The Blackpool Sentinel
Market18 Jun 2035
Benjamin Palmer puts it in writing
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Blackpool, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad18 Jun 2035
Brian Okonkwo gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Brian Okonkwo has just signed for Blackpool, and for once the answer mattered.
Match16 Jun 2035
4 matches without a win for Blackpool
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Blackpool are no longer polite ones.
Squad18 Jun 2035
Tempers go at Blackpool
Abdoullah Ba 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.
Market18 Jun 2035
Business is business: Nathan Wright goes
Leyton Orient paid $64.0K and Blackpool took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.
Squad18 Jun 2035
Words at Blackpool training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mattia Tonetto 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 ratings18 Jun 2035
A masterclass from Tom Bloxham
Marked 8.05 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Squad18 Jun 2035
James Cunningham 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.
Boardroom18 Jun 2035
Wages eat 106% of everything Blackpool earn
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
In brief
- Match Blackpool share the spoils with Chesterfield
- Market DJ Bernard is free to find somewhere else
- Market The Tom Bloxham question follows Blackpool around