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If your partner has a football season ticket…

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HomeAloneBoxingDay · 26/12/2025 16:22

Would they go on Boxing Day and leave you home alone all day?
Just wondering if I’m being unreasonable because football bores me rigid and I can’t imagine leaving my partner of 6 years alone on Boxing Day.

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HomeAloneBoxingDay · 26/12/2025 18:36

Ok it’s unanimous, I’m wrong 🙋‍♀️
It seems my family putting people before sport on Boxing Day is not the norm and I stand corrected.

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Harrumphhhh · 26/12/2025 18:35

BeeHive909 · 26/12/2025 18:21

There’s only one big game tonight and it’s my team at home and Newcastle. And I can tell you now my town is certainly not a shit hole and I’d be very offended and interested if you are calling it one where you live in Scotland haha.

Your team have always been in the premiership though, so can’t be them. Plus, I suspect we’d be hearing a lot more about how outrageous if was for him to need to stay overnight. Weirdly late kick off for a Boxing Day match.

Mylovelygreendress · 26/12/2025 18:34

Nucleus · 26/12/2025 18:25

I am going with Gateshead, on the basis that it has to be within a couple of hours of somewhere rural in Scotland and they appear to have been making progress through some of the lower leagues. I thought Middlesbrough might be a bit far.

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I cannot think of any Munro within a couple of hours of Gateshead .

ilovesooty · 26/12/2025 18:32

Nucleus · 26/12/2025 18:25

I am going with Gateshead, on the basis that it has to be within a couple of hours of somewhere rural in Scotland and they appear to have been making progress through some of the lower leagues. I thought Middlesbrough might be a bit far.

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If it was Gateshead he'll have had a miserable day.

BartholemewTheCat · 26/12/2025 18:31

Perhaps in 2026 you should think about relocating to somewhere more central, and expand your network. You seem to be putting an awful lot into your DP to keep you entertained.

Can you not drive, OP? Would it not have been worth climbing in the car and visiting somewhere befitting your social status?

Brightbluesomething · 26/12/2025 18:30

Nucleus · 26/12/2025 18:25

I am going with Gateshead, on the basis that it has to be within a couple of hours of somewhere rural in Scotland and they appear to have been making progress through some of the lower leagues. I thought Middlesbrough might be a bit far.

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If you’re right this is very insulting. I thought Manchester but even 6 years ago getting a season ticket for either premiership team playing tonight was difficult, for the visitors it was impossible and still is.
So likely lower leagues. All northern. She’s insulting a massive proportion of the MN readership by saying somewhere that’s probably fine is a shit hole. Not helping her argument but she lost that when she judged our class.

SleeplessInWherever · 26/12/2025 18:29

My main confusion is that if he has a season ticket for an English team, he’s driving at least 3hrs each way (ish!) for a normal Saturday home match.

Wouldn’t that be a problem all year round?

TidyCyan · 26/12/2025 18:28

Nucleus · 26/12/2025 18:25

I am going with Gateshead, on the basis that it has to be within a couple of hours of somewhere rural in Scotland and they appear to have been making progress through some of the lower leagues. I thought Middlesbrough might be a bit far.

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You may well be correct!

Nucleus · 26/12/2025 18:25

TidyCyan · 26/12/2025 18:14

I wondered maybe Middlesbrough as they are top 2 at the moment and it's sort-of close but it's not a scary shit hole or a city.

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I am going with Gateshead, on the basis that it has to be within a couple of hours of somewhere rural in Scotland and they appear to have been making progress through some of the lower leagues. I thought Middlesbrough might be a bit far.

Blump2783 · 26/12/2025 18:24

I wouldn't care personally but everyone places different levels of importance on different things.

HunterHearstHelmsley · 26/12/2025 18:24

Finding OP's snobbery about football and the "scary shithole" town her DH has visited to be hilarious when she claims to live somewhere "deprived" herself! Can't be quite as fancy as she imagines herself to be.

Her DH is having family time away from her, sounds like he has the right idea!

Cuwins · 26/12/2025 18:24

sweeneytoddsrazor · 26/12/2025 18:19

I thought it would have to be Middlesbrough as well. Basing that geographically rather than saying its a scary shithole. I haven't been there for a few years but pretty certain it isn't a scary place

Went to a wonderful RSPB reserve near Middlesbrough a couple of years ago

ThisCalmMauveWriter · 26/12/2025 18:23

HighLadyofTheNightCourt · 26/12/2025 18:05

Agreed! Curious as to where this ‘absolute scary shit hole’ actually is 😂

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London? 😂

According to so many posters on here, it's the most frightening city in the country 😂

clary · 26/12/2025 18:23

The city where he goes is an absolute scary shit hole.

Sorry @HomeAloneBoxingDay as others say, where is this?? Glancing at home games today – I mean Middlesbrough is not my favourite place (I used to live nearby) but it’s not scary; Millwall is not lovely but it’s in London and there are plenty of nicer areas nearby; and then I mean, Huddersfield? Bolton? Sheffield? all perfectly fine places where you could have a coffee or a wander round a park on a lovely day like today. Do tell where this "scary shithole" is.

BeeHive909 · 26/12/2025 18:21

There’s only one big game tonight and it’s my team at home and Newcastle. And I can tell you now my town is certainly not a shit hole and I’d be very offended and interested if you are calling it one where you live in Scotland haha.

SleeplessInWherever · 26/12/2025 18:21

HighLadyofTheNightCourt · 26/12/2025 18:16

That was my guess too 🤷🏼‍♀️

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I’m from there, and it’s my guess as well.

Confused if so, though. What would be the point in having a Blackburn season ticket if you lived in Scotland?

ilovesooty · 26/12/2025 18:20

Hobnobswantshernameback · 26/12/2025 18:09

I too am intensely curious where the "scary shithole" is

I'm hazarding a guess at Middlesbrough 😁 I see a few have beaten me to it.

vanillalattes · 26/12/2025 18:20

OP, you sound increasingly ridiculous with every post.

If everything "within 30 miles" is shut what would the two of you have actually done together today that would have been so much fun?

PurpleThistle7 · 26/12/2025 18:20

This is so dramatic. You have many other days you can spend together, this is just one day. I think a day to myself sounds blissful! And even if it’s not, sounds like he has developed a lovely tradition seeing people he doesn’t see often and enjoying watching something he likes. I hope he has a wonderful day.

Whatever you were so keen to do together, just do that? Watch a film? Have a long bath? Read a book?

sweeneytoddsrazor · 26/12/2025 18:19

I thought it would have to be Middlesbrough as well. Basing that geographically rather than saying its a scary shithole. I haven't been there for a few years but pretty certain it isn't a scary place

BackToLurk · 26/12/2025 18:18

Hobnobswantshernameback · 26/12/2025 18:09

I too am intensely curious where the "scary shithole" is

My money’s on Luton

HighLadyofTheNightCourt · 26/12/2025 18:16

TidyCyan · 26/12/2025 18:14

I wondered maybe Middlesbrough as they are top 2 at the moment and it's sort-of close but it's not a scary shit hole or a city.

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That was my guess too 🤷🏼‍♀️

TidyCyan · 26/12/2025 18:14

Harrumphhhh · 26/12/2025 18:13

Anyone else looking at today’s fixture list trying to work out which match is being played at a ‘scary shithole’ in England, but within two hour’s drive of a Munro?

I wondered maybe Middlesbrough as they are top 2 at the moment and it's sort-of close but it's not a scary shit hole or a city.

Mylovelygreendress · 26/12/2025 18:14

OnlyReplyToIdiots · 26/12/2025 18:11

Interesting… you said that you lived near the Munros… none of which are within “a couple of hours” of England.

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Exactly what I came on to say ! I think the nearest Munro to the border would be Ben Lomond which is about 4 hours from ( eg) Newcastle .

HoobleDooble · 26/12/2025 18:14

My DH has had a season ticket since he was a kid. I used to be a bit “grrrr!” about it when DS was little so he used to drop him off with grandma and give me a relaxing day to myself. They played at home today so I lay on the bed reading my book and teenage DS played with his friends via Xbox. He will be going on NYD when they’re at home though … only downside being I don’t get a cup of tea brought to me at halftime.