\n 21 Years Ago.\n<\/p>\n
\n 26 December 2004.\n<\/p>\n
\n Saints 17 Leigh 16.\n<\/p>\n
\n A late Scott Moore drop goal saw Ian Millward\u2019s side scrape a Boxing Day friendly after the snow was cleared to make the pitch playable.\n<\/p>\n
\n There was a try on debut for big prop Paul Anderson, with Gaz Langley and Mike Bennett scoring the others.\n<\/p>\n
\n 30 Years Ago.\n<\/p>\n
\n 26 December 1995.\n<\/p>\n
\n Wigan 58 Saints 4.\n<\/p>\n
\n The last competitive Boxing Day game was a miserable affair with a youthful and depleted Saints side put to the sword in front of a 19.526 Central Park crowd.\n<\/p>\n
\n The game saw the debut of Gareth Cunningham \u2013 son of Saints centre Eddie \u2013 at hooker. Simon Booth scored Saints\u2019 only points with a try.\n<\/p>\n
\n 35 Years Ago.\n<\/p>\n
\n 26 December 1990.\n<\/p>\n
\n Saints 15 Wigan 28.\n<\/p>\n
\n It was more Boxing Day misery for Saints \u2013 although Wigan were helped by a couple of dubious forward pass tries.\n<\/p>\n
\n Tries came from Phil Veivers and Paul Loughlin, the latter kicking three goals. Shane Cooper kicked a drop goal.\n<\/p>\n
\n 40 Years Ago.\n<\/p>\n
\n 26 December 1985.\n<\/p>\n
\n Wigan 38 Saints 14.\n<\/p>\n
\n Alex Murphy\u2019s side were not in the game with tries from wing Kevin Meadows and Australian prop Gary Grienke\u2019s only one for the club. Ross Conlon kicked three goals.\n<\/p>\n
\n 45 Years Ago.\n<\/p>\n
\n 26 December 1980.\n<\/p>\n
\n Saints 11 Oldham 10.\n<\/p>\n
\n With Wigan in Division 2, Saints had to play Oldham on Boxing Day \u2013 but they only just scraped a win with a late Mick Hope try.\n<\/p>\n
\n Wingers Les Jones and Roy Mathias scored the others with Neil Holding kicking the goal. Only 4,163 turned out for the match \u2013 hard times.\n<\/p>\n
\n 50 Years Ago.\n<\/p>\n
\n 26 December 1975.\n<\/p>\n
\n Wigan 12 Saints 12.\n<\/p>\n
\n Les Jones and Geoff Pimblett scored Saints\u2019 tries with the latter kicking one goal while Kel Coslett booted over two more.\n<\/p>\n
\n 55 Years Ago.\n<\/p>\n
\n 26 December 1970.\n<\/p>\n
\n Saints 5 Wigan 12.\n<\/p>\n
\n Wigan had control of this game from the first half, with Les Jones\u2019 second half try to no avail.\n<\/p>\n
\n 70 Years Ago.\n<\/p>\n
\n 24 December 1955.\n<\/p>\n
\n Saints 18 Oldham 7.\n<\/p>\n
\n Saints beat the Roughyeds in a congested Christmas period with tries from Frank McCabe and Duggie Greenall. Austin Rhodes kicked six goals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"21 Years Ago. 26 December 2004. Saints 17 Leigh 16. A late Scott Moore drop goal saw Ian…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":336864,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-336863","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-rugby","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336863\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/336864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}