The transfer window was a painful and protracted experience for Blackpool Football Club. Deals for players with whom they had been linked continually fell at the final hurdle or the mere rumours of certain tie ups alerted rival clubs, who invariably could offer more attractive terms and realistically a greater chance of playing in the…
Blackpool Football Club: Neil Critchley ruthlessly consigns Grayson era to history
The unexpected but game-changing onset of Covid-19 has made 2020 a year like no other. As schools cautiously head back into the unknown this autumn it feels as if we have already been through a year several times its normal length, with still a third of it to elapse. Events 'pre-pandemic', in other words before…
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…
Blackpool Football Club: The resignation of manager Bowyer the latest in a line of avoidable crises
The recent resignation of Blackpool manager Gary Bowyer is a huge blow to the club, but only the latest in a long line of negative headlines generated by the Oyston regime. To the uninitiated the raw data from Blackpool's dwindling, but still allegedly massaged attendance figures, would suggest that insufficient demand exists on the Fylde…
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