What Sport is on Christmas day?

What Sport is on Christmas day?

Stuffed after your Christmas lunch and want to relax on the sofa watching sport? Have a look at what's on.

With many people planning on being sofa bound after their Christmas dinner, some may be pleased to know there is actually a fair bit of sport you can punt on throughout the day.

If you are football mad and always on the lookout to put an accumulator on then over in Turkey there are five fixtures in the Super Lig, where the biggest fancy is on Galatasaray to beat Çaykur Rizespor at 6/13.

On the other side of the pond there is some NFL action to get involved with. The season is drawing to a close, and includes a full fixture list on New Year's Day, but on Christmas day the Pittsburgh Steelers travel to the Ravens as favourites.

Staying stateside, there are some attractive but tough games to call in the NBA. New York Knicks travel to Boston Celtics while the Golden State Warriors host Cleveland Claviers. Later on in the evening, if you've had enough of the board games, you can keep an eye on heavy favourites San Antonio Spurs, 1/6, who take on 17/4 outsiders Chicago Bulls at 10pm.

If it's horse racing you are after then over in Japan there is the Grade One Arima Kinen where legendary Japanese jockey Yutake Take is on 6/4 favourite Kitasan Black. Take famously came to Ascot to ride heavily backed A Shin Hikari in the Prince of Wales's Stakes in June but ultimately failed to cope in the conditions. Kitasan Black has been in impressive form and the four-year old colt is expected to add another fine victory to his name following his recent win in the Japan Cup.

If cricket's your game then Australia v Pakistan gets underway from 11.30pm UK time and is available to watch on BT Sport 3. Pakistan, who have now lost 10 consecutive Test matches on Australian soil, are 5/1 to win. There is expected to be 70,000 fans turning out, on what will be boxing day down under, hoping to witness an Australia win, priced at 4/9.

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