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Anybody going to bother to watch this?

yes, much rather watch this than champions league, not sure who i want to win, as much as i hate cardiff it would be funny watching there nutty fans scaring the shit out of the sky generation premier league fans.

or bankrupt south wales police trying.

Ha, ha, that's a great point KoT.

I have a good mate whos a Cardiff fan so for that reason alone I want them to win.

Despite the fact that a lot of their fans are utter wankers, Blackpool are a bit like Scunthorpe to me as a team....e.g. the are just a distant Norvern town who I have no connections with or dislike/like of.

I guess it depends whether you would prefer a day out at Blackpool or Cardiff next season ;)

(assuming we win next weekend of course)

Can you imagine that!?! For that alone it would be worth it.

If Blackpool went up and we, god forbid, don't... I imagine we'll get a tedious thread about how wrong our board were to dimiss Ian Holloway as a candidate when Mo Malpas left.

Blackpool for me. I have a slight dislike of Cardiff. I remember when they were small fry. Small crowds in the bottom tier of the football league. Then they suddenly became some imaginary big club with loads of fans. Half of them are arrogant and annoying. Would love to beat them next season. Blackpool is a fairy tale story. Would love them to win.

i'm gonna watch it.
want blackpool to win, and have backed them in a double with milan

Good post.

Truth. Their fans also changed from Loyalist to Nationalist at the same time.

They were massive fairweather fans, out for the big games.

Yep, remember the gloomy years of Cardiff City very well.

Our very own Steve White was a part of it but I doubt many of their "die hard" fans will remember this...

August 1996: 1st home game of the season vs. Northampton Town in the League Cup (1-0 win)

Attendance: 2,294

August 1996: 2nd home game of the season vs. Brighton in the League (1-0 win)

Attendance: 3,463

Clearly, they are a massive, massive club. Always have been and always will be.

Quality.

Blackpool for me. Easy as don't want to see a Welsh Team in the prem.  Plus I like Holloway.

Arsenal at Blackpool on a cold, winter night would be amusing.

Shame they sorted their ground out though... Used to be a dump.

Yes i remember sitting in the old wooden away stand...situated miles from the pitch.

I'll be watching, more often than not the playoff finals are some of the best games to watch. Prefer Blackpool to win as Cardiff are one of the many clubs that have spent money they can't afford chasing the PL and it shouldn't be rewarded. Plus Holloway is fucking ace, having him manage a PL team will be excellent entertainment.

Should be a good game and also a preview for next week, I want Blackpool to win.

I'm rooting for Blackpool. They were outstanding in the play offs and I like Holloway, mad as a box of frogs that he is!

Look at that fucking stadium....cant wait till this time next week.

hmmmm...noticed a fair few empty seats there  :hmmm:

That'll be the 20,000 seats that get given to "FA partners" then.

Hmm more empty seats then I thought there would be.

1-0 Chopra

Blackpool all the way for me;

 - Like Holloway a lot. Wanted him at Town before DW came on the radar. Holloway & Mourinho (not for his football) in the Prem next season might get me a bit more interested again.
 - Was very impressed, even pretty shocked, at how good Blackpool were at Forest in the 2nd leg.
 - Cardiff fans are filthy Welsh cunts who do not appreciate one bit being allowed to play in our league.

TANGERINES TANGERINES TANGERINES

Feck me that was a bit good.

Certainly was

It's a pretty open final...

Oh god, please don't start this shirt nonsense again

*Chortle*

I for one want the team in white to beat the team in blue this week and next.

2-1 sheepshaggers :(

Quality midfield play by Ledley.............fuck me 2-2!

2-2, this is ace!

Good game by the sounds of it.

3-2 Blackpool. Absolute madness!

Get in....great match.

Brilliant, Blackpool are quality, Let's hope they do it, Like us they are the underdogs, Blackpool & Swindon for promotion hopefully :D

Cracker. Look forward to the highlights.

Crazy.

the pitch played its part in that goal

Those two going head to head in a war of words would be the best thing since sliced bread. Especially as it would most likely end with Holloway being outdone on an intellectual level and resorting to smacking Mourinho one instead.

That was definitely not a dull 45 minutes. That is precisely why I love the play offs. Top drawer. What a peach of goal from Adam 8)

And the team who needlessly opted to wear white are ahead...has to be an omen :hmmm:

I don't think my heart could take a half like that next week - winning or losing and wherever I'm watching/listening/checking my phone.

It's the classic 'great game for the neutral' which generally means 'total nightmare' if you actually support either team ::)

Superb half - keep it up, 'Pool. What a fine side they appear to be - ball on the deck, good momentum, all comfortable on the ball in any area, good movement off the ball, accurate passing....    Cardiff? Cunts.

Also I heard on TalkSport that if they win today Blackpool are gonna build the last side of their ground before 2010/11 starts. Still won't be massive, but it'll be tidy.

Full time, Blackpool are promoted!

Great stuff from Blackpool. They were great in the last 20 minutes.

Describes STFC to a tee 8) Well deserved win. Hopefully we can put up a similar performance next week.

Fair play to the Latvian... Not so long ago they saw off Yeovil in the L1 Play-Off Final.

Good luck to them.

Well that was worth the watch, roll on next weekend.

Oh, it looks like Millwall fans will have the sun in their eyes next week.  :)

anyway watching holloway interview? fucking brilliant, hat off to the bloke

If I remember rightly, some people said they didn't want Holloway here. The bloke has done wonders.

They also need to finish their stadium!

fucking brilliant interview, fuck me i might start watching the premier league now with him it, top fucking bloke

Nah, just a rumour initiated by the 'Wall club shop to help shift a poor-selling bulk of Stone Island shades.

Yep, and I was one.  I stand by my thoughts, but fair play to the bloke and well done.

Yes, the board mainly. He has indeed done wonders at Blackpool but I suspect it's more a case of right man, right time, right club. It was hardly nailed on he was always going to do that on the basis of his track record was it? I'm still dead chuffed we got Danny

82,544 at Wembley today. Should've been a sell out... Damn empty corporate seats (which I would guess it the reason for that)

Which you could say about Danny. Don't get me wrong, Danny has also done wonders!

Listening to Ollie on the radio. Love this guy, even despite his dubious past.

I noticed when they went up and down the steps, there were loads of empty ones in the corporate area.

Even a few Bristol City fans like him now. Funny old game.

The commentator said both clubs had sold all their tickets and the empty seats were corporate and the like.

I don't understand it though, as there were big empty blocks which could easily have been passed on to the clubs without any segregation issues. Surely they would have known they wouldn't be using them so why not do something with them?

Would be good if the Football League could name and shame them, especially if a big company or two are responsible.

The M4 was a fucking nightmare coming back from the Bath direction at half nine this morning. I have never seen so many coaches and cars with scarves and flags.

Love it  :toocool:

We will do better...

There were empty seats in both ends but not many. It was mostly the corporate bits around the middle tier which were very sparsely populated, as wells as the bit behind the dugouts which was half-full at best.

It was an incredible game and the Blackpool fans around me were saying they couldn't take any more by half time! Blackpool seemed to tire a lot towards the end but their centre backs cleared everything that came their way. Good to see them go up.

Oh and Cardiff are a bunch of twats, running round on the tube singing about how much they hate England and it's full of shit. Get your own league then. Then maybe you might actually win something for a change?

Exactly.  They were quite happy to play at our National Stadium and no doubt would have loved England had they won!

Ah well - they had to pay to get out of our country on the way home :D

Against the general consensus, having previously lived in Cardiff for a fair few years, I would have liked to have seen them do it. 

Fair play to Blackpool though, that's one hell of an achievement.

They've got their own league, they just don't want to play in it. Cos they know Nefly Ceflyn Druids (or whatever they're called) would tear them a new one

Sky Sports News are going on and on about Blackpool's attendances, which is out of order.

Theyve earned their right to be in the top flight, and just like us they have overcome greater odds to do it and well done to them.

Its a sporting competition, not a money making competition.

Think you'll find it's all about money in the Premier League, or should that be called "The League of Greed"

I wonder if we or Millwall will do the decent thing and give the losers share of the money to the team that doesn't win, as discussed by Mr Fitton last week.

Apparently the final is worth around £400k to each team but there is an unwritten rule between the chairmen that said the winner shall give the whole share to the losing team because of the new £10mill payment for being part of the Championship next season.

Are you saying we get £10m if we go up?

That was the figure mentioned yes mate.

There is a higher level of payments for next season for each division.

Fuck me that is some incentive isn't it.

I think Mr Fitton mentioned that if we stay in this division we will get around £1mill in TV and sponsorship rights next season, compaired to around £400k now and if we go up then its £10mill compaired to around £2mill as it is now.

Was that on the radio?

Yeppers Si it was. The thing about the gentlemans agreement between chairmen though was on BBC Points West this week.

Although the L1 and L2 clubs don't like the new deal they felt obliged to accept it in the end,
because of the threat of Championship clubs breaking away.Pretty much a pistol being held
to the lower league clubs i'm afraid.

It's basically Phil "Kill me now for I am an enemy of football" Gartside's Premier League 2 plan by the back door