The Blackpool Sentinel
Match17 Apr 2027
10 matches without a win for Blackpool
The run now stands at 10, and the questions being asked around Blackpool are no longer polite ones.
The dugout19 Apr 2027
Jonathan Hogg says Blackpool went back on their word
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Player ratings19 Apr 2027
Josh Bowler runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 28. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad19 Apr 2027
Tempers go at Blackpool
Leighton Clarkson 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.
Squad19 Apr 2027
Karoy Anderson 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.
Squad19 Apr 2027
Blackpool lose Henry Wright
19 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Match17 Apr 2027
Blackpool and Wycombe Wanderers take a point apiece
It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
The dugout19 Apr 2027
Steven Dixon: “We have to be better”
“It is not the end of the world and it is not good enough. Both of those are true.” The manager, after a 1‑1 draw, said the honest thing and then went to say it again inside.
Looking ahead19 Apr 2027
The leaders are next for Blackpool
Stockport County top the table and they are coming into view. Nothing to lose, which is what every manager says before losing.
In brief
- The dugout Blackpool pick somebody else ahead of Ellis Iandolo
- Looking ahead Fraser Horsfall faces his old club
- The dugout Ashley Fletcher gets picked when it counts