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The Blizzard: Blackpool 4-3 Bolton, 1953

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4.69.3K Ratings

🗓️ 24 August 2019

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

For our latest episode of Greatest Games, in association with The Blizzard, we’re looking back at that thrilling 1953 FA Cup final contested by Blackpool and Bolton: ‘The Stanley Matthews Final’. Joining us is Seb Stafford-Bloor, a writer for Football365 and Four Four Two magazine, as well as a content editor of Tifo Football.


This final was a hugely significant moment in British football history. As it was the first final to be broadcast live on the BBC, the match was watched by a huge, unprecedented audience from all over the country. It also took place around the time that football was just beginning to be considered as the true ‘game of the people’ and still remains the only final where a hat-trick was scored. Seb, Jonathan and Marcus sit down and recount the rudimentary tactics and goalkeeping errors that led this match to be one of the most thrilling cup finals ever played.


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0:00.0

Hello everyone and welcome to greatest games on football ramble daily in association with the Blizzard.

0:08.0

We finish the day where her majesty will finish her royal drive at the gates of her palace in Lothar.

0:20.0

My name is Marcus Bella Jonathan Wilson, SAP opposite me smiling away.

0:25.0

This time around we have Seb Stafford Blore editor, a content editor of T-Five Football Rights for Football 365 and 442.

0:33.0

Lovely to have you with us. Thank you very much. Now Seb you have picked a game which I think is the oldest game so far.

0:41.0

We will be one of the oldest games I would imagine that we will have on this series.

0:43.0

It is the 1953 FA Cup Final where Blackpool beat Boulton Wanderer's 4-3.

0:49.0

An absolute classic. The Stanley Matthews final is dubbed this game of course. Much to the bemusement I suppose of Stan Morderson who scored a hat trick in the final.

1:01.0

But why have you gone for this one so? I think Marcus it's such a big topic. I think if you sat three guys down around a table and asked them to talk about 53 Cup Final the conversation can go in so many different directions.

1:12.0

But it depends who, which three guys? I swear it's so big. You just so happen to be a Jonathan and I today Seb.

1:18.0

I think it's a, even if you're a casual football fan you know the 53 Cup Final as the Matthews final. You probably know about Stan Morderson's hat trick.

1:30.0

But then depending on your interest you can go deep into it and you can go on these offshoots into six months later and then getting humbled by Hungary at Wembley.

1:39.0

You can go back, you can explore the kind of the nature of English football at the time. But also the more you read and the more you find out about it, the more you realize that whilst superficially there are so many differences to see in the game then.

1:51.0

There are trends and themes within it which really persist to the current day, to the present day. And it's just, it's very rich. I'm not sure, I mean 4-3, it sounds like a better game than it really is I think.

2:03.0

I mean, even even excusing the caveats about sort of the footage. Obviously the first FA Cup Final with BBC broadcast. I'm not the biggest Kenneth Wilson home fan.

2:15.0

So take all of that. He's a shocking commenter. He produced a great line at a great moment, which is massively kind of inflated as reputation.

2:23.0

So you're really interesting. I've always imagined Kenneth Wilson home to have been 65 in maturity. So that's how you imagine him. He's 32-33 when he's covering this game.

2:35.0

And he's talking about the moments during the game where Matthews is dancing down the right wing and particularly during the last 15 minutes. And he's saying things like, oh right now, come on Stanley, what are you going to do here? He sounds like his dad.

2:46.0

Matthews, that's Matthews, 38 the time of the cast out now. And you're talking about a guy that's actually younger than I am now. And it's just interesting.

2:53.0

I have this visual image of, you know, quite an elderly gentleman and sort of, you know, not really the, you know, he goes to the final by talking about right, well, this full back, he came to the team a couple of weeks ago.

3:04.0

And it's very, it's a football commentator for people that don't really like or are interested in football. It's sort of your entry point for a lot of people.

3:12.0

But I think that's actually like, yeah, that is true. I think one of the, you know, you're absolutely right. There's an extraordinary number of trends coming together in this game.

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