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Post by whitstabletangerin on Jan 1, 2011 12:09:31 GMT 1
;D My neighbour a short while ago brought over a book left to him by an old friend who had passed away early December, a football encyclopaedia published in June 1934. BLACKPOOL (1887) Bloomfield Road Dark blue and light blue stripped jerseys, white knickers. Ground capacity 32,000 It then goes on to tell how the clubs was formed from the amalgamation of the two clubs, it's finances and early progress. There is a paragraph that reads; Though the club has often been financially embarrassed, loyal support has always been forthcoming, and many improvements have been made at the ground, including a new grandstand, which was completed for the 1925-26 season. The most novel "international" game ever staged at "The Pool" was in 1921, when a team of lady footballers representing Ireland opposed Dick Kerr's famous women's team. The "Irishwomen" were beaten handsomely. So I have learned two things today, one, "The Pool" was banded about as early as 1934 and seconed that women played football in 1921.
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Post by yenilira on Jan 1, 2011 12:51:53 GMT 1
Morning, Whit.
I remember posting about Kerr's Ladies on the PNE board a while back - their factory was in that wee toon. An article of double page proportions was in the press at that time. Even Plumbs was complimentary of my thread.
Great story.
YL.
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Post by louisea on Jan 1, 2011 13:20:48 GMT 1
always used to make me smile the way shorts were referred to as knickers
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Post by whitstabletangerin on Jan 1, 2011 13:35:52 GMT 1
Well Louise, when I was at school, used to watch the girls playing netball through the railings and their shorts were referred to as knickers by the boys and that was the fifties. I know what you are going to say, but that's what lads did and probably still do, anyway always had a thing about legs. Women's that is.
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Post by Tangerine Sherlock on Jan 1, 2011 15:24:42 GMT 1
The womens game in the 20's was attracting crowds of 45,000 plus, but the powers that be did not like this, as it was getting bigger crowds than the mens game, so they put a stop to it sadly and took another 60 years before it started to gain momentum again
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Post by yenilira on Jan 1, 2011 17:12:42 GMT 1
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Post by whitstabletangerin on Jan 1, 2011 18:33:25 GMT 1
Yeni, yes just amazing how many went to watch the ladies all those years ago, considering we had just finished with the 1st World War and with little money, no NHS etc.
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Post by mickyg on Jan 7, 2011 12:09:07 GMT 1
The auntie of one of our current all conquering girls (Ellie Whittaker) drinks with me in my local in Madchester............and she's going out with a nobber! Small world innit?
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