[Archived] Blackpool

[Majiball]

If you can name 25 then you should be able to play anyone from that 25. Blackpool players need rest just like Uniteds and you most definitely cannot have one rule for one team and another for another.

[cletus]

If ever they decided to make another movie along the lines on 'The Damned United' they could quite easily make it about Blackpool....& it`d be a thoroughly enjoyable film!

The storyline....

No hoper backwater football club employ maverick lower league manager who shoots from the lip & takes no prisoners!

Assembles ramshackle team of likewise no-hopers & dollopers.

Creates GREAT team spirit & starts rollercoaster ride of a season resulting in shock play-off final appearance!

Against all the odds, they win their biggest game in forty-odd years & get back into the big time.

Manager starts to upset the BIG BOYS of the league both on & off the pitch.

Manager then upsets the league bosses with his teams/outbursts/exploits.

Manager threatens to quit (probably several times) knowing it won`t be accepted

Manager starts to believe his own spin.

.....but one day, the managers notoriously difficult & tight chairman foolishly accepts one of the managers ill-thought-out offers of resignation & like a pack of cards everything starts to collapse in glorious view of all the people who`ve they`ve upset along the way.....resulting in manager losing everything.....job/credibility/family/friends.

The movie ends with sad scenes of lonely remorseful manager. His phone rings. He answers. It`s another under pressure chairman of lowly backwater has-been club offering him a life-line. "Come & manage my club" he says.

He`s back in the game!!!!! YES!!!

well, i`d go & watch it anyway......