Flashback: Manchester City and Liverpool charged with turning the clock back to when Boxing Day rained goals Lochhead's feat is recalled vividly by Willie Morgan, the flying winger best remembered for playing on the opposite flank to George Best at Manchester United, not least because his fellow former Scotland international has been ribbing him about the game ever since. Morgan was just 18 and wearing a Burnley shirt on that occasion and it was his display - capped with his first two goals for the club - that caught the eye. One journalist at Turf Moor reported that it was "one of the best performances I have seen from a player of such tender years." Morgan said: "We have a place in Tenerife and we often meet up with Andy out there. At some point every year he'll say to me that he still he still can't understand how I was man of the match and not him. Two days later, when most of the Boxing Day fixtures were reversed, Burnley faced United again, at Old Trafford. With a 16-year-old Best making only his second appearance for United and scoring his first goal, Burnley 5-1, although Morgan says that such swings in fortune were not especially unusual. "It was just the way football was," he said. The emphasis was on attack. It was not that the defending was poor - the forwards were just very good. Every team played with five forwards, two half-backs, two full-backs and a centre-half. It was proper football. There was no emphasis on tactics, in fact there were no tactics at all because there were no coaches, just the manager. At Burnley, Harry Potts might have told us to watch out for one player or another, or that the opposition were not a bad side. But then he would say that we were better than them and just tell us to go out and score as many goals as we could. All the teams had six players - the two wingers, the inside forwards and the half-backs - who were good on the ball, plus a centre forward who was invariably a good finisher. So there were lots of goals. It was a joy to play. I wish we'd had the pitch conditions we have now but that's the only thing I'd change. Liverpool's demolition of Stoke marked the start of their charge towards Bill Shankly's first league title and the beginning of Anfield's golden era. Hunt would go on to total 31 goals in the season and, of course, to World Cup glory with England 2½ years later. On a quagmire at Craven Cottage, Leggat's four included a three-minute hat-trick as Fulham notched their club record victory and inflicted Ipswich's heaviest defeat. Bobby Howfield also hit three and there were goals too for Bobby Robson and Alan Mullery. At Upton Park, Andy McEvoy and Fred Pickering scored three goals each as Blackburn ripped apart a West Ham defence that included Bobby Moore, John Bond and Ken Brown. "It was one of those days when more or less every shot went in for us," Pickering said, before remembering a build-up to the match that would have today's players recoiling in horror. "We travelled down by train via Preston on Christmas Day," he said. There was no food on the train, though, and we arrived at Euston feeling pretty hungry only to get to our hotel and be told that most of the staff had been given the day off and the kitchen was closed. We managed to find some fish and chips somewhere and just had tea and toast for breakfast the following morning before leaving for the ground. I think we kicked off about 11 o'clock. West Ham came to Ewood Park two days later and won and people just assumed we'd been celebrating too much. Blackburn, who had thumped Tottenham 7-2 earlier in the season, had gone into Christmas top of the table but fell away to finish seventh. Ipswich, champions only two seasons previously, avenged their defeat by beating Fulham 4-2 at home two days later but were relegated at the end of the season, conceding 121 goals in the process. Overall, the return games were tame by comparison, the 10 First Division fixtures on Dec 28 yielding a mere 37 goals.