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Post by loyalgull on May 22, 2010 16:43:43 GMT
blackpool winning today has got them a promotion prize of a 90 million pound jackpot,not so long ago we beat them in the fa cup,they say two years is a long time in football,this sure does prove it  |
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Post by Rags on May 22, 2010 17:23:32 GMT
blackpool winning today has got them a promotion prize of a 90 million pound jackpot,not so long ago we beat them in the fa cup,they say two years is a long time in football,this sure does prove it Your point is absolutely correct, but the reward is an estimated £90m over four years including parachute payments, minus what they have to spend on Premiership players. Still a lovely amount of dosh to have but I recall that a couple of years ago, when it was only £60m, Derby had spent it all before the end of their one, and relegation, season; so effectively before they had received the majority of it! I honestly hope for Blackpool fans that the club are not skint and/or in administration in five years time. I see no reason why they should be, but money can do funny things to a football club. |
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Post by loyalgull on May 22, 2010 17:46:53 GMT
blackpool winning today has got them a promotion prize of a 90 million pound jackpot,not so long ago we beat them in the fa cup,they say two years is a long time in football,this sure does prove it Your point is absolutely correct, but the reward is an estimated £90m over four years including parachute payments, minus what they have to spend on Premiership players. Still a lovely amount of dosh to have but I recall that a couple of years ago, when it was only £60m, Derby had spent it all before the end of their one, and relegation, season; so effectively before they had received the majority of it! I honestly hope for Blackpool fans that the club are not skint and/or in administration in five years time. I see no reason why they should be, but money can do funny things to a football club. i agree with you as well,hull and portsmouth are in serious trouble,but i give burnley credit,although the expected relegation happened they seemed to have wheeled and dealed within there means.Promotion to the premiership could be a disaster in disguise for blackpool |
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Post by Deleted on May 22, 2010 22:34:49 GMT
Just got home from Wembley - a marvellous spectacle: all-action in the first half; enthralling in the second. Deservedly won by Blackpool who - however they do next year - have turned out to be an excellent Championship side full of players who've down the rounds at that level. It was probably their midfield that won it: Southern (who has been hidden away at Blackpool for years), Vaughan and Adam. And isn't Holloway's success just the jam on the cream of Argyle's season?! Or should that be...
I imagine careful financial management must be the order of the day for Blackpool next season once they've taken the heaven-sent opportunity of being able to complete the rebuilding of Bloomfield Road. It's an adventure, isn't it?
I also suspect there couldn't have been too many others in the crowd today who had lived in both Preston and Swansea - something for me to keep quiet about in the circumstances - and the chant of "are you watching PNE?" was a reminder of how the Great Lancashire Revival is threatening to pass North End by. As for the Bluebirds, trouble did break out amongst their supporters afterwards. I believe they were mother and daughter.
And there was one t-shirt which made me smile: AVIAN FLU - 14,000 SWANS SLAUGHTERED. Ah, that South Wales humour...
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