Boxing Day, 1963
From ARFOPEDIA
A fucking freezing day that is used for measuring how mental, odd or bizarre a day's football results are, symbol bd'63. The scale is logarithmic, so a gap of 0.1 is wider at the top end than the bottom. 1, of course corresponds to the day in question, and 0 to completely ordinary results.
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[edit] Those Classified Football Results
[edit] Football League, Division One
Blackpool 1-5 Chelsea Burnley 6-1 Manchester United Fulham 10-1 Ipswich Town Leicester City 2-0 Everton Liverpool 6-1 Stoke City Nottingham Forest 3-3 Sheffield United West Bromich Albion 4-4 Tottenham Hotspur Sheffield Miércoles 3-0 Bolton Wanderers Wolverhampton Wanderers 3-3 Aston Villa West Ham United 2-8 Blackburn Rovers
[edit] What Happened Next
If that wasn't weird enough, the results two days later - when many of the teams played the "return leg" - certainly were. West Ham, who had lost 8 - 2 at home to Blackburn, won 3 - 1 at Ewood Park. Manchester United, fresh from a 6 - 1 thrashing at Burnley, turned the tables at Old Trafford with a 5 - 1 win.
And poor Ipswich, who had clearly been on the Christmas pop, avenged their 10 - 1 defeat by Fulham with a 4 - 2 victory over the Cottagers at Portman Road. Much good the two points did them, mind: they finished bottom.
[edit] Oh, it was freezing
So everyone was dying from hypothermia. RIP.
