Cup Final - Blackpool 4 V Bolton 3 (1953)

[@everybodygotthegoodones]

Bolton fan here with family from Blackpool, Nat Lofthouse is a legend, great final, wish both teams were still at there best today.

[@NYJALB]

Never mind Stanley, that Eric Bell played a blinder on one leg!!!

[@hhill4413]

We had 10 inch telly,only one in street, every one welcome to view.never had so many visitors, although most could not get in, unforgettable. The greatest final. Privelidged to meet Stanley Mathews and Stan Mortenson later in life. Great times,Great People.

[@anoshya]

I saw Matthew’s play and watched this on my first birthday in 1953 in Blackpool..obviously could not recall the game but we won!!..did you notice also the Bolton team shaking hands and congratulating the Blackpool,players instantly..rarely seen today

[@hishamulhadi17]

how old are you?

[@microwave9996]

Everyone remembers Blackpool because of Stanley, I remember Blackpool because of my grandfather, Ernie Taylor

[@aberamagold7509]

There's quite a bit of information on your grandfather online, he wasn't "just some player". I'm sure you know this story but I'll share it anyway . "After Blackpool's defeat by Newcastle United in the 1951 FA Cup Final, it is said that Stanley Matthews told his manager, Joe Smith, that he would like the Magpies' inside-right in the Blackpool team", your grandfather was that inside-right player (remember when teams had 5 forwards?).

[@aberamagold7509]

​@@TheBadLieutenant That is rather ironic.

[@justhuy7960]

Hey did you meet him before because according to wiki he passed away quite early and also are you Geordie like him ?

[@microwave9996]

@@justhuy7960 no, he died before I was born

[@Cappellaio_Matto]

​@@microwave9996raccontaci qualcosa allora.

[@f0urstr1ng]

Never seen that Mortensen free kick before 3:35 that was some hit. Old leather casey too 👏👏

[@peterarmistead4617]

Best final ever. And seventy years on Morty’s record still stands!!

[@Atombender]

When you realize that this happened 70 years ago and the Queen and her Consort only recently passed away.

[@aberamagold7509]

My dad was from Blackpool and moved to Canada in 1952, so growing up I was well aware of the name Stanley Matthews. When I was 18 my team won the championship and after the game my dad was all excited because he'd heard Stanley Matthews was there and would be handing out the trophies. He was more excited about seeing his son shake hands and have a little chat with Stanley Matthews (super nice guy btw who did a lot for soccer in Canada) than he was about me winning the championship. Tbh it would've been a shock if we hadn't won but that's another story. My dad wouldn't go over and talk to him, he didn't want to bother one of his boyhood heroes, and I've always regretted not doing more to make it happen.

[@Hartley_Hare]

I think it's strangely touching that your Dad didn't want to bother him. That speaks to what a decent chap he must have been and, additionally, it's somehow fitting that he kept on admiring him from afar like the schoolboy he had once been.

[@alaniddon4025]

3 goals for Mortison and Mathew's gets man of the match I now believe in VAR 😂

[@soroushjogandomi6965]

good

[@christophermaley6822]

Harry Johnston......I am 67 yet he looks older than me and plays like an old man ? Very little closing down of space makes the pitch look huge. Defending and goalkeeping terrible despite the entertainment and Hungary were going to give us a lesson in football November 53.

[@Krzyszczynski]

Harry J may have been one of those unfortunate people who age quickly and die early - only 54 when he passed on.

[@gordonmonaghan133]

I'm sure that it was Harry Enfield doing the commentary!!

[@CB-xr1eg]

Oh for the days when people actually spoke English the way it was meant to be spoken. These days the commentators have someone alongside them who just keep saying, "Yea no, yea no".

[@TheGiantKillers]

Think the FA should amend the records to credit Bobby Langton with the second Bolton goal. It wouldn't be the first time they amended the records. Lord Kinnaird got his own goal scrubbed from the 1877 final after the game, despite it creating an anomaly where the records showed the match went to extra time despite it supposedly having ended 1-0 in normal time. The records were corrected in the 1970s to show it went to extra time because that game had actually ended 1-1.

[@cloud99vii27]

Stanley Mattew was something else, you can clearly see he had a different pace. Also Gk was really bad and it was nice to see the Queen on stadium, another era .

[@bluewhite9004]

Proper football

[@droylsdenblue]

The Bolton Goalie 🤦‍♂️

[@imnotftw]

Funny world where the entire royal family comes to the FA cup final. Football used to be a noble sport.

[@celestialrex551]

football is for the masses . its for the common people

[@StorminOGorman]

@@celestialrex551 which is why they looked so bored, they probably dreaded this day coming every May.

[@carlosnn8150]

Classes can collaborate guys

[@carlosnn8150]

@Rob it happened before, it can be done (from the latin facere, to do)

[@samOBT715]

Torchwood brought me here!

[@stefanmaslaczyk1259]

George Farm fumbled the first shot from Lofthouse, never recovered and had a nightmare of a game.

[@martinintrospective3491]

Modern footballers are standing on the shoulders of giants/ MATHEWS .

[@CB-xr1eg]

Matthews* Spell the great man's name correctly please.

[@nathanpreston3899]

What stadium is it

[@paulkenneally789]

Wembley.. dog track around the pitch.. final seconds of film and you see one of the now demolished twin towers.

[@silgen]

Goalkeepers were comically bad in those days.

[@TOCC50]

Great country back then

[@renex_g3915]

Goalkeepers at that time only tried to stop the ball or punch it out of the way. Lev Yashin was the one keeper who revolutionized the position. He started to play with his feet, catch the ball on corners, and basically created the modern techniques that GK use for 1v1 scenarios. That's why Yashin is considered the greatest GK of all time, he played like Manuel Neuer in a time where a GK looked like the ones on this video

[@bluewhite9004]

@@renex_g3915 my hero Yashin

[@richardhawkins4621]

Nobody paid a lot of money on goalkeepers and now i can see why😅

[@indigohammer5732]

Bring back Football Rattles and rosettes!

[@sicks6six]

anyone who could run around for 90 minutes wearing pit boots must have been fit,

[@PepsiMan42069]

just about any league 2 goalkeeper could've put up historical numbers in this game

[@carlosnn8150]

Try handling a 5+ lb hard leather ball, in the time where technique was more valued than going to the gym, and when having 3 in the back was considered defensive (2 was the norm)

[@renex_g3915]

Goalkeepers at that time only tried to stop the ball or punch it out of the way. Lev Yashin was the one keeper who revolutionized the position. He started to play with his feet, catch the ball on corners, and basically created the modern techniques that GK use for 1v1 scenarios. That's why Yashin is considered the greatest GK of all time, he played like Manuel Neuer in a time where a GK looked like the ones on this video

[@Salmaan_Mahmud]

Stan Mortensen

[@cardboardcapeii4286]

Idve fired the black pool keeper

[@jontalbot1]

Christ on a bike the keepers were terrible

[@johnrowell3583]

Let's be honest, the level was dire, like watching schoolboy football, and let's not talk about the goalkeepers!

[@Fricasso79]

With the boots they used to have back then, I'm amazed they could play even this well.

[@murpho999]

It wasn’t dire but train8g, equipment, nutrition etc just weren’t the same then. Medical and physical care not the same and no subs and poor picture quality doesn’t help ether.

[@oleggorky906]

Harry McGuire plays like Matthews ... but not Stanley ... Bernard!

[@CB-xr1eg]

Oh ho ho, what a rib tickler...NOT! Shame you can't even spell the name of someone you're attempting to take the piss out of. What a melt!

[@captainblimp4133]

don't know who the Blackpool goalkeeper is but he's terrible

[@renex_g3915]

Goalkeepers at that time only tried to stop the ball or punch it out of the way. Lev Yashin was the one keeper who revolutionized the position. He started to play with his feet, catch the ball on corners, and basically created the modern techniques that GK use for 1v1 scenarios. That's why Yashin is considered the greatest GK of all time, he played like Manuel Neuer in a time where a GK looked like the ones on this video

[@christophermaley6822]

George Farm ......wouldn't make a league 2 club these days? My Dad use to go on about how great some of these players were whilst criticising English footie from the 70's up to the early 2000's. You only have to look at YT to compare the various eras and it's a MYTH that 50's English footie was great as proved by the Hungarians in 53 and 54. The 60's were much better but by the 70's the game was getting much quicker and more defensive or some would say more professional and our goalies were all top quality.

[@captainblimp4133]

@@christophermaley6822 The 80s is when football starts getting recognisable, were probably the toughest era for a footballer, because the game really starts to quicken up and also gets really defensive , referee's allow players to get away with brutal tactics. A lot of early 80s players could still dominate matches well into the 90s, even though they were damaged by all the tough tackling they received in the 80s.

[@jontalbot1]

@@christophermaley6822 There is simply no comparison. The players are fitter, faster, stronger and far better technically. The tactics are way more sophisticated based on analytics. The level of medical care, training and psychological preparation is far greater. Players regulate their diets instead of living off meat pies, brown ale and Woodbines