The Blackpool Sentinel
Squad21 Sep 2026
Albie Morgan damages knee ligaments — 69 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 69 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.
Match16 Sep 2026
Tom Bloxham sends Blackpool through
Cup ties wait for somebody to seize them, and Tom Bloxham obliged against Crewe Alexandra. 1‑0 on the night, and the name in the next round’s hat is Blackpool.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Karoy Anderson runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 22. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad21 Sep 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.
Match19 Sep 2026
A bad afternoon for Blackpool against Northampton Town
1‑2 to Northampton Town, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
The terraces21 Sep 2026
The crowd has taken to Tom Bloxham
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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Bailey Peacock-Farrell 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.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
CJ Hamilton was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.26. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Words at Blackpool training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. James Husband 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.
In brief
- Player ratings One of those days for Tom Bloxham
- Player ratings Ashley Fletcher ran the game
- The terraces The press cannot get enough of Franco Ravizzoli