “The crazy thing was, the return game was two days later up at Blackburn. Two days later you went up and played at Blackburn.”
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Hammers boss Ron Greenwood made only one change to his facet 48 hours later, changing Martin Peters with defensive midfielder Eddie Bovington – which labored a deal with. They exacted a measure of revenge with a 3-1 victory at Ewood Park.
Despite the likes of Pep Guardiola and Jurgen Klopp moaning in regards to the present state of the English fixture schedule, Redknapp reminded us: “People overlook you used to have video games on Christmas Day. Yeah, Christmas Day we truly performed.”
The last festive fixture was performed two years later in 1965, with Blackpool beating Blackburn 4-2 at Bloomfield Road. Since then Boxing Day has grow to be the main focus of soccer followers’ consideration.
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“People love Boxing Day games,” Redknapp continued. “You have people say that ‘we shouldn’t play Boxing Day’, people love Boxing Day.
“The crowds on Boxing Day are the largest crowds of the 12 months. And you recognize, folks need to get out. They’ve been sitting indoors all Christmas Day they wanna get out, they wanna go to a sporting occasion.
“It’s the identical in [horse] racing, at Kempton Park, the King George, it is packed. People go racing on Boxing Day, they go to soccer.
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“People love to get out of the house. They’ve been sitting around watching TV. You know any sporting event is the biggest sellout day of the year on Boxing Day, so you’ve got to have boxing day football for sure.”
Redknapp was lastly in a position to calm down over the Christmas interval after calling time on his managerial profession in 2017. But the 76-year-old just lately returned to the dugout to take cost of Specsavers’ Best Worst Team, Cwm Albion.
You can comply with Cwm’s progress with Redknapp as their supervisor on Specsavers’ Best Worst Team YouTube channel, with new superstar fan Michael Fassbender showing within the newest episode right here.