1990–91_Blackpool_F.C._season

1990–91 Blackpool F.C. season

1990–91 Blackpool F.C. season

Blackpool F.C. 1990–91 football season

The 1990–91 season was Blackpool F.C.'s 83rd season (80th consecutive) in the Football League. They competed in the 24-team Division Four, then the fourth tier of English football. They finished fifth, missing out on automatic promotion by one point after a final-day defeat at Walsall, and made the play-offs; however, they lost in the final, against Torquay United, in a penalty-shootout after the game finished 2–2 after normal and extra time.

Quick Facts Owner and chairman, Manager ...

Graham Carr was replaced as manager by his assistant, Billy Ayre, on 30 November. Between 10 November and the end of the season, the club went on to record thirteen consecutive League wins at Bloomfield Road.

Dave Bamber was the club's top scorer, with seventeen league goals.

Results

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Table

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Notes:
  1. Torquay United won the play-offs and were promoted.

Play-offs

Semi-finals

Blackpool and Scunthorpe United met in the two-legged semi-finals of the play-offs. The first leg, played at Glanford Park on 19 May, finished 1–1. Three days later, Blackpool won the return leg at Bloomfield Road 2–0, courtesy of a double by David Eyres, and took the tie 3–2 on aggregate. Blackpool's celebration of reaching Wembley since the famous "Matthews Final" thirty-eight years earlier was overshadowed by the news that their former player and manager Stan Mortensen, who scored a hat-trick in that final, had died earlier in the day, at the age of 69.

Final

On 31 May, Blackpool met Torquay United in the final at Wembley. The game finished 2–2 after normal time and extra time. It went to a penalty-shootout, which Torquay won 5–4. Dave Bamber missed the decisive penalty, the second of sudden death, putting it well wide of Gareth Howells' left-hand post.

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Attendance: 21,615

Blackpool

010McIlhargey
020Davies downward-facing red arrow (for Sinclair)
030Wright
040Groves
050Horner
060Gore
070Rodwell
080Taylor
090Bamber
100Garner (c)
110Eyres

Substitutes:

120Sinclair upward-facing green arrow (for Davies)
140Richards

Manager:
Billy Ayre

Torquay United

010Howells
020Curran
030P. Holmes
040Saunders
050Elliott
060Joyce
070Myers
080M. Holmes
090Evans
100Edwards
110Loram

Substitutes:

120Hall
140

Manager:
John Impey

Player statistics

Appearances

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Players used: 24

Goals

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Total goals scored: 84 (plus four own-goals)


Notes

  1. [1]
    After extra time; Darlington won on away-goals rule
  2. [2]
    Billy Ayre's first game as manager
  3. [3]
    Played at Wembley Stadium, London
  4. [4]
    After extra time; Torquay won 5-4 on penalties
  5. [5]
    Ever-present

References

  • Calley, Roy (1992). Blackpool: A Complete Record 1887-1992. Breedon Books Sport. ISBN 1-873626-07-X.
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