The Blackpool Sentinel
Match6 Feb 2027
No mercy from Blackpool
Stevenage will want this one forgotten quickly: 4‑0, every duel lost, and a long ride home. Blackpool were ruthless in the way good sides are ruthless.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Niall Ennis takes the match ball home
3 goals in one afternoon from one man. The other players were also present, a witness confirmed.
Player ratings8 Feb 2027
Niall Ennis was on a different afternoon to everybody else
9.89. 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.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Niall Ennis stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Niall Ennis and Blackpool agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Words at Blackpool training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Chadi Riad 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.
Player ratings8 Feb 2027
Charlie Kelman was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.63. 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.
Transfer targets8 Feb 2027
Deadline beats Blackpool to Andy Cook
The clock did what Bradford City would not, and ended it. Supporters who watched the countdown will spend the next window doing it again.
Squad8 Feb 2027
A muscle injury sidelines Christopher Mitchell for 14 days
Nobody makes a documentary about a hamstring and everybody in the game fears one. Blackpool will be careful with the return date, because the second one is always worse than the first.
The dugout8 Feb 2027
A satisfied Daniel Parker
“The players deserve the credit. My job was easy today.” It was not, and everybody in the room knew it; after 4‑0, Daniel Parker could afford to be generous.
In brief
- The dugout The manager makes an example of Josh Bowler
- The dugout Silko Thomas left out for tactical reasons at Blackpool
- The dugout Dale Taylor gets picked when it counts