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Full League Record of Spurs -v- Blackpool
Prem Pl W D L For- Ag Pts
Home 0 0 0 0 0 - 0 0
Away 0 0 0 0 0 - 0 0
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Total(Prem) 0 0 0 0 0 - 0 0
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Football Lge
Home(Div 1) 18 13 2 3 51 - 22 28
Away(Div 1) 18 7 6 5 21 - 21 20
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Total(Div 1) 36 20 8 8 72 - 43 48
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Football Lge
Home(Div 2) 7 3 2 2 19 - 11 8
Away(Div 2) 7 3 3 1 12 - 8 9
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Total(Div 2) 14 6 5 3 31 - 19 17
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Total(Prem) 0 0 0 0 0 - 0 0
Total(Div 1) 36 20 8 8 72 - 43 48
Total(Div 2) 14 6 5 3 31 - 19 17
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Grand Total 50 26 13 8 103 - 62 65
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Last Six Premiership results:-
Blackpool
Blackpool 2-2 Everton
A. Villa 3-2 Blackpool
West Ham 0-0 Blackpool
Blackpool 2-1 Wolves
Bolton 2-2 Blackpool
Stoke 0-1 Blackpool
Spurs
Spurs 1-1 S'derland
Spurs 4-2 Blackburn
Arsenal 2-3 Spurs
Spurs 2-1 Liverpool
B'mingham 1-1 Spurs
Spurs 1-1 Chelsea
Pos P W D L F-A GD Pts
5 Spurs 17 7 6 4 25-22 3 27
10 Blackpool 16 6 3 6 24-29 -5 22
MATCH POSTPONED
Blackpool - A surprise package
Congratulations to Blackpool for their achievement in winning promotion to the Premier League for the first time!. The "Seasiders" did it the hard way of course, via the Play-Off Final, and were promptly made favourites to go straight back down. All credit then to manager Ian Holloway and his players for the excellent results they have achieved and the 22 points they have accrued so far. This has been done on the back of only 6 home games, as Blackpool requested two away games at the start of the season to allow work to be completed at their stadium. They also lost their last home fixture to the weather two weeks ago. The freezing weather is again threatening this match and many other games in the football programme this week-end. I understand there is a pitch inspection at Blackpool at 10 a.m today.
Blackpool's last season in the top flight of the Football League was forty years ago in 1970-71, at a time when they were managed by the late Bob Stokoe, who went on to win FA Cup glory with Sunderland in 1973.
In their fallow years since relegation, Blackpool have spent time in the bottom levels of the league, but the charismatic Ian Holloway (once of QPR and Plymouth) has taken them back to the very top.
Blackpool have a famous history of course, mostly associated with the "Matthews" Final of 1953, when Stan Mortensen scored a hat-trick. The late great Sir Stanley Matthews referred to this episode as "The Mortensen Final" in his autobiography "The Way it Was" published in the year Stanley passed away in 2000. Blackpool had come back from 3-1 down to win the Final, and Matthews had a medal at last at the age of 38. It is amazing to think that he carried on playing professional football until 1965, when he was fifty years old. Sir Stanley started and finished his career at Stoke, but had 15 years at Blackpool. Stoke and Blackpool met last week, and the teams paid homage to the great Sir Stanley. Blackpool also got their fourth away win of the season. Only Arsenal and Man City have won more away games so far. Amongst Blackpool's away victims have been Liverpool, and the gritty Stoke in that last game.
Spurs have a connection with the 1953 FA Cup Final, because we were Blackpool's semi-final victims, as were were in 1948, when Matthews won his first (and the first) Footballer of the Year award. Spurs legend Danny Blanchflower is also a member of the prestigious club of those who have won the award more than once, which include Matthews.
The first time Spurs played Blackpool in the top flight was in our first game of the 1950-51 season, after promotion the previous season. We lost 4-1, and would never have dreamt that we would go on to win the League title! The late Eddie Baily scored Spurs only goal, but the great Matthews bamboozled the Spurs left side in front of a crowd of 64,798.
Spurs also played Blackpool in their very first season in the Football League drawing 1-1 away, and winning 4-1 at home. Spurs gained promotion, whilst Blackpool finished bottom and had to (successfully) seek re-election.
In our Double season of 50 years ago, Blackpool were twice our victims in August 1960. Quite often in those days one team would be played home and away early in the season, and when it was "The Seasiders'" turn they lost 3-1 at home (Medwin, Dyson - 2 ), and 3-1 at White Hart Lane (Bobby Smith hat-trick). The following season (co-incidentally on the corresponding week-end), Jimmy Greaves made his Spurs debut at home to Blackpool, and scored a hat-trick in a 5-2 win!
Our last league meetings were in the 1977-78 season, when we had one year in Division Two. We won the away game 2-0, with goals from Glenn Hoddle and John Duncan, but at home we were held 2-2, when Don McAllister and John Pratt scored our goals.
In 1991 we played Blackpool in the third round of the FA Cup. Paul Stewart scored the only goal at a cold and windswept Bloomfield Road, and we all know what happened at the end of that cup run! The last time we met was in the fourth round of the 2007-08 Carling Cup. We beat Blackpool 2-0 that time, and went on to win another Cup Final! This was Juande Ramos's first game in charge of Spurs.
Weather permitting then we travel to the north-west coast with the good news that Rafael van der Vaart, Younes Kaboul and Wilson Palacios are all fit and available for selection, and that Blackpool's skipper Charlie Adams will be suspended due to his five bookings. One of Blackpool's top scorers Marlon Harewood is on the injured list, but Spurs will need to look out for his equal, Luke Varney. One of Varney's goals was at Anfield, where he also won the penalty that gave his team a surprise lead.
Blackpool might not have any big names in their team, but they clearly have team spirit, coupled with the drive and determination to give any team a contest on their day. If played it will be a tough game, but I'll take Spurs to win 2-1.
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