What Christmas is like for Premier League footballers is described by Jamie Carragher

Christmas as the famous Andy Williams song proclaims, it's the most delightful time of the year, for the professional footballer, it's a very different idea than for the bulk of us, who overindulge in food and drink while exchanging gifts and spending the day with family. Although they still celebrate Christmas with their loved ones their 

Christmas Day is scarcely what the rest of us would consider to be typical because they also have a match to prepare for on Boxing Day, while friends and family around them celebrate more conventional holidays, their day is disrupted by training. They manage to stay focused and resist various temptations while this is happening.

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In the end, the rest of us find it to be a strange idea. Since we are used to a traditional Christmas, the professional footballer's day conjures up an ambiguous sense of mystery and intrigue. In a special interview, he said, "You'd always get a little bit more leeway on Christmas Day." "We always came in at ten and left for the gym at half ten. 

Because everyone was aware of the Christmas predicament, you would train and go immediately rather than arriving an hour early this time. To be quite honest with you, I believe that simply leaving the house was a blessing in itself. You are familiar with how Christmas morning is spent in every home, if you had to report to work at 10am, you most likely stayed up till 6 or 7 am with the kids.

Christmas Day bearing gifts

You had spent a couple of hours inside the house and were eager to leave again, "I used to come in with tones of trash bags and throw all of my trash in the large bins near the gym's back! I used to like Neil Ruddock because he always arrived at the door on Christmas Day bearing gifts. He would wear anything. On Christmas Day, he would wear anything new he possessed, even his new coat and sneakers.