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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 in thousands, and the queues were lengthening, with a quarter of an hour to go. By that time a curtain of rain was drifting downfield in front of a wind strengthening all the time. It was no day for watching or playing football.
Blackpool’s crazy gang mascots made their first appearance since the cup-ties a few minutes before the teams took the field, and, in the end, with 40,000 in an uproar, were chased back to the paddocks by half a dozen police officers.
The Green - 75 years of BFC history -
Tangerines.co.uk - Burnley v Blackpool - Match report and related features
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 in thousands, and the queues were lengthening, with a quarter of an hour to go. By that time a curtain of rain was drifting downfield in front of a wind strengthening all the time. It was no day for watching or playing football.
Blackpool’s crazy gang mascots made their first appearance since the cup-ties a few minutes before the teams took the field, and, in the end, with 40,000 in an uproar, were chased back to the paddocks by half a dozen police officers.
The Green - 75 years of BFC history -
Tangerines.co.uk - Burnley v Blackpool - Match report and related features- Blackpool FC match reports and features from the 1948-49 season - 75 years after being published in "The Green"
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