Boxing Day away, 6 years in a row
Armagideon Time
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When the 2012-13 fixtures came out earlier this week, my team, Swindon Town, are scheduled to play Leyton Orient away on Boxing Day, meaning that this would be the SIXTH successive year that we would be scheduled to have a Boxing Day away fixture (we were also away at Leyton Orient on Boxing Day in 2008). Is this a record for a consecutive number of years that a club has been scheduled to play away on Boxing Day? Plus for the fifth season in a row, our final League fixture is also away...
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On the flip side though you have probably been at home for most of the last 6 New Year fixtures?
at least your not playing cov because we will smash you!
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Yes, but it would be nice to have a bit of balance of a Boxing Day home fixture and a New Years Day away fixture!
No.
So are you looking forward to life in League 1 then? There'll be lots of new grounds for you and your fellow CCFC fans to visit. In a way, that's one of the benefits of relegation as you'll get loads going to away games, so people can top their "grounds visited" portfolio. It happened with us last season; we had four-figure followings at places like Burton, Aldershot, Gillingham and Bradford and I'm sure you'll take plenty of four-figure followings to most of the League 1 grounds this coming season. Good luck!
Make that 7, yes SEVEN years in a row Swindon have been scheduled to be away on Boxing Day:mad:::(
Is there any other league club out there who have not had a scheduled home Boxing Day fixture since 2006?
Cue someone posting fixture lists of the last 15 years to prove I'm a paranoid git
Against Stoke, who have two away games at opposite ends of the country within 48 hours of each other.
They had a home game against Man City on Boxing Day 2010.
I must admonish my numerically dyslexic friends
But it was 9 years after the last one still!
That's really harsh on Newcastle to have that many away Boxing Day games in a row.
I can only assume that as a result Sunderland had 9 in a row. Not sure how fixture computers work but I assume Newcastle and Sunderland are both paired even when not in the same division (at Northumbria Police request)
So are there any other clubs out there (besides Swindon) who have not had a scheduled home Boxing Day fixture since 2006 or have been away on Boxing Day for 7 years or more previously?