Quote Originally Posted by the other bob wilson View Post
Don’t think you have, there’s a Blackpool game from that season against Blackburn in which he scored four knocking about on You Tube and the commentator said he’d already scored three hat tricks. I think the game was played with about two months of the season left and Hatton was already on something like twenty two goals.
How nice to have a stats thread. That 77/78 season was a really strange one in Division 2. Blackpool spent most of the season around the top 6 and were in a comfortable 7th place after beating Hull 3-0 in mid March. However they then ended the season with just 5 draws and 6 defeats from their last 11 games. Even so with 5 games left they were still 9th but fell into the last relegation spot at season's end when City 'allowed' Orient a 1-0 win at Ninian Park so they could join us and six other teams on 38 points while Blackpool had 37.

Blackpool got their revenge about 32 years later I suppose.