OLD PICTURES OF BLACKPOOL FC

Ball on Fire said:
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I agree Ball’s stint as Player Manager was a disaster, Ball admits in his autobiography that he lacked experience and found it difficult to play, manage and deal with the Boardroom. He also said he should have brought in a more experienced person to work alongside him and should have offered former Pool Manager Stan Ternent a role. It was a real coup at the time for Blackpool to get Alan Ball as Player Manager, we were a 3rd tier Club in almost terminal decline since the mid 70s from when Alan Brown was sacked and this continued throughout the 1980s and into the early 1990s when we ended up in the bottom tier of English football on two different occasions. When Alan Ball first came in as Player Manager he was full of enthusiasm and ideas but when the Pool fans turned on him after a bad run of results he found it very difficult to accept criticism and in the end he had to go. Alan Ball then joined Southampton and played a lot of games in the top tier of English football after he was sacked by Blackpool. Former Pool great Stan Morty was also sacked by Blackpool after a short stint as Manager as was Allan Brown. Jimmy Armfield never took on the Blackpool Manager role, despite a good record as Manager of Bolton & doing very well after taking over from Brian Clough following his disastrous spell as Manager of Leeds Utd.
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Wow there boy, the 80s were not all terminal decline,83/84 we recovered well enough from re-election disaster to mount a promotion push and finish sixth,it also included a fantastic FA cup win against Man.City,and 84/85 we achieved the last automatic promotion the club has achieved so far. Even the basement years of 90/91&91/92 once King Billy took the reigns the club began to be a vibrant place again,I wish we had the away following now that we did under King Bill.
 
Alfie Conn said:
Wow there boy, the 80s were not all terminal decline,83/84 we recovered well enough from re-election disaster to mount a promotion push and finish sixth,it also included a fantastic FA cup win against Man.City,and 84/85 we achieved the last automatic promotion the club has achieved so far. Even the basement years of 90/91&91/92 once King Billy took the reigns the club began to be a vibrant place again,I wish we had the away following now that we did under King Bill.
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I remember the 1960s & early 1970s with Pool in Div 1 and even when we were in Div 2 we challenged for promotion. Fantastic players — Gordon West, Tony Waiters, George Wood, John Burridge and they were all goalkeepers. We also had Armfield (England captain) & Emlyn Hughes plus Ray Charnley, Alan Ball, Alan Suddick, Tony Green, Tommy Hutchison, Micky Burns, Mickey Walsh, Fred Pickering, Bob Hatton, Paul Hart, Alan Ainscow etc etc. I never ever saw the day when Blackpool would be outside the Top 2 Divisions and in the bottom tier fighting re-election.
 
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"A happy chairman of Blackpool Football Club Mr Peter Lawson with new 1980 season signings Alan Ball (left) and Ted Macdougall at the Tangerine Club"
 
ste said:
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Armfield against Everton (19th September 1970)

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Armfield outside Bloomfield Road (August 1970)
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That picture against Everton , I was on the Kop , and it was my 18th birthday. Unfortunately the Everton supporters kindly threw a AA battery against my head , so really rough on my big night out . It was also the game when Tony Green made his comeback as a sub after a year out with a ruptured Achilles.
 
ansdellmafia said:
That picture against Everton , I was on the Kop , and it was my 18th birthday. Unfortunately the Everton supporters kindly threw a AA battery against my head , so really rough on my big night out . It was also the game when Tony Green made his comeback as a sub after a year out with a ruptured Achilles.
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I was there that day, by my adding up it makes you 6 days younger than me! 👍
 
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