Mighty Blackpool F.C.
Mighty Blackpool is a Sierra Leonean football club based in the capital Freetown. They play in the Sierra Leone National Premier League, the top football league in the country. Blackpool represent the West End of Freetown and their home games are played at the National Stadium in Freetown. The club was founded in 1923 under the name Socro United and they are the oldest and most successful football club in Sierra Leone, having won the Premier League fifteen times and the FA Cup four times. They have an intense rivalry with city rivals, East End Lions,. They changed their name to Mighty Blackpool in 1954 to show their admiration for the former Blackpool and England player, Sir Stanley Matthews.
Read more about Mighty Blackpool F.C.: History, Performance in CAF Competitions, Notable Former Players
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Plump bed bear up, and swelling like a cloud,
Tempting the two too modest; can
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The arms to hug you? Throw, throw
Yourselves into the mighty overflow
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The night with you in floods of down.”
—Robert Herrick (1591–1674)