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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 from the sort of position where no other forward among all the 10 on view ever shot.
THAT PROMOTION EASTER - Greatest weekend of all - The 1930 Easter will always be given a chapter to itself in Blackpool football history. It was Blackpool v. Oldham Athletic on Good Friday. There were no all-ticket matches in those days and there were tumultuous scenes which nearly ended in a riot outside the closed Blackpool gates an hour before the kick-off. The Blackpool ground was even smaller in 1930 than it is today - and it’s no Wembley now.
Spion Kop had not been built. Its tiered slopes rose during the following summer. Behind the north goal was no embankment but the old motor stand with a shallow terrace fronting it.
The Green - 75 years of BFC history -
Tangerines.co.uk - Birmingham City v Blackpool - Match report and related features
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 from the sort of position where no other forward among all the 10 on view ever shot.
THAT PROMOTION EASTER - Greatest weekend of all - The 1930 Easter will always be given a chapter to itself in Blackpool football history. It was Blackpool v. Oldham Athletic on Good Friday. There were no all-ticket matches in those days and there were tumultuous scenes which nearly ended in a riot outside the closed Blackpool gates an hour before the kick-off. The Blackpool ground was even smaller in 1930 than it is today - and it’s no Wembley now.
Spion Kop had not been built. Its tiered slopes rose during the following summer. Behind the north goal was no embankment but the old motor stand with a shallow terrace fronting it.
The Green - 75 years of BFC history -
Tangerines.co.uk - Birmingham City 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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