Dan Sassi

Central Defender - Free Agent
30 Sep 2026
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Marked for Dan Sassi

9 Edition

The Blackpool Sentinel

28 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad28 Sep 2026

A knee injury of the worst kind for Albie Morgan

61 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Blackpool lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Squad28 Sep 2026

Tempers go at Blackpool

Conor Townsend was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Squad28 Sep 2026

Words at Blackpool training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Oliver Casey is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Squad28 Sep 2026

Michael Ihiekwe gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Match26 Sep 2026

Blackpool draw a blank against Luton Town

The crowd waited for a goal that never came. Luton Town defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.

Market28 Sep 2026

Dan Sassi leaves for nothing

Contract settled, hands shaken, no fee changing hands. Dan Sassi leaves Blackpool the quiet way, and the wage bill breathes a little easier.

In brief

Back issues
4 Edition

The Blackpool Sentinel

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad24 Aug 2026

Albie Morgan damages knee ligaments — 103 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 103 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Player ratings24 Aug 2026

No sign of nerves from Karoy Anderson at 21 — 8.04

The hardest thing about being 21 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Karoy Anderson did not need any: 8.04, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.

Market24 Aug 2026

Dan Sassi puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Blackpool, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad24 Aug 2026

Conor Townsend in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Blackpool this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad24 Aug 2026

Words at Blackpool training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Leighton Clarkson is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

The terraces24 Aug 2026

The crowd has taken to Dale Taylor

At 22 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

Squad24 Aug 2026

The manager makes an example of James Husband

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Player ratings24 Aug 2026

George Honeyman runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 18. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Player ratings24 Aug 2026

A masterclass from Dale Taylor

Marked 8.01 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.

In brief

1 Edition

The Blackpool Sentinel

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad3 Aug 2026

Albie Morgan damages knee ligaments — 125 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 125 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Niall Ennis signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Niall Ennis and Blackpool agree another 4 years.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Tempers go at Blackpool

George Honeyman was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

In brief