The Blackpool Sentinel
Squad31 May 2027
Blackpool count the cost of losing Cameron McGeehan
52 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Squad31 May 2027
Ayoub Aleesami falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
The dugout31 May 2027
No hiding place for Andrés Rivera
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Andrés Rivera, and the manager let it.
The dugout31 May 2027
Leighton Clarkson knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Leighton Clarkson trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
The dugout31 May 2027
When it matters, Zac Ashworth plays
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
The dugout31 May 2027
A door opens for Grant Smith
He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.
In brief
- Market The Jordan Brown talk will not go away
- Market Blackpool put Andy Lyons up for sale
- Squad Good reports on Baily Cargill
- Squad Welcome back, Terry Bondo