OLD PICTURES OF BLACKPOOL FC

The pitch looked fairly hard work! Great footage.
It looks prehistoric but I started going 7 years after that. God I feel old. 🤣

My elder brother had a rattle but I didn't, so I guess they went out of fashion mid 60s?! I used to chase my sister round the house with it. 🤠
 
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I Google chopper bayern & he scored more in his career than I thought he would so he'd possible be in midfield? Unless he partnered Glyn James rather than John Craven?
Burns, Pickering, Hutchinson as a front 3 are tasty.
 
I Google chopper bayern & he scored more in his career than I thought he would so he'd possible be in midfield? Unless he partnered Glyn James rather than John Craven?
Burns, Pickering, Hutchinson as a front 3 are tasty
Possible line up:

Thomson
Armfield James Mowbray McPhee
Bentley Hatton Craven Hutchison
Pickering Burns
 
Possible line up:

Thomson
Armfield James Mowbray McPhee
Bentley Hatton Craven Hutchison
Pickering Burns
I was slightly surprised to see Dave Hatton in that photo. I'd have only been 8 and always remembered him as Jimmy's replacement. My dad used to sneak me into the South stand for the fateful return to Div 1. Remember Hatton's unfortunate own goal vs Chelsea when we went from 3 up to lose 4-3 😥.
Think you're right about hatchetman though TB remember him being pushed ahead of Mowbray and he took a mean corner.
 
John Triumph posted this on FB.
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This popped up on the old AVFTT site about three years ago. It was my first time inside Bloomfield Road. A year or so before I ever went to a match.

I think it was the Summer of 1975 and we sat in the West Stand watching it . I was 5. Often thought I'd imagined it as no footage seemed to exist, it was some kind of travelling show featuring High Diving into tiny pools, Trapeze artists and Motorcycle stunts going through rings of fire etc.
 
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I'm still around Wilf (John, far left), S/T in the South Stand now. Sadly not all in the picture are still with us. That was a great weekend away but a dreadful game in the fog. Didn't we lose 3-0 but Torquay were still relegated anyway?
 
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I was slightly surprised to see Dave Hatton in that photo. I'd have only been 8 and always remembered him as Jimmy's replacement. My dad used to sneak me into the South stand for the fateful return to Div 1. Remember Hatton's unfortunate own goal vs Chelsea when we went from 3 up to lose 4-3 😥.
Think you're right about hatchetman though TB remember him being pushed ahead of Mowbray and he took a mean corner.
Hatton was originally signed from Bolton as a centre half and played in the centre of defence along side Glyn James. Mowbray from my recollection only ever played as a left back, but Bill Bentley from time to time was deployed further forward. Hatton was later used as a right back, but only after Jimmy had retired.
 
Wizz. I noticed that neither Green nor Suddick are in the photo. Did the King play in the promotion run-in?
Suddick had a great season 69/70 pulling the strings in midfield. Tony Green missed the whole season after suffering an Achilles injury pre- season training. The myth was that Chopper McPhee tackled him when the injury occurred but in fact it was done while Greeno was running with no player near him.
 
Suddick had a great season 69/70 pulling the strings in midfield. Tony Green missed the whole season after suffering an Achilles injury pre- season training. The myth was that Chopper McPhee tackled him when the injury occurred but in fact it was done while Greeno was running with no player near him.
Cheers, Trammo. I remember those rumours circulating. The implication was that Chopper felt his place in the team was threatened by Green's presence. Bollox, of course.
 
I was slightly surprised to see Dave Hatton in that photo. I'd have only been 8 and always remembered him as Jimmy's replacement. My dad used to sneak me into the South stand for the fateful return to Div 1. Remember Hatton's unfortunate own goal vs Chelsea when we went from 3 up to lose 4-3 😥.
Think you're right about hatchetman though TB remember him being pushed ahead of Mowbray and he took a mean corner.
I went to every game, home and away in the 1969/70 season. I can remember Dave Hatton playing alongside Glyn James in central defence. McPhee, Bentley and Craven all played midfield.

My best guess as to how the team was set up is as follows:- Thomson in goals; back four of Armfield, James, Hatton and Mowbray; midfield three of McPhee, Craven and Bentley; front three of Burns, Pickering and Hutchison.
 
I went to every game, home and away in the 1969/70 season. I can remember Dave Hatton playing alongside Glyn James in central defence. McPhee, Bentley and Craven all played midfield.

My best guess as to how the team was set up is as follows:- Thomson in goals; back four of Armfield, James, Hatton and Mowbray; midfield three of McPhee, Craven and Bentley; front three of Burns, Pickering and Hutchison.
I'm not sure they weren't still playing an old fashioned 235 at that time:
Thompson
Armfield, Bentley
McPhee, James, Hatton
Burns, Green, Pickering, Suddick, Hutchison
 
I'm not sure they weren't still playing an old fashioned 235 at that time:
Thompson
Armfield, Bentley
McPhee, James, Hatton
Burns, Green, Pickering, Suddick, Hutchison
I think the 2-3-5 formation was abandoned in 1925, I can remember 4-2-4 and 4-3-3 formations starting in the 1950s and were deployed throughout the 1960s. Alf Ramsey in the 1966 World Cup final and also the semi final and quarter final didn’t select any out and out wingers and he deployed a 4-4-2 formation when England were defending which then quickly became a 4-2-4 formation when England were attacking. The main reason this worked so well was the energy, commitment and all out running by Blackpool’s Alan Ball.
 
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2-3-5 was still used in the 50's.
I watched Blackpool in the 1950s and I can never remember the full backs being the last line of defence, with the offside law as it was then it would have been suicidal to have two full backs playing the centre forward in the middle onside. Then in the late 1950s along came Jimmy Armfield who transformed the role of the full back into a more of a wing back.
 
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