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The New Year’s Day Game: Highs and Lows

A walk down a New Year's memory lane with Colin Head

30.12.23, 13:51 Updated 11.06.25, 17:22

Machel Hewitt

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While football players might be dead on their feet by this point, the New Year's Day game can come as a relief to fans. It offers a bit of fresh air to clear the cobwebs and a chance to catch up with friends and wish them a happy New Year.

The professional Bromley players of today are probably in bed by half-nine, but in the Isthmian and Ryman years, the guys chasing after the ball on New Year’s Day may well have been nursing a hangover themselves. Sometimes it showed.

This year, however, tragic news emerged from National League HQ. The New Year’s Day games were to be moved to Saturday December 30th, depriving us of an age-old tradition.

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