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blackpool beat liverpool at anfeild 2.1. thats some result considering i expected them to finsh with the lowest points tally ever, mr hollaway i duff my cap to you :clap:

If thats not the paper headline tomorrow i will be upset, sir.

Ring up and tell them it!

Liverpool were shocking as well! Drastic as it sounds but i would be suprised if they finished near the relegation places!

Blackpool are living the dream. I lie the fact it shows it is possible for a smaller team to still do it with a bit of cash behind them, even if it is highly improbable. They'll be talking about today in the same way I talk about when we drew with Man U!

Liverpool on the other hand are living the nightmare. tehehehehehe.

Benitez got out at Liverpool at the right time. I feel sorry for Hodgson, as the players are mostly the shite that Benitez bought, but do not believe anyone from the boardroom who says that 'the club are going to have new owners very shortly.' Three months later you still have the Yanks in charge, and possibly you are going to be run by The Royal Bank of Scotland in the very near future.

Didn't the taxpayer bail out the RBS? Does that mean we could all own a bit of Liverpool soon. If we TEFers club together we could own Torres right toe nail. It might be prolific.

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I'd love to see those Scouse bastards relegated and self destruct. Lets see how the so called Scouse humour would hold up then. Hodgson did inherit a real pile of shite though.
Fair play to Ollie.   

If Liverpool were to be relegated that would be fantastic for English football. Aint gona happen though.

Cracking result for Blackpool. Fair play.

It's nice to see a team neding in "pool" winning at Anfield for once this season.

Until Shankly started managing Liverpool in the 60's, they were a mid-table Championship side, and I think Hicks is trying to take them back there.

If someone can do the same to Man Yoo, that would make my day.

Great to see one of the 'glory supporter' teams do badly.

I maintain my belief that you don't know what real football fandom is until you've watched your side get relegated :)

Great post!

Stat time - Blackpool have the highest number of away points in the PL with 9. Chelsea come next with 6.

Watching the extended highlights on Sky now, Blackpool look pretty decent - it's no fluke them doing well so far.

blackpool are showing exactly why we should always have that dream to make the prem as swindon fans.
small clubs can compete and do themselves proud in the top flight

Kind of makes us look twats for not giving him the managers job when he was practically begging for it.

said exactly that to my lad today.

He might have done a worse job with us than Blackpool. He might not. I'm happy with Wilson and I enjoyed last season more than any for many a year!

That said, getting Wilson was more luck than judgement wasn't it? Weren't we after the kit man from Southampton or something, if wed have taken him instead of Holloway we could easily have looked like twats! Unless that was a smokescreen.

You're think of Richard Money who was the Academy Director at Newcastle United when we offered him the job, broke down over money I think (compensation to Newcastle?). Then Wilson got sacked by Hartlepool and we snapped him up on the spot, so it was lucky timing but still good judgement.

Ian Holloway would be in the SPL if it wasn't for his coaching badges. Holloway took the Blackpool job because he was desperate to get back into the game. NOBODY would have anticipated what happened next.

Heck, Scunthorpe's physio became a decent manager.

Heck, Barcelona's former interpreter became a world class manager.

I thought I had by throwing my weight behind Holloway getting the job here before we got Wilson. But I just checked some old posts and that wasn't the case, apparently I thought he was a "fucking twat" and "the last person I'd want as manager".

Funny cos I think he's brill now.

I'm warming to Holloway because as a football manager he's maturing.

Don't get me wrong, I like a bit of light hearted banter in the game but I didn't want to be a supporter of the Ian Holloway Circus.

Now, he's really taking it seriously within all aspects of his job. I get the impression that the Premier League media don't like it because they wanted the stupid quotes.

Watching Sunday suplemment. The critics openly agreed about this when Blackpool lost. Saying, how he should be who he's known as, not all serious etc.

.... and it's ridiculous because of course Holloway is enjoying his time managing in the top flight! He just doesn't have to do a quote about badgers shagging or whatever it was to highlight this. They just want column inches.

My point exactly!

What would Blackpool fans rather have?! Premiership football or some funny joke week in week out? Honestly, at the moment they've got the best of both worlds! To be fair to Blackpool they're giving it a bloody good go!!!

Kudos to jonny for not just checking but fessing up to it. For the record, I don't know if I posted it, but I felt about the same, as much as anything because of the way he hawked himself about (turning up in the Town End without notifying the club etc) which just seemed wildly unprofessional. I strongly suspect it's more a case of "right man, right club, right time" with Blackpool and that it wouldn't have worked here, but hell's teeth he's doing a very good job there. Got them playing some nice stuff, sticking to the game they know they can play and refusing to take the relegation fodder tag lying down.

Feel sorry for Hodgson though, Benitez left him a poisoned chalice, a mix those who just aren't good enough and even those that are are thoroughly demoralised. And he can't do much to change it - simple fact is, Liverpool just don't have the resources to compete on a level playing field with the big clubs these days. You know, clubs like Blackpool, Wigan, Stoke, Northampton

The impressive thing about Blackpool is that it's not just the club that look out of place in the Premiership- a fair few of those players were playing in League One a few years back- Gary Taylor Fletcher never really impressed me when he was pottering around League One with Huddersfield and that a few years ago, but look at him, and them, now.

It give us all hope. And it's the hope that gets you in the end.

Ha, ha, just seen highlights on MOTD2. "And now Kryiagkos, playing up front as an out and out striker". Liverpool, at home, against supposed relegation fodder, so desperate they resort to Andy King's famous "Van Der Linden Option". How are the mighty fallen, indeed.

We could do with Van Der Lindon and Heywood upfront at the moment.

Holloway has really grown on me though, he's obviously getting a lot more coverage since he started challenging for promotion last season and the more I see of him the more I like. I also called Iain Dowie a fucking twat in the same post, I still stand by that but will happily admit I was wrong in the unlikely event of him stopping being a fucking twat.

Don't think you can blame Benitez for the poisoned chalice that is the Liverpool job, that lies solely with Hicks and Gillett. Though you do have to applaud their tenacity, who'd have thought you could buy a Premier League with just £50 in cash. It might not have worked out but they have got balls.

No I am not thinking of Money, buggered if I can remember the guys name but it doesn't really matter/

Hockaday?

didnt hull make a similar start last season? (or season before)

Embarassingly it must have been. I must have got Money, Hockaday and some other unknown person mixed up in my head.

Meh. Blackpool will still be relegated and Liverpool will nick 4th.

Blackpool may well go down but I doubt Liverpool will finish in the Champions League places.

Granted but Benitez didn't have to spend what he did on the players he did, he's responsible for the squad being a pair of saggy tits supported by the Gerrard/Torres wonderbra.