The Green

INOIT

INOIT

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Some of you may be interested in this if you used to enjoy reading The Green.

On www.tangerines.co.uk the BFC match reports from 1946-47 the first post war Football League season are set to appear 75 years after they were first published. In a personal project with the help of collectors and with kind permission of the Gazette. Match reports features and club articles will be appearing as they were written in The Green. The opening game featured was played on 31 August 1946 against Huddersfield Town.

You can learn how this project came about here https://www.tangerines.co.uk/p/about-this-project.html

From a footballing point of view with regards to Blackpool FC 1946-47 was a special season for the Seasiders. Being 75 years ago it was our highest finish in the First Division. It also saw a newly formed Blackpool Supporters Club and was the season before Stanley Matthews joined the club. There was speculation throughout of his possible signing which makes fascinating reading. Stanley Mortensen made his league debut for England scoring four goals on his debut. Blackpool also toured abroad in Sweden during the close season.

The Green as it was known still holds fond memories for many supporters and this collection of hard copies put together by John Cross will give us a fascinating insight into the history of the club. The intention is that it will fall under the Blackpool FC former Players Association auspices and hopefully the Blackpool FC Community Trust will be able to use the archive to support their own classes relating to the club history. Blackpool Central library holds microfiche-image versions of the Gazette available to the public but these are low quality, impossible to reproduce in the same manner.

The idea has been a few years in the planning but with the hiatus last year it was possible to make use of a little spare time to consider this as a possible working project. The entire 1946-47 season has been completed and the matches The Green covers will hopefully be published as close to their 75th anniversary on a rolling basis.

They have also being included in the Blackpool FC matchday programme and a 1970 match report taken from a later copy of The Green against Coventry City was recently featured.

I have included a list of Blackpool FC related links if I have missed anybody please let me know and of course I would be grateful for a link back.

Enjoy the read.

Peter

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I had a paper round about 1947/8, used to deliver The Gazette & The Green around Adelaide St, Albert Rd & Charnley Rd.
On the original Supporters club, my brother-in-law was, at one time the Chairman.
He was Scottish and a Dundee United fan as his older brother had played for them.
However he became a staunch Pool fan. 👍
 
INOIT said:
Some of you may be interested in this if you used to enjoy reading The Green.

On www.tangerines.co.uk the BFC match reports from 1946-46 the first post war Football League season are set to appear 75 years after they were first published. In a personal project with the help of collectors and with kind permission of the Gazette. Match reports features and club articles will be appearing as they were written in The Green. The opening game featured was played on 31 August 1946 against Huddersfield Town.

You can learn how this project came about here https://www.tangerines.co.uk/p/about-this-project.html

From a footballing point of view with regards to Blackpool FC 1946-47 was a special season for the Seasiders. Being 75 years ago it was our highest finish in the First Division. It also saw a newly formed Blackpool Supporters Club and was the season before Stanley Matthews joined the club. There was speculation throughout of his possible signing which makes fascinating reading. Stanley Mortensen made his league debut for England Scoring four goals on his debut. Blackpool also toured abroad in Sweden in the close season.

The Green as it was known still holds fond memories for many supporters and this collection of hard copies put together by John Cross will give us a fascinating insight into the history of the club. The intention is that it will fall under the Blackpool FC former Players Association auspices and hopefully the Blackpool FC Community Trust will be able to use the archive to support their own classes relating to the club history. Blackpool Central library holds microfiche-image versions of the Gazette available to the public but these are low quality, impossible to reproduce in the same manner.

The idea has been a few years in the planning but with the hiatus last year it was possible to make use of a little spare time to consider this as a possible working project. The entire 1946-47 season has been completed and the matches The Green covers will hopefully be published as close to their 75th anniversary on a rolling basis.

They have also being included the Blackpool FC matchday programme and a 1970 match report taken from a later copy of The Green against Coventry City was recently featured.

I have included a list of Blackpool FC related links if I have missed anybody please let me know and of course I would be grateful for a link back.

Enjoy the read.

Peter

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Imagine Neil Critchley stood there with a cigar in his mouth 😁
 
Congratulations to all concerned in this mammoth project. My experience of "The Green" began in the late fifties when Clifford Greenwood was the chief football reporter. The only trouble was that he always used to see a completely different game to the one I saw!
 
People don't realise now, but when we played away and you had been out all afternoon, you wouldn't necessarily know the score. I've got some of my Dads old copies, he always reckoned his favourite word in the Press was SKIRTON (goalscorer usually appeared in capitals). :)
 
coppiceman said:
People don't realise now, but when we played away and you had been out all afternoon, you wouldn't necessarily know the score. I've got some of my Dads old copies, he always reckoned his favourite word in the Press was SKIRTON (goalscorer usually appeared in capitals). :)
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That reminds me of one of Phil McEntee' s headlines ' Points certain , thanks Skirton '
 
I got mine on the way home from the match from a street seller, corner Talbot rd n cookson street. Always went that way to north station for a chat with the away fans.
 
I loved the Green. If you made it through town and back to Talbot Road Bus Station alive after a game it would usually already be printed and ready to buy from the news stand 🏝️ 👍
 
Great to hear this.
The Green kick started Saturday night very nicely in those days.
It was just taken for granted that it would be on sale at the newsagents (with queue) before 6pm with comprehensive reports on the games and all the local amateur football results including goal scorers.
 
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That was before my time. Because of where I live, I used to get the Manchester pink. Then the Liverpool version.
 
I used to subscribe for it to be delivered to my house in the midlands in the sixties (had the green and Mondays gazzette )every week until it stopped being printed ,anyone know when it stopped ,it used to get to me on the Wednesday 👍
 
I saved every Green Final for the 1952/3 season.
Unfortunately my mother chucked them out whilst I was in the Army in Germany. 🙄 😟
 
Aaah the nostagia.

As a young boy I too would wait at the newsagents for it`s arrival at about 6.30 pm and subsequently when I was away at boarding school and then when I left school and moved to work in Birmingham my mother ,bless her,always posted the Green on to me and I loved it!!!
 
1950`spoolfan said:
Aaah the nostagia.

As a young boy I too would wait at the newsagents for it`s arrival at about 6.30 pm and subsequently when I was away at boarding school and then when I left school and moved to work in Birmingham my mother ,bless her,always posted the Green on to me and I loved it!!!
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Nostalgia rules OK, my very first paid job was delivering the Gazette and the Green from Harry Johnston's paper shop on Central Drive,

I used too hate it if they were late a scrum developed everybody wanting theirs first,

It certainly brings back some happy memories of a halcyon time for Blackpool,
 
Loved it, we had a newsagents shop on Highfield Road in the early 70's and the Gazette van screeched and skidded outside our shop at about 5.15 to deliver the bundle of Greens. One of the only ways to get the football news in the day.
 
Obviously we have to move on but reading the stories above I do find myself questioning whether a young lad knowing about every goal in the country a microsecond after the ball has hit the back of the net is better than the excitement of finding out via the Green/Pink and the different ways of just obtaining the Green/Pink.

These computers will never catch on.
 
My Newsagent on Watson Rd in the late 70s early 80s was a non football grumpy bastard. Stayed open until 6pm on a Saturday and if the van hadn't dropped off The Geeen by then it was tough shit he was closing. There was always a little huddle of people waiting to grab that night's issue. Had the last ever issue from December 83 for many years but long since gone missing. There was a Special done for Promotion in 1985 had that as well for a long time.
 
L’étranger said:
I think I’ve got a copy of the last one. A 1-0 win against Torquay (Hetzke pen) if memory serves.
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Correct L. Very hit and miss season Couldve gone top early December. Struggled to get passed Bangor City in the FA Cup in December. 1-0 win at home against Torquay followed by the inevitable away defeat at Tranmere, followed by another at Halifax. Then a 5-0 home win on New Year's Day. Then beat Man City in the Cup !!
 
I well remember waiting in a crowd outside the newsagents in Devonshire Road for the Green and it was amazing how they printed the Pool match report so quickly. It was a really good read.
 
We also had a shop on Highfield Rd(Women and kids clothes) and lived above the shop. Moved there in 1959 from Halifax when I was 4 so a bit young for the green. Remember waiting for it on St David's Rd South in St Annes and Woodlands Rd Ansdell where we also lived above the shop and there was a newsagent across the road. Like others have said there was good coverage of local sport and junior football.
My Mum also very faithfully sent it to me every week when I worked in London. Happy memories.
 
As a youngster, early to mid 1960s I waited for the Green at the newsagents Squires Gate Lane / Lindale Gardens. Every other week (home matches), during the football season, Jimmy Armfield, Ray Charrnley and Barrie Martin waited patiently outside the shop for the heavy bundle of Greens to be dropped off. I used to stand next to them in unbridled hero worship!
How times have changed - these were, after all, top division footballers !!
 
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