Harry Catterick at Bellefield 1961/62 - Harry hated the media reading his autobiography again now - he had signed Howard Kendall for just 2 hours & telephoned the sports editor of The Sun newspaper to tell him he had a big scoop of a major story only if he would keep the source private that LFC had signed Howard Kendall lol it was headlines on their back page the next day lol -
England's line-up - Dixie Dean is stood behind Tosh Johnson. England beat Ireland 1-0 at Blackpool on 17/10/32. It was a final call-up for Dean & Johnson. Dixie was just 25. Tosh was 31 - it was their last call up for their country, astonishingly -
This guy as a kid stood on the Kop with Dario Terracotta - they joined us because of our fantastic Bellfied training complex - we should have never let him go to Ipswich - given away really - a bad mistake -
Just been reading A Ball of Fire on Bally his two players he based his game on - Denis Law & Bryan Douglas of Blackburn - they were an inspiration to him - for @Eggs & co -
Alan Ball aged only seventeen, pictured just before playing for Blackpool's first team against Liverpool in which he had a great game, and they won at Anfield 2-1 - a sign of things to come for us - for @Eggs & co -
Alan Ball represented England 72 times, scoring eight goals, and was appointed captain of the national side in 1975. Clubs: Blackpool, Everton, Arsenal, Southampton
Honours: 1 World Cup, 1 Division One Championship, 1 Charity Shield