Blackpool by the Sea - Once known as Landlady City in the 1950's, where holiday makers were ousted out of their Bed & Breakfast accommodation at 8am and told not to return until tea-time and if you were an unmarried couple you were separated to single rooms . Famous players- Stanley Mathews and Stan Mortensen remembered for the famous Mathews final when in 1953 Blackpool defeated Bolton 4-3, after being 3-1 down with 20 minutes to go, Mortensen scored a hat-trick. My favourite musician, Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull started his musical career in the late sixties in Blackpool and obviously went on to greater things. My first match watching Blackpool at the Valley was in Nov 1967 when they defeated us home and away 2-0 and unfortunately for them lost out on promotion on goal difference finishing 3rd.(no play-offs then) My only memory of that game is Jimmy Armfield playing at right back and that was because he was in the World Cup winning Squad. Blackpool today is probably on par with a lot of coastal towns suffering from lack of development and does seem to be stuc
k in a time warp.Tomorrow's game is make or break and I'm going for 2-0 win for the Addicks with Varney scoring twice.
Come on you Reds.
2 comments:
Minor correction: Blackpool lost out on promotion on goal average, not goal difference - a comparatively modern concept.
Happy blogging!
Johnny Orange
Hi Johnny Orange
From your name I assume you are a Blackpool supporter, so may I wish you well after todays game and I hope Blackpool avoid the drop, as the game at the Valley was the most open and entertaining I have seen this season with both sides playing great football.
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