ON THIS DAY

This day in 1965 saw the last Football League match played on Christmas Day – Blackpool 4 Blackburn Rovers 2 in front of 20,851 at Bloomfield Road.

Jimmy Greaves scored his first League hat-trick (he eventually scored 4) in Chelsea's 7-4 victory over Portsmouth at Stamford Bridge on Christmas Day 1957 .

Not a happy Christmas Day for Wrexham’s Ambrose Wilson in a Division 3 (North) match at Hull City – he was sent off after just 20 seconds!

Leicester City’s John Duncan scored a club record six goals in the 7-0 Second Division defeat of Port Vale at Filbert Street on Christmas Day 1924. The scorer of the seventh goal that day - Arthur Chandler - later equalled that record scoring 6 in Leicester's club record 10-0 League victory over Portsmouth in October 1928.

After losing 14 Division 2 matches and drawing 5 – and not scoring a goal in the last 11 of those matches - Coventry City finally won their first match of the season, 3-2 against Stoke at Highfield Road. The following day they lost 6-1 at Stoke in the return fixture.