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BLACKPOOL FAIL IN GALLANT BID AT STOKE
This was a grand show by Blackpool. The match was being lost everywhere to a direct Stoke forward line for half an hour. During those 30 minutes a defeat and a big defeat seemed inevitable.
Then, with only 10 fit men Blackpool made it 2-2, outplayed the City, lost in the end, but if two big chances had been taken near the end might actually have won.
THE PLIGHT OF PRESTON THE first question they ask in Blackpool every week as soon as the half-time scores are signalled is:
“How are North End going on?”
Two games next week will decide it - and the first is at Wolverhampton on Monday: the second at Liverpool on Saturday. Neither is an enviable assignment. If North End are still in the First Division next Saturday evening they will deserve to be.
The Green - 75 years of BFC history -
Tangerines.co.uk - Stoke City v Blackpool - Match report and related features
BLACKPOOL FAIL IN GALLANT BID AT STOKE
This was a grand show by Blackpool. The match was being lost everywhere to a direct Stoke forward line for half an hour. During those 30 minutes a defeat and a big defeat seemed inevitable.
Then, with only 10 fit men Blackpool made it 2-2, outplayed the City, lost in the end, but if two big chances had been taken near the end might actually have won.
THE PLIGHT OF PRESTON THE first question they ask in Blackpool every week as soon as the half-time scores are signalled is:
“How are North End going on?”
Two games next week will decide it - and the first is at Wolverhampton on Monday: the second at Liverpool on Saturday. Neither is an enviable assignment. If North End are still in the First Division next Saturday evening they will deserve to be.
The Green - 75 years of BFC history -
Tangerines.co.uk - Stoke 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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