The Fall and The Further Fall of Blackpool Football Club

On 22nd February 2011 Blackpool Football Club were in 12th Place in the English Premier League. During their first season in the new English Premier League they did the double over Liverpool, they collected one win and one draw with Tottenham Hotspurs. They had taken the lead in both games against Manchester United. They had been the first team to beat Sunderland at home. 

Sadly they were relegated by ONE POINT at the end of the 2010 - 2011 season. They returned to the Championship for the 2011 - 2012 season. A season which culminated in a Wembley Playoff appearance against West Ham. Sadly they lost this game 2 v1 despite being the better team. This represented the last time Blackpool would contend for Premiership return status. For what followed was a classic fall from grace. In the 2012 - 2013 and 2013 - 2014 seasons they were very lucky to escape relegation.  

Then it got worse ... they began the 2014 - 2015 season with only EIGHT professional players. So began their worst start to any season ... they started bottom and remain bottom as of 8th March 2015. They are now guaranteed to be relegated to third tier English football. Which represents a return back to whence they came prior to the miraculous climb from the old English Football League to the TOP of the Premier League (They were top after their 4 v 0 win against Wigan on the opening day of the 2010 - 2011 season).

Some would say Blackpool Football Club are CURSED. With all the earnings gained from Premier League status (Around 110 Million Pounds) they should now be in a comfortable position. They are anything but comfortable ... 

The little thing that not many people know about, or don't remember, is the fact that the land which Blackpool Football Club is built on is old GYPSY LAND. It was said in the 1970's that the land had been cursed. It did indeed appear so with the lousy progress the club was making. In the 1980's my late mentor Paula Paradaema was called in to break the curse. It appeared to have worked as Blackpool were seen to experience the rise from applying for league re-election to the pinnacle of the Football League. Blackpool were flying ... 

Paula sadly died in June 2013 ...since then Blackpool Football Club began its true fall from grace ... it appears the curse has returned to the land on which the ground is built. Relegation to the new Second Division is now a certainty so in 2015 - 2016 its third tier football for the club. The way they have fallen it is a strong possibility they will be playing fourth tier football in the 2016 - 2017 season if the trend is not arrested.