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Team Focus: Blackpool's Worrying Slide Towards League One

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Team Focus: Blackpool's Worrying Slide Towards League One On 14 September, they were perched on top of the pile. With five wins and a draw from their first six games, there were already murmurs of a potential return to the Premier League.Now, with four matches to go, Blackpool are staring down the barrel of a gun with League One inscribed on it. Two points...

League Focus: The Battle to Beat the Drop in the Championship

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League Focus: The Battle to Beat the Drop in the Championship The picture is about to become a lot clearer. Two points separate the bottom four teams in the Championship, four points the bottom five and nine points the bottom six, but with eight games to play in March this is moving month.Being the Championship, there is always bound to be a major twist betwee...

Player Focus: Tom Ince - A Wanted Man

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Player Focus: Tom Ince - A Wanted Man It may be easier to rattle off the clubs that haven't supposedly taken up an interest in Tom Ince since the young winger handed in a transfer at Blackpool than those that have. The 21-year old has been tipped with a return to Liverpool, where he spent his formative footballing years, the glitz and g...

Charlie Adam’s 2010/11 Season Under Review

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Charlie Adam’s 2010/11 Season Under Review Charlie Adam’s debut season in England’s top-flight was one to remember. With 12 goals and 8 assists for Blackpool, the playmaker found himself short listed for the PFA Player of the Year with a series of stand-out performances for Ian Holloway’s side, as their attacking approach p...

United Send Blackpool Back to the Championship

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United Send Blackpool Back to the Championship  In their last day bid for Premier League survival, Blackpool put up a real fight at Old Trafford but in the end, United overwhelmed Ian Holloway’s spirited side to send them down to the Championship yesterday afternoon.United took the lead through Ji-Sung Park on 21 minutes but a Charlie Adam ...

Survival Sunday Lowdown Continued

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Survival Sunday Lowdown Continued With the time creeping closer to 4pm, we continue our look at those relegation-threatened clubs near the foot of the Premier League. Yesterday saw us run the rule over Wolves and Blackburn, leaving Wigan, Blackpool and Birmingham to come under the microscope, in what has proved to be the most tensio...