The NBA is happening Christmas Day.

Five games, one unforgettable lineup.

That's what Christmas is all about.

Buckets for breakfast, breakaways for dessert.

It's the holiday tradition.

Christmas is all day.

With star power from across the globe.

The stars, they are going to be out.

The best gift, you don't even have to unwrap it.

We want to say Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. NBA Christmas Day begins at noon

Eastern on ABC and ESPN.

Welcome into the latest edition of ESPNFC. I'm Dan Thomas joined by Shaka Hissop and

Stevie Nicol. Later on in the show, Luis and Robert will be here to look ahead to Barcer

against Adletti in La Liga. But we'll kick things off by reflecting on what happened in

the top of the table clash yesterday in the Premier League. Of course, 1-1 between Chelsea

and Arsenal when it was the manner of the game,

the feistyness of it.

It certainly dominates the headlines, socket to him, Enzo C's red, blue sea red over cards.

There are seven yellow cards, of course, in total.

25 fouls between the two of them.

It was almost like a South American feel to this tie. Chelsea won, though. Ask the one is how it finishes. You welcome in. Mario Malkiot. Mario was at the game. Mario, when did you know that this was going to be a feisty affair? Friday. As soon as, look, they kicked off from the first minute. It was already heated, you know? It was like, it's kicked off already. The funny part was, prior to the game kicked off, I bumped into Reese James in the tunnel. And so he comes over. And the way I could see the stare in his eyes already that he was ready, greeted me, he went back into the dressing room, and I knew, okay, let's see what's going to happen. They come out. Wow, they were ready.

They were ready to, I felt like, okay, the Red Card, of course, they implemented a little bit more

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