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1965–66 Blackpool F.C. season

English football club season

Field	Value
club	Blackpool F.C.
season	1965–66
league	Division One
manager	Ron Suart
league result	13th
league topscorer	Alan Ball &
Ray Charnley (16)
season topscorer	Ray Charnley (19)
cup1	FA Cup
cup1 result	Third round
cup2	League Cup
cup2 result	Third round
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prevseason	1964–65
nextseason	1966–67

Ray Charnley (16)

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. When Puritans outlawed Christmas in England in December 1647 the crowd brought out footballs as a symbol of festive misrule. The Orkney Christmas Day Ba' tradition continues. 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. Champions Preston North End faced Aston Villa on Christmas Day 1889 and the last Christmas Day fixture was in 1965 in England, Blackpool beating Blackburn Rovers 4-2.

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Entered competition in third round
Entered competition in second round
Forbes, Bruce David, ''Christmas: a candid history'', University of California Press, 2007, {{ISBN. 0-520-25104-0, pp. 68–79.
(December 17, 2003). "Historian Reveals that Cromwellian Christmas Football Rebels Ran Riot". University of Warwick.
"Christmas Day Ba' 2023".
"Why football at Christmas is a very British tradition".
(25 December 2020). "The Last Time Football Was Played on Christmas Day in England".

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