The sad and sorry thing about Norwich City is you go to the game safe in the knowledge that 1/ they will lose the game and 2/ they won't score.
We were mangled 5-0 at home by Arsenal and quite honestly it could have been 10. We have little fight or spirit and half a dozen players who are just not good enough for the Premier Division. There's no need to do any deep analysis on the Boxing Day bungle. We just aren't competitive or good enough for the Premier Division but the way we are playing we are losing the support of our fans who just ask "when will we get another goal?"
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I think everyone knows that Boxing Day has nothing to do with Boxing. But many would say that as I write this Christmas is over. That just wouldn't be true. Christmas still has a long way to go.
Let's start with how Boxing Day got its name. It became a Bank Holiday in 1871 in the time for Queen Victoria. The rich used to box up gifts to give to the poor which sounds a tad patronising but probably wasn't. Boxing Day became a day off for servants and the day when they received a special Christmas box from their employers.
As for Christmas. Well I bet many people think it starts around the end of September and finishes on Boxing Day. Not so. The 12 days of Christmas (I underline the phrase the 12 days of Christmas) start on Christmas Day or December 25th. They run until the beginning of Epiphany which is January 6th. The legendary 12 days of Christmas run from December 25th until January 5th.
Doesn't detract from the fact that after Boxing Day it's back to the daily grind (although of course this year we have two substitute Bank Holidays to make up for Christmas Day being on a Saturday and Boxing Day being on a Sunday).
As for the phrase Daily Grind, well that comes from the mid 1800s. To grind meant to rub a material with force to break it into tiny pieces. That correlates to breaking a day down into mundane little repetitive pieces - ie the daily grind.