The 200% Pre-Season Previews: The Championship
With less than 48 hours to go, Rob Freeman interrupts the Premier League Previews to bring the first of three previews of the football league. In a break from tradition,...
Posts Tagged: "Blackpool"
Match Of The Past: Blackpool FC
We continue our series of archive videos of the clubs of the Football League Championship this morning with Blackpool. Amongst the giants of the immediate post-war era, Blackpool entered a...
Match of the Weekend 1 – The Championship Playoff Final: West Ham United 2 Blackpool 1
West Ham United are back in the Premier League, after Ricardo Vaz Te’s late strike gave them victory over a doggedBlackpoolside. In a match that inevitably gets linked with the...
The Oyston Family & Blackpool FC: Eleven Million Questions To Answer – At Least
Blackpool’s accession to the Premier League was, on the surface, one of the feel-good stories of 2010. A club with a tight wage budget had broken up from the bottom...
An Englishman In A Small Town: Paul Grech Meets Ben Perry Acton
We have something a little different for you today on Twohundredpercent, as Paul Grech meets Ben Perry Acton, a player that forsook the English game to pursue a career in...
How Literal Will The Premier League’s Survival Sunday Be?
In an August 2009 Radio 5 Live programme on the Premier League’s financial troubles, Supporters Direct Chief Executive Dave Boyle addressed the issue of the “chasm” between Premier League and...
Video Special: Six Great FA Cup Finals
It may have escaped your attention, but it is the FA Cup final on Saturday. Manchester City and Stoke City will take the pitch at Wembley on Saturday afternoon, with...
Match Of The Week 2: Fulham 3-0 Blackpool
Perhaps it was inevitable that it would come to this in the fullness of time. The worlds of football, celebrity and cloying sentimentality have been slowly moving towards each other...
A Rant Or Three
While I was ‘away’ at the Asian Cup, English football ‘personalities’ maintained their capacity to infuriate – through stinking hypocrisy as much as the usual pig ignorance. Brady Everybody on...
Why Blackpool Had To Be Fined For Fielding Their Reserves
In what may be seen as slightly surprising news, the FA Premier League fined Blackpool £25,000 for fielding an under-strength side. The slight surprise was that, in fining the Seasiders,...
Ian Holloway Should Put Olly Out To Pasture
Pretty much everyone in football must have an admiration for what Ian Holloway has achieved at Blackpool, even if it is only a sneaking admiration. I’ve advocated awarding Bournemouth’s Eddie...
Under-Strength Teams And The Twenty-Five Man Squad Rule
There can be little doubt that, for the moment at least, the Premier League is more competitive than it has been in recent years, with just six points seperating Bolton...
Match Of The Midweek: Blackpool 2-1 West Bromwich Albion
The early season is over now. The clocks have gone back, which means that there will be precious few matches that finish in daylight between now and next spring, and...
The Intrigue Surrounding Karl Oyston’s “Bankruptcy”
Blackpool Football Club’s first season in the top division of English football since 1971 has started reasonably well, but the last few months haven’t necessarily have gone quite as successfully...
Match Of The Week: Wigan Athletic 0-4 Blackpool
After all the pre-season optimism, a lot of scales fall from the eyes of football supporters by five o’clock on the opening day of the season. On Saturday afternoon, however,...
The Premier League 2010/11 Previews, 5 – Blackpool: Reasons To Be Cheerful
The first decade of the new century saw Blackpool take a most modern route from the basement of the Football League into the Premier League. A decade ago they were...
Match Of The Midweek 1: Nottingham Forest 3-4 Blackpool
It’s all back to The City Ground, then, for the second leg of the Championship play-off, and the people of Nottingham clearly have better thing to do than worry about...
Match Of The Week: Blackpool 2-1 Nottingham Forest
From up on the north-western coast of England has come one of the surprise stories of the season. Very few people would have anticipated Blackpool surging into the Championship play-off...
Match Of The Midweek: Blackpool 2-1 Newcastle United
Newcastle United have started this season in the Championship, but a long trip west to Blackpool proves to be a step too far with Newcastle showing some unwelcome old habits....
A Terrible Early Christmas Present
Ho ho ho. Twohundredpercent is off on its Christmas holidays tomorrow. The high excitement of waking up in the morning and seeing the back garden covered in snow, considerable amounts...