WHAT HAPPENED IN and AROUND 1960?

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I have done this game before; the 1960 European Cup Final, as it was known then, took place on May 18th. It is now known as the Champions League Final. Read the link, there's some nice history in there, including the result!

Meanwhile the various lower English Football League play offs are starting. Imagine just relying on the season's division positions deciding promotion and relegation as happened in the old days!

It is the League One Play off Semi-final First Leg: Oxford United v Blackpool today and Second Leg on the 21st.

Oxford United came 6th in the division with 74 pts GD +21 goals

Blackpool came 3rd in the regular division with 80pts +28 goals 

The other semi-final is to be played at Lincoln's Sincil Bank, on the 19th against Sunderland who came 4th in the division with 77 pts +28 goals.

Lincoln City came 5th with 77 pts +19 goals. Their other leg is on 22nd. The reward for the winner-promotion. Final on the 30th May @3pm.

This evening (18th) is also the League Two Play off S-F First Leg: 

Newport County (5th) v Forest Green (6th), Second Leg on the 23rd. 

The other tie is:

Tranmere Rovers (7th) and Morecambe (4th) who meet on the 20th and on the 23rd. Aim? to get to League One.

Final 31st May at Wembley @ 3pm.

In 1960 Oxford United FC was known as Headington Utd, a club founded in 1893, a village team known locally as "the boys from over the hill". They played in the Southern League and were promoted to the Football League Fourth Division to replace Accrington Stanley who dropped out of the FL at the end of 1962-3.

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In the1960 season, Blackpool came 11th in the First Division. "Around" the Seasiders in that division at the time, were Preston NE and Fulham above them, with Leicester City and Arsenal below.  George Farm, Blackpool's Scottish goalie, went to Queen of the South FC, having played over 500 games for Blackpool. He played a further 100+ games there and then went into management in Scotland until 1974. Here he is at Wembley v Newcastle, sadly in a defeat in the 1951 Cup Final.

Forest Green Rovers were in the Gloucestershire Senior League.  Morecambe were at the top end of the Lancashire Combination League, eventually winning that League over the next two seasons. Tranmere Rovers were in Division Three but dropped down to Division 4 for the first time in 1961. 

Lincoln City were in the Second Tier in 1960/1 but by 1962/3 season they had dropped into Division 4 and came 11th in the 1963-4 season. 

Sunderland were in Division 2 for six years after a financial disaster! Newport County were midway in Division Three and relegated out of that in 1961/2.