1969 Promotion run in from 22nd feb 1969

[Sleeping Giant]

Originally Posted by Granada allover

Colin Taylor's thunderbolt of a free kick, a great atmosphere and the fact that the win made us begin to believe we could actually reach the First Division at last.

Cheers, finding footage of the goal would be something. Especially as there probably isn't any.

[KYLIE MINEAGLE]

Originally Posted by Ruskin Old Boy

Tuesday evening - away to Huddersfield.

(Away to Preston on the Saturday.)

Same players for all 4 matches.

But they were hard men in those days...….. (said in northern accent)

[Hedgehog]

Not sure if these are going to be readable. I took photos of the cuttings in my scrapbook rather than trying to scan them. The 50 year old Sellotape is a bit fragile and discoloured, but here goes anyway.

First off the Blackpool abandoned game talked of in this thread:

[Hedgehog]

The Leeds League Cup game:

[Hedgehog]

Fulham home game:

[Hedgehog]

The rearranged Blackpool game:

[Hedgehog]

The Derby away game (with a teaser of the Birmingham away game included):

[Granada allover]

Lovely stuff, o spikey one. Some fond memories in there.

[Hedgehog]

Originally Posted by Granada allover

Lovely stuff, o spikey one. Some fond memories in there.

Any other games from that season anyone wants to see let me know... it looks like I have them all.

[Sleeping Giant]

Wow, what a read they were HH. Top marks.

[davech]

Cheers, Hedgehog. Amazing stuff. I wish I had saved stuff like that!

[Pikie Punisher]

Originally Posted by Hedgehog

Not sure if these are going to be readable. I took photos of the cuttings in my scrapbook rather than trying to scan them. The 50 year old Sellotape is a bit fragile and discoloured, but here goes anyway.

First off the Blackpool abandoned game talked of in this thread:

No gloves in those days, it was rolled up sleeves and baseball boots from the local shoe shop, real men they was!

[Hedgehog]

I see the goalkeeper is wearing track suit bottoms though... poof!

I also believe the White mentioned in the report was Tommy White who had moved to Blackpool from Palace in March of the previous season.

[Pikie Punisher]

Originally Posted by Hedgehog

I see the goalkeeper is wearing track suit bottoms though... poof!

I also believe the White mentioned in the report had just moved to Blackpool from Palace.

True, that's northerners for you

[Granada allover]

Originally Posted by Hedgehog

Not sure if these are going to be readable. I took photos of the cuttings in my scrapbook rather than trying to scan them. The 50 year old Sellotape is a bit fragile and discoloured, but here goes anyway.

First off the Blackpool abandoned game talked of in this thread:

It was the only game in London not postponed before kick-off – and the cameras hot-footed it to Selhurst Park as a result. Which means that somewhere, in some archive gathering dust...

I remember they showed the game on The Big Match the next day - they had no choice. It was all they had to fill the programme.

[Pikie Punisher]

[Hedgehog]

Pretty sure the Blackpool player in the front there is the aforementioned Tommy White.

[Pikie Punisher]

Originally Posted by Hedgehog

Pretty sure the Blackpool player in the front there is the aforementioned Tommy White.

And then years later along came a Tommy Black!

[Percy Dalton]

50 years ago tonight Derby 0 Palace 1 (Woodruff) crowd over 30000

Palace were playing good stuff and were well and truly on a roll. Ahead another huge game v Birmingham on the following Saturday. It was hard to take a breath as the games were coming thick and fast. Rightly Bert was taking it one game at a time, but there was a massive game at home to Millwall on the horizon, at that time the biggest game between us and our local rivals (Brighton pah !) the talk in the pubs of Sarf London was all about the Millwall game as it came closer, just two weeks away.

[Granada allover]

People, you are reminding me big-time why I failed my 'O' Levels that year and had to re-sit them with the class below. Seriously, I could concentrate on nothing else than this push for Div. 1. It was a nasty shock when I got the slip of paper through the letterbox that August.