Happiest you have been as a Pool fan

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tangysider

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The Prem was a dream come true but it was built on foundations of sand. So even though there were some fantastic memories the new regime tops it for me.
This is the most professional we have been in my lifetime, and progress is being made throughout the club.
I would not trade slow and steady progress for 1 spectacular season where we crash and burn after.
 
tangysider said:
The Prem was a dream come true but it was built on foundations of sand. So even though there were some fantastic memories the new regime tops it for me.
This is the most professional we have been in my lifetime, and progress is being made throughout the club.
I would not trade slow and steady progress for 1 spectacular season where we crash and burn after.
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Funnily enough I went to the Burnley Friendly and was just sat there at half time looking around the stadium thinking about stuff and watching the subs doing all their warm up properly and it brought a smile to my face and I said to my lad at the time, we just look like a proper professional club who are going somewhere. We just have that look and feel about us as a club atm.
 
Hadley said:
Liverpool 1 Blackpool 2 3rd October 2010 took some beating. Walking back to the car thinking did that just happen!
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I remember Blackpool being applauded off the pitch by Liverpool supporters. But that was a highlight for me rather than a feeling we were making progress, and it is the way the club is currently being run, that makes me happy, from exciting youth, a recognisable transfer policy, tying good players on long term contracts, investment in the ground, and Critch himself. I do not think we had any of the first 4 during Prem league unless you were swayed by our legacy sprinklers
 
Larryknows said:
Funnily enough I went to the Burnley Friendly and was just sat there at half time looking around the stadium thinking about stuff and watching the subs doing all their warm up properly and it brought a smile to my face and I said to my lad at the time, we just look like a proper professional club who are going somewhere. We just have that look and feel about us as a club atm.
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Pretty much the same Larry, you look at the club now and just know that we're on a rock steady foundation.
Blackpool FC have had some great moments In the last 30 odd years but if we succeed now it's because everything is in place for us to do so.
Right now is a great time to be a Blackpool fan because of this 😁👍🏻
 
whereas all the off field problems of the last so many years are vitally important to our history when it all comes down to it for me, it's the football that is and always will be the most important part of my life. Ididn't grow up as a kid thinking about off field matters. It was all about the game of football itself. So on to the question itself, yep winning and being at Deepdale in 1970 was very special but it was fifty years ago and so so many memories of how special fade into the back of my mind So what's left? The day at Wembley in 2010 and being with family and friends and old enough to appreciate it will always be the pinnacle. And then some of those incredible matches that followed in that PL season.
Can it be topped? Not for me unless we do it all again and make it back to the PL. But even that, considering our new owner, is a more realistic ambition, than it ever was previously. That day back in 2010 was so unrealistic and so yeah, never see that being surpassed. .
 
Without a doubt - Yeovil play off final. Thought we were never gonna get out of that division.
 
20togo said:
whereas all the off field problems of the last so many years are vitally important to our history when it all comes down to it for me, it's the football that is and always will be the most important part of my life. Ididn't grow up as a kid thinking about off field matters. It was all about the game of football itself. So on to the question itself, yep winning and being at Deepdale in 1970 was very special but it was fifty years ago and so so many memories of how special fade into the back of my mind So what's left? The day at Wembley in 2010 and being with family and friends and old enough to appreciate it will always be the pinnacle. And then some of those incredible matches that followed in that PL season.
Can it be topped? Not for me unless we do it all again and make it back to the PL. But even that, considering our new owner, is a more realistic ambition, than it ever was previously. That day back in 2010 was so unrealistic and so yeah, never see that being surpassed. .
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For me, my best time watching the Mighty was under King Billy because it just meant more to me at the age I was.

Obviously 2010 was a far bigger achievement with a better team and I know lots who also enjoyed sharing the Prem times with their kids and/or grandkids.
 
Another one for me was watching a premier league match with my lads.
I'd watched Blackpool, albeit as a nipper, the last time we were in the top flight but never thought my lads would get the chance.

Thinking that we'd never get there again and then to be sat with my lads watching a match was the cherry on top of the cake.
 
Tricky one for me. I think 2007's promotion to the Championship is up there simply because I'd never seen us play in the second tier. Also obviously 2010 too but there was something very special about beating Lincoln at Wembley. Probably because we've done it in a new dawn where the future looks really bright.
 
Wizzerboy said:
Another one for me was watching a premier league match with my lads.
I'd watched Blackpool, albeit as a nipper, the last time we were in the top flight but never thought my lads would get the chance.

Thinking that we'd never get there again and then to be sat with my lads watching a match was the cherry on top of the cake.
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I’ve a funny , deep down feeling that I’ll be replicating that moment with both my kids in the near future.
 
Getting in to the PL. But personal memories too. Just looking back at my faves, Bamber, Methven, Mellon get me all emotional. Now feels special too. Most together we have ever been.
 
One that springs to mind the last 10 mins at Wembley against Cardiff thinking we are actually going to the premiership.
supported pool for 43 years and watched some tripe over the years so that was a moment to remember
 
Happy ?? As a Blackpool fan?? Behave. 😂

Winning or losing games has its own highs and lows, some amazing highs at Wembley for me, some real lows at Bloomers, when we got beaten by a Huddersfield team containing Gnasher, I knew in my heart the highs were gone, and we were back to where we had been for much of the previous 30 years.

As a kid, I was never a statto, I just enjoyed each occasion, win lose or draw. To be in the Scratching Shed surrounded by many ( or often few) fellow fans made me happy.

So happiest has to be the Homecoming, because the match and result mattered not one jot. Meeting up by the Tower, nodding to Big Ben, TV cameras around and flipping thousands of Pool fans all marching together, singing, Colours flying, Tangerine Jelly. The sight of Bloomfield Road with Tangerine on all sides, 90 plus minutes of chanting from all sides. I could have died happy.

UTMP
 
Difficult to say. In no particular order:
Winning the Play-off final in 2010
Winning the Lge 1 Play-final this year
The Blackpool are Back March and match
Simon Sadler taking over as owner and every day since. Too much happiness.
Cleaning pigeon shit off seats! All for better conditions in the ground.
 
I've got 2......

Peterborough Away in the Championship 2010.....What a day, the sun was shining, the ground was packed but you could still get a pint across the road.
The place was rocking, away fans were in fancy dress and we fought back and made Baby Fergie look a total **...Classic away day

Wigan Away (first game in the Prem 2010/11)
When Taylor-Fletcher scored after 15 minutes and then Marlon scored another two before half time......I was jumping up and down in dis-belief, I (honestly) fainted for a few seconds...best away day EVER
 
Suddick's Ghost said:
I fully understand about all the above and I've been lucky enough to witness them all, but I have never been happier than Homecoming Day.
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Yes i totally agree a new owner would be coming in and that turned out to be Simon Sadler, its been the biggest turning point in our history imo.

We have a Club now we can call OUR CLUB.

Soak it all up fellow Pool fans the futures TANGERINE UTMP
PS the added importance of the Homecoming game was Simon said when he watched the match the passion of the fans ignited his desire to buy the Club ,
 
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Levi501 said:
The legendary win at Deepdale 1970
Beating Arsenal 3-2 at bloomers after being 2-0 down in FA cup, Jan 1970.Wembley 2010.
Defeat in court of the previous owners.
The homecoming, and ‘Right here, Right now!’ Unbelievable!
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The court hearing was up there for me. I've done excited and happiest at the top of the thread. I suppose that 'most satisfied' would have to be when I read about the size of the bill awarded against the Oystons. I figured it might be the end for them at that point.
 
1966_and_all_that said:
The court hearing was up there for me. I've done excited and happiest at the top of the thread. I suppose that 'most satisfied' would have to be when I read about the size of the bill awarded against the Oystons. I figured it might be the end for them at that point.
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Absolutely, we were on our way to IKEA to meet our daughter and husband when we heard the news on the radio, when we met them we were jumping around and whooping in the entrance like complete nutters! Oh happy day!
 
tangysider said:
The Prem was a dream come true but it was built on foundations of sand. So even though there were some fantastic memories the new regime tops it for me.
This is the most professional we have been in my lifetime, and progress is being made throughout the club.
I would not trade slow and steady progress for 1 spectacular season where we crash and burn after.
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100% true!
 
Wembley 2010 for obvious reasons, but also because it was my son's first game. It was brilliant to be able to take him to his first game. Although he was only 2, I wanted him to be able to say 'I was there!' when he was older. It worked, as he's now a massive Pool fan!
 
For me it was the play off win against scunny in 92
I never thought being a Blackpool fan that I would get to see Blackpool win at Wembley, it made up for the hurt against torquay the previous seaso

Little did I know what would be happening

Obviously 2010 was surreal as I wondered round thinking what has just happened and grinning like a Cheshire cat
 
I can combine the saddest and the happiest. I can remember walking out of the ground in the middle of a game thinking that I might never see my beloved Blackpool again. I am no longer a spring chicken and with that family entrenched I genuinely thought I would never see the inside of Bloomfield Road again. Seeing Fred Pickering’s hat trick, experiencIng the joy of three play-off finals at the new Wembley were so special but nothing compares with that first return to the ground more than 4 years later. Magical.
 
Until the boycott been to every play off game etc but for both and for different reasons Cardiff and Forest in the play offs in 2010
 
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