Boxing Day football 1963: When it rained goals in England's top flight

Christmas wouldn't be Christmas without presents, crackers and turkey with all the trimmings.

However, these are not the only things that make up the festive season. No no. Christmas has not truly arrived until every football account on Twitter has posted a graphic of the Boxing Day results from 1963.

You know the one we're talking about.

That perennial «Boxing Day results 1963» graphic just isn't going to have the same impact this year pic.twitter.com/C4AhVQYlOQ

During a truly incredible afternoon of football, 66 goals were scored in just ten games, with fans being treated to such scorelines as 10-1, 4-4 and 8-2.

It's a great headline but as always, the devil's in the detail. Here's exactly how one of the most dramatic afternoons in English football history played out.

Blackpool entered this game one place above the relegation places and by the time the final whistle had blown it was easy to see why.

The Tangerines were put to the sword by Chelsea with striker Barry Bridges netting a hat-trick, while Peter Houseman and future England boss Terry Venables also bagged.

No doubt the victorious Blues headed straight to the pier to celebrate after the game.

Things have been pretty bad for Manchester United in recent times, but they've never been bad.

Prior to kick off, the two sides were separated by two points, but the gulf on the pitch was far greater. Burnley's Andy Lochhead got the party started inside seven minutes before United levelled things up on the half-hour mark.

The hosts then took control, scoring five without reply and condemning United to a terrible defeat. Both a 17-year-old George Best and Denis Law — who went on to score 30 goals over the course of the season — were absent on Boxing Day and were clearly big