24-10-70 Pool v Chelsea

Atchetman

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50 years ago today (it's gone fast )Blackpool played Chelsea in old first division.
Anyone else on here went to the game?
3 nil up at half time against Chelsea who were the FA Cup holders and had some great players like Peter Osgood Alan Hudson Chopper Harris John Hollins.
Ended up losing 4-3. My memories are Fred Pickering ripping them to shreds in first half with a couple of goals then I'm sure he was substituted incredibly in second half and it all went to pot. I remember Dave Hatton slicing the ball in his own net in injury time making it 4-3 to the cockneys.
Chelsea were a bit of a bogey side whenever they came up in the 70s and don't think we ever got a result against them. Nasty bunch of fans aswell on the whole with plenty of incidents on the old kop.
 
My dad had a season ticket for South Stand seats & snook me in as an 8yr old.
Can remember the winning OG & a bunch of Chelsea fans going mad in the paddock below.
Sickening. Remember my dad unintentionally teaching me some new words on the way back to my grans on Henry St 🤔 😔
 
Yep, I was there too, couldn’t believe we blew that! On a fashion note Remember our little ‘Crew’ clocking what the Chelsea fans were wearing as they entered the back of the Kop, meant a lot back then. Lol
 
Yep, was there. Went with my Dad who lived in Manchester so we went in the South Stand that day. I had a season ticket for the Kop.
Can't remember much about the game aprt from how the scoring went. Can still picture Hatton slicing it into his own net at the near post though.
 
I was there in South Paddock. I too remember the slice from Dave Hatton in last minute. I spoke to Fred P a couple of years ago - he couldn’t believe he was subbed either. Fred was a lovely guy RIP
 
Was working in St.Annes, and spent half my weeks wages on a cab to get to the ground as I was running late for KO. Got there just before half time. From euphoria to abject misery in 45 minutes.
 
I have only just got over the trauma of experiencing that defeat 50 years ago as a 12 year old. Thanks Atchetman, back to therapy!!
 
Yep,11 year old stood half way down the Kop to the right of the Goal. I also remember getting on a Football Special Bus at the back of the Kop and Chelsea fans surrounding the bus and shaking it and banging on the windows🥺
 
I was there on the kop as a mad keen 8 year old. Chelsea were box office that year and the FA Cup holders. I was gutted and nearly in tears. The day got better though as my dad took us in the supporters club ("To let the traffic calm down" - i.e. to get a couple of pints). In there I managed to get the autographs of Peter Osgood and Charlie Cooke.
 
Yes, 10 year old in the South paddock (to the right of the goal). There was no segregation back then and I was sat on the wall. At halftime I always went to the back of the terracing to join my dad who was stood with mates. Walking up through the crowd I passed a young Chelsea couple (mid 20s I suppose). They were drinking soup from a flask and looking dead miserable. I didn't see them at the end, thank God.
One other point. I have a memory in my mind's eye of Pickering scoring one of the goals with a back-heel flick. Can anyone confirm?
 
Ya I was there in the kop .am still gutted, what was the team I think Thompson mowbray armfield, mcphee james Hatton, brown green Pickering Suddick and Hutchinson
 
50 years ago today (it's gone fast )Blackpool played Chelsea in old first division.
Anyone else on here went to the game?
3 nil up at half time against Chelsea who were the FA Cup holders and had some great players like Peter Osgood Alan Hudson Chopper Harris John Hollins.
Ended up losing 4-3. My memories are Fred Pickering ripping them to shreds in first half with a couple of goals then I'm sure he was substituted incredibly in second half and it all went to pot. I remember Dave Hatton slicing the ball in his own net in injury time making it 4-3 to the cockneys.
Chelsea were a bit of a bogey side whenever they came up in the 70s and don't think we ever got a result against them. Nasty bunch of fans aswell on the whole with plenty of incidents on the old kop.
What a great post and some fantastic players mentioned there,indeed many of the really memorable games for fans werent necessarily Cup finals, cup matches etc but exciting league games like this one.

Alan Hudson was a superb player-in the same mould as Suddick and Green for you guys I guess- but as you say on the terraces it was a bit lively.
 
I was there as a 10 year old in the scratching shed at the Kop end.

Can`t remember too much of the game but remember hoards of Chelsea fans as I went back to the bus station.

That year I thought the 3-3 draw with Man City was a greater disappointment after scoring the third in the 90th minute to make it 3-1...
 
For years after that day I never trusted any lead that we had. I can remember nothing of our goals, but Dave Hatton‘s sliced clearance is hard wired into my head. That team couldn’t last 90 minutes. We led at Anfield with 10 left, led 3-1 at home to City late on, but didn’t win either. There were stories of some of the team lacking fitness - the sort you get when a team runs out of steam consistently towards the end of games.
 
Yes, 10 year old in the South paddock (to the right of the goal). There was no segregation back then and I was sat on the wall. At halftime I always went to the back of the terracing to join my dad who was stood with mates. Walking up through the crowd I passed a young Chelsea couple (mid 20s I suppose). They were drinking soup from a flask and looking dead miserable. I didn't see them at the end, thank God.
One other point. I have a memory in my mind's eye of Pickering scoring one of the goals with a back-heel flick. Can anyone confirm?

Yes he did! From memory there was a cross came in from the right about thigh height and slightly behind him somewhere near the penalty spot.
He seemed to reach backwards with his right leg and flick it into the roof of the net with the heel of the outside of his right foot?
 
Bloody hell lads, you have good memories.
I was 16 at the time and went to every home game but I can’t remember intricate details like that.
 
Bloody hell lads, you have good memories.
I was 16 at the time and went to every home game but I can’t remember intricate details like that.
Eternal, I was 10 and we were in Div 1 playing the FA Cup holders. My life revolved around BFC (and Dr Who). As you were 16 might I suggest that you had err...other distractions.
 
I remember the City game as well.

Hudson in the same mould as Bowles
and Currie but didn’t fit in at International level as they didn’t conform on the pitch as well as off it.
 
Yes he did! From memory there was a cross came in from the right about thigh height and slightly behind him somewhere near the penalty spot.
He seemed to reach backwards with his right leg and flick it into the roof of the net with the heel of the outside of his right foot?
I'm pretty sure the cross came in from their left- the scratching shed side.. Also I'd say he was just a two or three yards at most from the goal line at the near post. He swung with his right foot, mistimed it and sliced it into his own net. I was in the south stand directly in line with it.
 
I'm pretty sure the cross came in from their left- the scratching shed side.. Also I'd say he was just a two or three yards at most from the goal line at the near post. He swung with his right foot, mistimed it and sliced it into his own net. I was in the south stand directly in line with it.

Oh dear I hope not!
He certainly could have been closer in I’ll give you that, but I’d say more to the centre, not the near post. You would have had a better view of that from the South than me though.
Their left would have been the West Stand anyway though not the scratching shed where I was (more or less behind where he hit it from), and it certainly didn’t come from ‘my side’ unless I am totally losing it.
It looked deliberate to me, and a beautiful skill not a mishit?
What a pity we can’t see it. I seem to remember they had an interview with the Chelsea manager and a player or two on MOTD that night, but no footage.
 
Oh dear I hope not!
He certainly could have been closer in I’ll give you that, but I’d say more to the centre, not the near post. You would have had a better view of that from the South than me though.
Their left would have been the West Stand anyway though not the scratching shed where I was (more or less behind where he hit it from), and it certainly didn’t come from ‘my side’ unless I am totally losing it.
It looked deliberate to me, and a beautiful skill not a mishit?
What a pity we can’t see it. I seem to remember they had an interview with the Chelsea manager and a player or two on MOTD that night, but no footage.
Nope, their left was the scratching shed. They were attacking the South Stand. He was the right back and pretty much on his near post.
 
Nope, their left was the scratching shed. They were attacking the South Stand. He was the right back and pretty much on his near post.
Are’nt we mixing up Dave Hatton’s own goal, and Fred Pickering’s goal for us, which is the one I was trying to describe. Fred had his back to me (in the scratching shed) when he received the cross from in front of the West?
 
Are’nt we mixing up Dave Hatton’s own goal, and Fred Pickering’s goal for us, which is the one I was trying to describe. Fred had his back to me (in the scratching shed) when he received the cross from in front of the West?
Ah right, then indeed we are. I was talking about the o g. Apologies.
 
I can't remember games from this season but remember that game as well as Lanerossi as my abiding memories growing up. Like others I was sat on the wall in the south paddock. At the time I couldn't understand why Hatton banged in a screamer in the wrong net..
 
Another one on tge Kop that day. Unbelievable result, not helped by the substitution the manager made
 
Yup, I was there with my dad, my first game, what a debut! Wasn’t there something about Harry Thompson being pissed or something like that?
 
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