Blackpool

[PieEater]

Strange that you post about them conceding goals on the day they score 4.

[siforest65]

Picture of their pitch pre-match today (hope this works)

[Winston Smith]

Strange that you post about them conceding goals on the day they score 4.

why strange?

just seems far less significant to me

[Sutekh]

Strange that you post about them conceding goals on the day they score 4.

And let in 4

[TFF]

Big anti Oyston protest planned for Saturday, around a statue of club legend Stan Mortensen. A statue paid for by fans.

So Oyston took the statue down

https://www.facebook.com/tangerineknigh ... 4161742588

whatacunt

[Geekins]

Why's he being like this exactly?

[Winston Smith]

Why's he being like this exactly?

For the lolz

[TBM]

Big anti Oyston protest planned for Saturday, around a statue of club legend Stan Mortensen. A statue paid for by fans.

So Oyston took the statue down

https://www.facebook.com/tangerineknigh ... 4161742588

whatacunt

Surely they've done it to protect it?

[TFF]

No, he's done it because he's an iconoclast

[leon]

No, he's done it because he's an iconoclast

finally someone uses iconoclast in the correct manner.

[leww_rfc]

conceded 60 league goals so far, on track to concede 89 at that pace.

what chance a post relegation collapse in the last handfull of games helping to push that number to 3 figures

Surpassed that 89, 91 conceded with 1 game to go.

[Lacoste]

Comedian Jason Manford has 'apologised' for describing Blackpool owner Karl Oyston as an odious ferret after being handed a solicitors letter from Oyston.

Cheeky Manford has responded to the letter to say that he is sorry...to ferrets and ferret owners for comparing them to the Seasiders' owner.

Oyston has enraged Blackpool fans over his running of the club in recent seasons, with the Seasiders relegated to the third tier League One this term. Just last week, a Blackpool fan was forced to make a public apology and pay £20,000 in damages after criticising him on social media. The money was eventually raised by football fans through crowd funding.

Manford's original tweet, in which he labelled Oyston as an "odious ferret" was sent yesterday.

Posting on his Facebook page, the former One Show host Manford wrote:

"Dear fans,

After my earlier post regarding calling Karl Oyston of Blackpool FC an 'odious ferret' I've been contacted by my lawyers.

So I would like to retract my comments, they were unfair and misjudged and I can only apologise for letting myself, my family and my fans down. The last thing I want is to cause upset and to be taken to court over a silly comment.

I can only hope that my apology is accepted by ferrets and ferret owners everywhere. They of course make lovely, loving, loyal pets & are easily trainable & entertaining. To compare them to that total bell*** was an insult to ferrets and for that I am sorry. To be even be mentioned in the same sentence to that knuckle-dragging slimy c********* was a miscalculation on my part.

Regards,

Jason Manford"

[Royal Rother]

All a bit obvious but worth a

[Sutekh]

I see that Blackpool fans haven't quite got the hang of the idea of the end of season pitch invasion...

By the way, where were they with their moaning about the chairman when they got to the PL ?

[Royal Rother]

They didn't know at that point that the parachute payments would be used to pay themselves massive salaries and create loans to prop up other family businesses.

[Winston Smith]

Their abandoned match is going down as a 0-0.

wtf?

[TBM]

Their abandoned match is going down as a 0-0.

wtf?

Well that was the score at the time

Bit harsh to punish either club (i'm talking players/staff here) for something that wasn't their doing.

I wonder what would have happened, though, if it involved a team going for promotion

[Winston Smith]

Their abandoned match is going down as a 0-0.

wtf?

Well that was the score at the time

Bit harsh to punish either club (i'm talking players/staff here) for something that wasn't their doing.

Couldn't disagree more. It was 100% Blackpools fault (the fans are part of the club).

At least fans now know that if their club need 1 point in the final match to secure promotion/a play off spot/safety from relegation they can just invade the pitch and refuse to leave and that point is theirs.

[TBM]

Their abandoned match is going down as a 0-0.

wtf?

Well that was the score at the time

Bit harsh to punish either club (i'm talking players/staff here) for something that wasn't their doing.

Couldn't disagree more. It was 100% Blackpools fault (the fans are part of the club).

At least fans now know that if their club need 1 point in the final match to secure promotion/a play off spot/safety from relegation they can just invade the pitch and refuse to leave and that point is theirs.

I don't think that would happen. It was a nothing game that did nothing to the standings.

[Winston Smith]

Potential league standings should make no difference. Should be a flat rule for everyone.

can see other clubs citing this as a precedent in the future if their game is called off for whatever reason.