Interesting...I only saw one game of MA's Blackpool, away at Huddersfield, where we battered them but only drew thanks to a late equaliser. This is at Bloomfield Rd, so who is the visiting boss...ahem....'managing'?
Birmingham. It ended 1-1
The team I started to support way back when!
On one of the VHS highlights videos, the camera is following the play right to left....Briggsy appears for a split second on screen and takes out one of the forwards, full body smash. I'm surprised the poor sod didn't end up in hospital. He didn't see him coming and it was like being hit by a train.
I remember this game well,mainly due to the fact that hardly any bugger who lived in Wigan seemed to know that a football team existed outside of Wigan RLFC Central Park.
The last Pool shirt I bought.
Maybe a lack of squad depth was to blame?. The forward line of Madden,Walwyn,Cunningham and Taylor for our 87/88 Centenary season should definitely done better than mid table.
BB what you doing in the signal box when the tracks have been taken up?
David Webb playing for Southampton 66/7 possibly?Who’s the team and defender against the Mighty (Ray Charnley)?
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Good shout FP thought it was David Webb but l don’t remember him playing for Southampton
He did!!Good shout FP thought it was David Webb but l don’t remember him playing for Southampton
Spot on FP he was playing that game in the 66/67 season when they won here 3-2 and just remembered l was at that game!
Cleaning my bikeWho’s the team and defender against the Mighty (Ray Charnley)?
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I dont have a dogNot dogging then!
And we beat them 5-0 at The Dell, but still went down.Spot on FP he was playing that game in the 66/67 season when they won here 3-2 and just remembered l was at that game!
That Huddersfield game was definitely the first game in the new North and West. Ian Marshall scored for us and John O'Kane was outjumped by 5'5 Leon Knight at the far post for him to score the winner in the last minute. I think Wikipedia refers to the "official" opening which took place in the summer.
Was that the one where there was an evacuation drill and we all trouped down onto the pitch?
5-1. I was at a reserve game the same day and no one could believe the score line as it was being updated on the board by the steward with the white numbered tiles:.️1-
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Looks like Dave Webb thought “ No way I can out jump Charnley so I won’t bother wasting my time.”Who’s the team and defender against the Mighty (Ray Charnley)?
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Probably my favourite Blackpool squad with 2010's close behind.
I was at that game. Very intimidating they even had to bring our coaches into the ground. Think Alan Mayes scored during an impressive loan spell & was shite when we signed him. Think they got revenge in an FA Cup tie later that season.
I remember a lad with MFC tattooed on his head stood next to me.
I remember a bald lad with a red sweatshirt on, looked like Duncan Goodhew, he was one of the first in, and I knew when a few more began to follow him, it was looking dodgy. Saw some of the same faces on Revoe Park at the home game later that season.
Most footy agg books around that time boro get good reviews
it looks like that page is from the 'middlesbrough evening gazette', not the 'west lancashire evening gazette'. slightly ironic considering there's not too many gazettes about.
Went with my mate in his uncle's car. I seem to recall some aggro after the game.
Went on a coach. On way back just outside Huddersfield two Pool fans started fighting each other and the coach driver ejected them from the vehicle and told them to walk home. Crikey is it really 52 years ago ?!
Never smoked in his life, of course.
