Football Season Review

Having won promotion to League One through the play-offs last spring, Blackpool were the bookies' favourites to be relegated from the division going into the new campaign. The Tangarines entered the season with a squad consisted mostly of players who failed at other League One clubs, but Gary Bowyer got his side to play an efficient brand of football from the word go and Blackpool even spent the early stages of the season inside the play-off places, with their home form being particularly impressive. Things started to turn for the worse in late October, as the Tangarinse went on a lengthy winless run that lasted all the way until late in the year and it was not until February that they really managed to stabilize and go on a bit of a run that sealed their survival in the league. Recurring injury problems that top scorer Kyle Vassell had certainly did not help, while another important striker missed the majority of the season in Mark Cullen, as Blackpool struggled to unlock defences and had to endure a nearly five-month run without a home win, which they ended in mid March, when they defeated Charlton. The football that they played early on and late in the season suggests that there is potential in this side, but it is common knowledge that their financial situation is not the best and there is currently no way to guess what their summer activity will be like and what their goal for next season will be.

Player of the Season: Clark Robertson