1965–66 Blackpool F.C. season

English football club season July 2026 December 2014 Blackpool F.C. 1965–66 Division One Ron Suart 13th Alan Ball & Ray Charnley (16) Ray Charnley (19) FA Cup Third roundEntered competition in third round League Cup Third roundEntered competition in second round _whiteborder _whitecollar _whiteborder ffa500 ffa500 ffa500 ffffff ffa500 1964–65 1966–67 The 1965–66 season was Blackpool F.C.'s 58th season (55th consecutive) in the Football League. They competed in the 22-team Division One, then the top tier of English football, finishing thirteenth. Ray Charnley was the club's top overall scorer for the eighth consecutive season, with 19 goals. Alan Ball (sixteen goals) shared the accolade with him in the league. Christmas during the Middle Ages was a public festival with annual indulgences included the sporting.Forbes, Bruce David, Christmas: a candid history, University of California Press, 2007, 0-520-25104-0, pp. 68–79. When Puritans outlawed Christmas in England in December 1647 the crowd brought out footballs as a symbol of festive misrule.http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/newsandevents/pressreleases/ne1000000086166/ 25 August 2023 17 December 2003 Historian Reveals that Cromwellian Christmas Football Rebels Ran Riot University of Warwick 28 September 2020 https://web.archive.org/web/20200928090437/https://warwick.ac.uk/newsandevents/pressreleases/ne1000000086166/ live The Orkney Christmas Day Ba' tradition continues.https://www.orkney.com/events/christmas-day-ba Christmas Day Ba' 2023 In the former top tear of English football, home and away Christmas Day and Boxing Day double headers were often played guaranteeing football clubs large crowds by allowing many working people their only chance to watch a game.https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/z4y847h Why football at Christmas is a very British tradition Champions Preston North End faced Aston Villa on Christmas Day 1889https://www.90min.com/posts/the-last-time-football-was-played-christmas-day-england The Last Time Football Was Played on Christmas Day in England 25 December 2020 and the last Christmas Day fixture was in 1965 in England, Blackpool beating Blackburn Rovers 4–2. Table y BLP Notes References Roy Calley Blackpool: A Complete Record 1887–1992 Breedon Books Sport 1992 1-873626-07-X Blackpool F.C. Category:Blackpool F.C. seasons