Blackpool v Coventry City Dec 71 Flashback

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Bloodorange

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Tonight's match jolted the memories of a previous match up during the top flight campaign of 1970/71.Prior to this fixture Pool had amassed 16 league games without a solitary victory and were thus rooted to the foot of the table.

Pool finally broke the hoodoo with a 1-0 victory courtesy of a first half strike from John Craven

The line up

Taylor Armfield Mowbray Kemp Alcock Hatton Burns Green Craven Coleman Hutchison

The win elevated Pool off the bottom swapping places with Burnley and spurred a mini revival which lasted 6 games and encompassed the famous 4-0 Fa Cup victory over West Ham and 2-2 and 3-3 draws vs Liverpool and Manchester City.

It's the hope that kills you.Enjoy the game
 
Bloodorange said:
Tonight's match jolted the memories of a previous match up during the top flight campaign of 1970/71.Prior to this fixture Pool had amassed 16 league games without a solitary victory and were thus rooted to the foot of the table.

Pool finally broke the hoodoo with a 1-0 victory courtesy of a first half strike from John Craven

The line up

Taylor Armfield Mowbray Kemp Alcock Hatton Burns Green Craven Coleman Hutchison

The win elevated Pool off the bottom swapping places with Burnley and spurred a mini revival which lasted 6 games and encompassed the famous 4-0 Fa Cup victory over West Ham and 2-2 and 3-3 draws vs Liverpool and Manchester City.

It's the hope that kills you.Enjoy the game
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Yes v Man City Pool were 3-1 up and Tony Coleman and Fred Kemp were tearing them apart then we conceded 2 late on. Should have beaten Liverpool as well as Fred Pickering missed a sitter near the end.
 
I remember those results. It was about this time I developed an interest in following the pool. It probably explains my default belief that pools natural place is in the top flight.
 
Just checked (Saddo!). Gate of 11381 when we had been averaging over 20000. 2 more gates were lower towards end of season when relegation had been confirmed
 
bfcfan 1960 said:
i vaguely remember going to the game.
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Me too - but if I remember rightly (And I may have just dreamed this….) I recall the game was just shortly after the famous Coventry Ernie Hunt/Willie Carr ‘Donkey Kick’ free kick goal v Everton….

I seem to remember ‘Pool cheekily trying their own version v Coventry in that game. If memory serves, it came close, but didn’t go in.
 
Bloodorange said:
Tonight's match jolted the memories of a previous match up during the top flight campaign of 1970/71.Prior to this fixture Pool had amassed 16 league games without a solitary victory and were thus rooted to the foot of the table.

Pool finally broke the hoodoo with a 1-0 victory courtesy of a first half strike from John Craven

The line up

Taylor Armfield Mowbray Kemp Alcock Hatton Burns Green Craven Coleman Hutchison

The win elevated Pool off the bottom swapping places with Burnley and spurred a mini revival which lasted 6 games and encompassed the famous 4-0 Fa Cup victory over West Ham and 2-2 and 3-3 draws vs Liverpool and Manchester City.

It's the hope that kills you.Enjoy the game
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Dec 70 btw and I was there.
 
I was at this game too. Remember it for different reasons, I was due to go to the much hated dentists for a check up and my Mum clearly forgot about the appointment, anyway, morning became lunch, became early afternoon and off I popped to Bloomfield Road to witness the 1-0 win. Happy all round. :)
 
I have a continual lifetime's fascination with the 1970-71 season.I made my Bloomfield Road debut with my father vs Tottenham Hotspur on Easter Monday 1971.0-0 draw.

My only other offering that season was Crystal Palace which resulted in a 3-1 victory for the Pool.I may be unique in seeing them unbeaten that season.

I used to pour over the if's and but's and maybe's of so many defeats by one goal and many draws against the so called bigger sides.
I have always pondered what a relatively small investment in a couple of players may have achieved in that era.

Small margins as they would say these days
 
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