Blackpool 0 Birmingham City 0 - a result that technically stopped the rot but did nothing to suggest Blackpool will get out of relegation trouble, nor that Michael Appleton is the right man for the job. It is only eight months since a then Neil Critchley's Blackpool put six past Birmingham - two results and…
Relegation or Championship survival, a significant churn of players awaits at Blackpool FC
The four-week enforced cessation of Premier League and Championship fixtures has allowed Blackpool to step back from an appalling run of defeats, several of which were fully merited. It is indeed without doubt that the World Cup came at the right time, with on and off the field issues at Bloomfield Road in need of…
What Blackpool F.C. must do to retain their Championship status
A topsy turvy first three months to Blackpool's season in the second tier of English football has failed to give any definitive indicators as to whether the club will survive in the Championship. A more volatile set of results in the club's recent history, or even in my 39 years of watching the club, does…
Mired in mediocrity the EFL Championship affords little preparation for the culture shock awaiting those promoted from it
The English Football League(EFL) Championship: highly competitive, much of a muchness, or of such a poor standard that it is merely rearing the next battery farmed, low quality fodder for next season's Premier League? Notwithstanding the enforced Covid-19 break the Championship season is roughly at the mid-April stage, a point where the league table has…
Nathan Jones to rid Stoke City’s squad of its ‘final payday’ mentality
Far removed from his relative fastness at Kenilworth Road former Luton Town manager Nathan Jones has in the first few weeks of taking the Stoke City hotseat been left in no doubt of the enormity of the task ahead. Chastening home defeats to Shrewsbury, in the F A Cup, and Preston North End bookended a…
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