Blue Maniac
Alzheimers sufferer
you could put up a good arguement that the clubs themselves do not want to play a local rival on boxing day, as local matches should be a reasonable attendance whatever time of the season.
That's an argument presented in another article that was on the same website about a year ago. Local derbies are intentionally avoided on the first and last games of the season and on Boxing Day, because they know these dates will have big attendances anyway. If they were local derbies as well, they'd effectively be sacrificing a big attendance.