OLD PICTURES OF BLACKPOOL FC

That was my first Blackpool side, apart from one game in our relegation year of 66/67. Just missed promotion on goal average (0.21 of a goal). I can still name them all. My Mum & Dad got me the new socks with the two tangerine rings. I was so proud I rushed over to Fishers Field with my football just to show them off.
Fantastic squad that 1966 and who didn’t go on Fishers Field to play footy who lived around there, happy days indeed!👍
 
Not directly BFC but leading on from the Anglo Italian win. Was checking out the crazy structure in the Bologona stadium - you can see it behind a few team photos etc and found a couple of pics relating to the stadium’s original Fascist connections.

The new Littoriale stadium was inaugurated by Mussolini who survived an assassination attempt in Bologna later that day.

The statue was later pulled down (maybe cause there were rumours of plans to throw it through the club shop window) and dragged through the streets. The ground was also later renamed because of it's Fascist links.

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I thought i would post an old Blackpool lads piccy when i was a youth player.....inc in the pic are Thommo....John Butler...Bandagem (poster off here) and also Steve Walsh (Leicester city) good lads and a great team.
 
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forgot to add text another view of bloomfield road 1952 loads of charabans parked up hard to imagine now how large the bridge was over the multitude of railway lines
Hi. Is this from an agency or free to use? Looking for photos like this for the book. Thanks - Roy
 
Hi. I'm quite late to this thread and it's amazing. I'm wondering if any fan wants to donate any photo (rights free0 to the Flat Caps and Tangerine Scarves book coming out soon. You'' get a nice credit at the back! If so, please either reply or email me at calley1959@btinternet.com. Thank you.
 
I watched every game Emlyn Hughes played for Blackpool, he was only 19 when Blackpool sold him to Liverpool in Feb 1967 for what was then a British record fee of £65,000 for a teenager. Emlyn quickly built up a reputation at Blackpool as a hard enthusiastic tackler with an incredible will to win who had zero respect for reputations. Bill Shankly watched Hughes play in lots of Blackpool games as did the Liverpool captain Ron Yeats. Shankly was determined to get his man and even drove Emlyn back to Liverpool himself. The story goes that on the way back to Liverpool, a policeman stopped Bill Shankly for speeding, Shanks wound down his window and said to the policeman “ do you know who I have got in the back of this car? “, the policeman said No, Shanks said “ this is a future Captain of England “, the policeman peered into the back of Shank’s car and said he didn’t recognise him, Shanks said “ you will do very soon “ and a confused policeman then waved Shanks on his way.
 
One of my best ever week’s as a Blackpool fan was in mid October 1966, we beat Spurs 3-1 at White Hart Lane on the Saturday, Chelsea 3-1 in a League Cup replay at Stamford Bridge on the following Monday and then Newcastle United 6-0 at Bloomfield Road on the following Saturday. Emlyn Hughes played in all three matches. Alan Skirton our new signing from Arsenal scored 5 goals in those three matches and Alan Suddick stood out in a poor Newcastle team and Blackpool signed him a few weeks afterwards. Attending the League Cup replay at Chelsea was a very difficult decision, Emlyn Hughes and Peter Osgood were involved in a collision in the first game at Bloomfield Road, neither would pull out and Osgood got carried off on a stretcher with a broken leg, Emlyn Hughes got up, rubbed his shin and didn’t even need the trainer. The Chelsea fans were furious as was Ron Chopper Harris and blamed Hughes for breaking their hero Peter Osgood’s leg. This was in the days of football hooligans everywhere so Stamford Bridge was never going to be a safe place for Blackpool fans. Morty offered Emlyn Hughes the opportunity not to play in the Chelsea replay but Hughes wanted to play so I decided I had to go to support him. Emlyn Hughes was man of the match and he didn’t let any of the Chelsea intimidation affect him.
 
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Thought I'd post this. It's a photo from the Sunday Pictorial dated 6th Jan 1929. It's not a very clear photo but it's the earliest I have of The 'Pool in action. It shows Chelsea on the attack in a game at Stamford Bridge. Blackpool won 3-2 courtesy of goals by Neal, Tremelling and Hampson. The following season these were the two promoted teams.
 
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