Hyvää Joulua!

Joulu on rauhoittumisen aikaa, joten myös PenkkiSporttaaja rauhoittuu joulun viettoon. Urheilujuhlaa on kuitenkin tarjolla jo Tapaninpäivänä, joka on etenkin Briteissä perinteinen urheilupäivä, ns. Boxing Day. Päivän nimen syntyperästä ei Wikipedian mukaan ole tietoa. Minä suuntaan Boxing Dayn viettoon isovanhempieni luota Pikku-Torreen, jonne on pöytävaraus tehty jo hyvissä ajoin ja tarkoituksena on viettää oman firman pikkujouluja huippufutiksen parissa.


Hyvää Joulua! Tästä pukkivideosta urheiluväki saanee hyvän joulumielen päälle..

Ote Wikipediasta hakusanalla Boxing Day: 

In England, Scotland and Northern Ireland it is traditional for the Premier League, Scottish Premier League and Irish Premier League respectively, as well as the lower divisions and Rugby Football leagues, to hold a full programme of football and Rugby League matches on Boxing Day. Traditionally, matches on Boxing Day are played against local rivals. This was originally to avoid teams and their fans having to travel a long distance to an away game on the day after Christmas Day. It also makes the day an important one in the sporting calendar.

In horse racing, there is the King George VI Chase at Kempton Park Racecourse in Surrey. It is the second most prestigious chase in England, after the Cheltenham Gold Cup.

Boxing Day is a popular day in the UK and US for mounted fox hunters. Despite fox hunting being banned by the Hunting Act in 2004, Boxing Day remains the biggest hunt of the year for most hunts in the UK by use of scent drag trails instead of live game.

Australia holds the first day of the Boxing Day Test in Melbourne at the Melbourne Cricket Ground and the start to the Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race.

The IIHF World U20 Championship (ice hockey) typically begins on 26 December.

The NHL tends to have close to a full slate of games (11 were played in 2010), following the league-wide days off given for Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.

The Spengler Cup (ice hockey) also begins on 26 December in Davos, Switzerland, and includes HC Davos, Team Canada, and other top European Hockey teams.

In some African Commonwealth nations, particularly Ghana, Uganda, Malawi, Zambia and Tanzania, prize fighting contests are held on Boxing Day. This practice has also been followed for decades in Guyana and Italy.^[28]