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On this St George's day in 1️⃣9️⃣4️⃣9️⃣ MIDDLESBRO’ FOUGHT HARD FOR THEIR POINT It may from save them relegation THIS was “D" - day for Middlesbrough, with everything at stake, including First Division status. For Blackpool it was just another match to play before the season’s end in a...

On this day in 1️⃣9️⃣4️⃣9️⃣ BLACKPOOL LOSE POINT IN FINAL MINUTES Fail to hold on to “Morty’s” special One goal always seemed sufficient to win a match in which the odds were always stacked high against the forwards. And a good goal it was, too, another of the Stan Mortensen's specials, shot...

On this day in 1️⃣9️⃣4️⃣9️⃣ BLACKPOOL HUMBLE FIRST DIVISION LEADERS ON the crest of the wave, Portsmouth, fielding the eleven men who won 5-0 at Newcastle three days ago, entered this match at Bloomfield-road this afternoon requiring a maximum of 10 points from their remaining six games to win...

On this day in 1️⃣9️⃣4️⃣9️⃣ NEWCASTLE MADE CERTAIN WITH EARLY GOALS Blackpool in the second half nearly won a point in a game which had seemed irretrievably lost in the first half hour. Match was open until Newcastle’s third and late goal. Blackpool defence was often scattered and outpaced...

On this day in 1️⃣9️⃣4️⃣9️⃣ HE WAS THE REAL STAN MORTENSEN TODAY It was not until the last minute that Blackpool won at home for only the second time this year. A team shuffled almost out of recognition in the last 15 minutes hammered Chelsea nearly to a standstill. Stanley Mortensen...

On this day in 1️⃣9️⃣4️⃣9️⃣ EVERTON WERE GOAL-HAPPY IN THE BLIZZARD It was a football match in name only, but Everton served to win because with aid of the wind and snow in first half their forwards played fast, open, aggressive football which tore Blackpool defence apart. Blackpool defence...

On this day in 1️⃣9️⃣4️⃣9️⃣ PRESTON GET VITAL POINT IN LAST MINUTE Blackpool played threequarters of it with 10 men and a cripple, and half of it with nine men and two cripples and yet, in the end, lost a point only in the last minute. For 60 minutes it was a rearguard action by a skeleton...

On this day in 1️⃣9️⃣4️⃣9️⃣ BLACKPOOL GET POINT IN GAME OF THRILLS Blackpool’s forwards during the first half and, in a lesser degree in the second, were a good progressive line, raiding on an open front and led with enterprise and an unsuspected speed by Willie McIntosh. McKnight silenced a...

On this day in 1️⃣9️⃣4️⃣9️⃣ MclNTOSH’S FIRST GOAL FOR BLACKPOOL Willie McIntosh scoring his first for Blackpool to win the game four minutes from time. If ever a forward deserved to win a match it was the man from Preston, aggressive all the time in a front line which otherwise was menacing...

On this 🏆 FA Cup 4th Round replay day in 1️⃣9️⃣4️⃣9️⃣ BLACKPOOL ARE OUT The last minutes were battled - there was no other word for it - with 21 men in Stoke’s half of the field and Farm watching it all from afar, watching his team go out of the Cup against a defence nearly impregnable. The...

On this 🏆 FA Cup 4th Round day in 1️⃣9️⃣4️⃣9️⃣ REPLAY FOR BLACKPOOL It was a raging, relentless match from the first minute, played at a pace which ultimately tired the City. One of the stars of the game was Blackpool’s captain, Harry Johnston, but the entire defence compelled admiration for...

On this day in 1️⃣9️⃣4️⃣9️⃣ BLACKPOOL LOST LEAD TWICE A GOAL FIVE MINUTES FROM TIME BY LEN SHACKLETON SNATCHED A POINT FOR SUNDERLAND AT BLACKPOOL IN THIS SEE-SAW GAME. After being outplayed and losing two goals in the first half hour, Sunderland’s fast forwards three times in the second half...

On this 🏆 FA Cup 3rd Round day in 1️⃣9️⃣4️⃣9️⃣ MORTENSEN GOAL KNOCKS OUT BARNSLEY Once Blackpool had repulsed the inevitable storming opening by a direct and aggressive Barnsley front line the tie was half won. But again it required a snap opportunist goal by Stanley Mortensen to win it - a...

On this New Years day in 1️⃣9️⃣4️⃣9️⃣ BLACKPOOL’S FINE START TO THE NEW YEAR Blackpool had a happy new year's day at Villa Park. The storming football the forwards played on a mud coated pitch was a revelation. THERE is a request from Spion Kop in the mail this week. The Kop customers are...

On this day in 1️⃣9️⃣4️⃣8️⃣ SHEFFIELD SHOW BLACKPOOL HOW TO SHOOT THIS WAS BLACKPOOL’S BLACKEST DAY FOR MONTHS, WITH SCARCELY ANYTHING TO REDEEM IT. BETWEEN 60 AND 70 MINUTES’ PRESSURE COULD NOT PRODUCE A GOAL. Sheffield United, often outplayed, had fewer than half a dozen chances all the...

On this day in 1️⃣9️⃣4️⃣8️⃣ BLACKPOOL’S FRONT LINE HAD NO PUNCH For the last half-dozen miles into this East Lancashire town the coaches from Blackpool were in a nearly unbroken convoy, dozens of them decorated with battered tangerine relics from last season’s Cupties. They were swarming in...

On this day in 1️⃣9️⃣4️⃣8️⃣ MATTHEWS HAS GREAT DAY AGAINST STOKE It was Stanley Matthews’ match as he always intended it to be against his old team. Twice he hit a post with scoring shots. Times without number he outwitted the men with whom once he played. He was the man of a game chiefly...

On this Lancashire 🌹day in 1️⃣9️⃣4️⃣8️⃣ BLACKPOOL’S THIRD DRAW IN A ROW Thrilling game in the fog ends in no goals The two stars of this match were Stanley Matthews and Johnston. It was a game which established all the greatness there is in the incomparable Matthews when he has a halfbacks...

On this day in 1️⃣9️⃣4️⃣8️⃣ BLACKPOOL FAIL TO KEEP THEIR EARLY LEAD Blackpool fielded the team that won a point at Portsmouth a week ago, with the England right wing separated and Jim McIntosh leading the forwards at Blackpool for the first time for nearly two months. This was a game which...

On this day in 1️⃣9️⃣4️⃣8️⃣ BLACKPOOL SHOULD HAVE HAD WIN The defence earned its bonus by the front it presented to Portsmouth forwards during 25 minutes of the first half when this fast aggressive squad might have won the game by a goal or two. Hayward and Shimwell, and as the game progressed...