By Hugo Varley

TRADITIONALLY, football stadiums are eerily desolate places on Christmas Day – but the same won’t be said for Chorley’s Victory Park this year. That’s because the Magpies are hoping to make their home a hive of activity on the big day after deciding to open their gates for supporters and locals to celebrate.
The NLP. “The football club is like family for a lot of people, so this feels like the right thing to do and the reaction has been phenomenal.
The initiative was thought up by the club’s chief operating officer Craig Doot...