Liverpool v Stoke City Preview: Key Battles
For the first time in six years Liverpool don't play a game on Boxing Day. In 2010 it was only because bad weather didn't allow a game at Blackpool, that the Reds not play on 26th December.
But this time the revenue and the money from television has given the fixtures a spin, and the tradition of all ten teams playing on Boxing Day has been discontinued.
Instead, the Reds welcome Stoke City to Anfield on the 27th, in the first of …