Did your family go tangerine?

HatfulofHollow

HatfulofHollow

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So sticking to Mum, Dad and siblings - did you all go tangerine?
Dad was Blackpool, Mum wasn't arsed, Brother became a Liverpool fan 😕
 
Mum, Dad and (maternal) Grandad. My parents even arranged their honeymoon around Fulham away. I miss them all x
 
Dad was East Fife and Rangers yet started watching Blackpool when stationed at Weeton RAF barracks

Mum was a true Sandgrown'un
 
My Mum is from Freckleton, Dad from St Helens. He was initially a Liverpool fan but converted to Blackpool when he moved to Clifton. My Mum has always been tangerine. My brother and I didn't get, nor want, another option. 🧡
 
Just me, no one else interested in football. Fortunately a neighbour started taking me, age 8, a handful of games each season until a friend's dad took us regularly after we dropped out of Div 1.
 
Dad was tangerine
Mum not fussed
Brother and sister, tangerine

Struggling with my kids though. Brought them up tangerine, full kits the lot, Wembley trips and the like. One isn’t bothered at all now, and the other it seems to depend upon who she is dating at the time supports. Currently Chelsea 🤦‍♀️

Gutted.
 
Dad was Staining born and always Tangerine (he was at Wembley in '53), I believe his Dad was also Tangerine but can't remember much about him as he passed away when I was about 7 or 8.

Mum was Staffordshire born and raised, move to Blackpool in her mid-teens with her father after her parents separated. Grandad was a Stoke fan (I suspect he only moved to Blackpool to follow Sir Stan) but over the years, Blackpool became very much his second team

Dad started to take me to Bloomfield Rd as a 6 year old and my blood turned Tangerine. My first away game was that iconic day at Dumpdale at the end of that season
 
My Dad was a Tang, and so was his Dad. Mine took me when I was 4 and sat me on the wall at the West Stand every fortnight, so I really had no choice. Saying that...I did take my daughter and did exactly the same when she was 4. She was also dressed top to toe in Tangerine. She now says that these days...that is almost equivalent to Child Abuse ! 🤣🤣 ...but she's still a supporter 🧡
 
My dad took me when I was 8 to see Stanley Matthews play, he never went again, so I’m the only one. Wife hates football as do my two daughters, my twin sons are long term city fans as we lived there for some time and my grandchildren are either city or Chelsea as one daughter married a hard core Chelsea fan
 
Dad and brother tangerine. Dad born in Stretford so technically I suppose we could have been Man Ure.
Praise the Lord!
 
HatfulofHollow said:
So sticking to Mum, Dad and siblings - did you all go tangerine?
Dad was Blackpool, Mum wasn't arsed, Brother became a Liverpool fan 😕
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Dad introduced me to the mighty back in 1962 as season ticket holders in South West stand.
Whole family now Seasiders inc daughter in laws’ transfer from nobbers.
 
NewburyOne said:
My Mum is from Freckleton, Dad from St Helens. He was initially a Liverpool fan but converted to Blackpool when he moved to Clifton. My Mum has always been tangerine. My brother and I didn't get, nor want, another option. 🧡
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My ex was from St helens they are known as Woolly-backs
 
Grandad was a tangerine and at Wembley in 53 (I’ve got his ticket stub and a commemorative letter opener - which is an odd one) and I understand his dad and grandad before him were Seasiders going back to pre-tangerine times!

Interesting is that my partner isn’t a football fan (although is now is an honorary tangerine) but her brother is a nobber… because his great grandad and great great uncle won the FA cup for PNE…

What he didn’t know is they both ended up at Blackpool (by choice) and would have played with the likes of Morty and Matthew’s and possibly won the Championship had it not been for WWII !
 
Only my dad was interested in footy... and he was a seasider through and through. That's why I am. And I still love every minute of it!
 
Dad was from Knobbersvile and although Mum was brought up in Catterall she was a Knobber as was my Gran.
Fortunately, all my peers in Catterall were Seasiders.

No brothers or sisters.
 
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Mum and Dad both from Poulton and my Mum's family from Hambleton. I was born in Preston and grew up in Chipping. Didn't even know Blackpool had a team until, aged 13, my mate Mason Kid in Art at school asked if I wanted to go watch them with with his brother Ticker and Pops Mason.
 
I grew up with young friends who supported City or United. All I was I terested in was when my dad was going to take me to the football. I didn't think beyond Blackpool.
 
Mum and sisters had no interest in football. Dad's interest never went beyond occasionally watching MOTD and The FA Cup Final with me. ( I thank him for that as he was from the NOBLOT area so I could have ended up being a murderers supporter if he'd been a fan!) 😂
 
My ol man was painting the house outside on a ladder listening to the 53 cup final. I was only 5 .Every time we scored he shot down the ladder . I,d never seen my ol man drink but boy did he shift some beer that night!!
He Worked on Saturdays but took me to my first game against Man Utd before Munich happened.
Gave me money to go from then on ,on the condition I brought him back "the football" paper so he could check the Pools. Exciting times and a REAL buzz about the place. All I really remember is old men smoking pipes, wooden rattles ,the smell of p*ss and tobacco.
 
All Tangerine, all six of us. Shame the oul' fella just missed the promotion to the Prem. He was probably watching it up there in 3D! Mind you, he went to all three FA Cup Finals we were in.
 
Lala said:
Dad was tangerine
Mum not fussed
Brother and sister, tangerine

Struggling with my kids though. Brought them up tangerine, full kits the lot, Wembley trips and the like. One isn’t bothered at all now, and the other it seems to depend upon who she is dating at the time supports. Currently Chelsea 🤦‍♀️

Gutted.
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Oh dear that is annoying but don’t give up !
Currently my son and I are in the process of converting my daughters boyfriend ( Liverpool fan ) , anything’s possible 😁
 
Dad was Villa
Mother wasn't arsed with football
Sister is a cnut
Me and my lads, Blackpool
Mrs Wizz, not that bothered but went regularly in the 80's with me and her Dad (a '53 attendee) in the '60/'70's
 
old man is a Blackpool fan as was his old man, two brothers support the mighty….1 supports Newcastle having moved there during the Keegan years. My wife is now an avid supporter having had no interest in footy till I took her to Colchester at home in 04. My eldest is tangerine, youngest reckons he supports United but every time he’s gone to Bloomers he loves it and knows all the players, just need to work harder on him. As much as BFC drive us mad I wouldn’t want it any other way
 
My Grandfather was Wigan as he played for them at non-league level in the 50s. Other grandfather is Huddersfield.

They moved to Blackpool and my Dad was a Seasider and took me.

My brother is a plastic scouser through my stepdad but also uses “we” and “us” for Blackpool and AFC Fylde which I’ve never got my head around.

My son was born in Stockholm so I’ll take him to watch Hammarby IF but he’ll also be a Pool fan.
 
Before I went to any games, I supported Man U because of George Best. My dad was a Burnley fan having been brought up in Rossendale. He wanted to go to Bloomfield Road on Boxing Day 1970.
He had to take me. I’ll never forget my first sight of the pitch and the wondrous Tony Green. I was hooked and me and dad had to go to every home game. Thanks dad
 
Grandad was a Utd fan moved to Blackpool after the war, started watching The Pool and took me in the early 70s at 4 years old. All my 5 kids have had the same upbringing and bleed tangerine, the grandkids all get Blackpool kits for Christmas so working on them too, albeit they are all over the world.
 
Dad was born in Mancland so was a United fan, mum came from East London so supports WHAM - somehow they ended up together and living in Blackpool when I was born. The old chap took me to BR in the early '70s as a very young kid but stopped after the murder. So, I was the only Tangerine in the family. At the age of 7, we moved to Essex where I was the only T in the school. Now, I'm the only T in Indonesia!
 
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