The Blackpool Sentinel
Squad29 Oct 2029
Jordan Brown damages knee ligaments — 76 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 76 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 ratings29 Oct 2029
Josh Bowler beats them one at a time
Successful dribbles: 34. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Market29 Oct 2029
Only the photograph left for Albie Morgan
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Albie Morgan will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Blackpool the goodbyes have quietly begun.
The dugout29 Oct 2029
Jan Gawarecki keeps the receipts
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Blackpool may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad29 Oct 2029
Luke O'Nien 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.
Squad29 Oct 2029
Words exchanged at Blackpool
Fraser Horsfall and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Match27 Oct 2029
A bad afternoon for Blackpool against AFC Wimbledon
0‑1 to AFC Wimbledon, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
The dugout29 Oct 2029
Jonathan Smith: “No excuses”
“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑1, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.
The dugout29 Oct 2029
Blackpool pick somebody else ahead of Conor Thomas
There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.
In brief
- Looking ahead Daniel James faces his old club
- Market No place for Freddie Leatherbarrow in the plan
- The dugout The manager makes an example of Diego Toma