The Blackpool Sentinel
Market10 Aug 2026
Blackpool say no — this time
The offer from Burnley for Dale Taylor was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Leighton Clarkson signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Leighton Clarkson commits to Blackpool for another 4 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Leighton Clarkson in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Blackpool this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad10 Aug 2026
James Husband 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Leighton Clarkson 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Paul Cunningham joins the Blackpool first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Paul Cunningham is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
In brief
- Market Mark Atkinson steps up from the Blackpool academy
- Market Blackpool promote Richard Clark from within