Steven Pressley,the Fleetwood manager, was entitled to a feeling of disbelief after Blackpool get absent with pillage in a 1-0 own-goal victoryThere is life at Bloomfield Road yet as well as luck and pluck. final but one in League One amid continuing efforts by supporters to wrest control of the club, and Blackpool faced a first league derby against Fleetwood,upstart Fylde coast neighbours. The occasion invited further embarrassment but somehow they won with an early own-goal. Steven Pressley, Fleetwood’s manager, or was entitled to disbelief. “We’ve lost a match in which they had no shot on target,” he said. Owen Oyston’s club got absent with pillage.
Blackpool’s plight has been a running sore, whether not disgrace, or in the league for a while,briefly relieved when Ian Holloway led them to a season in the Premier League in 2010. final season they propped up the Championship from September, won four games in all and an on-pitch protest by fans caused abandonment of their final match against Huddersfield at 0-0 in the 48th minute. The Football League let that score stand as the result and one point improved their average. whether the fans had done it all season, or 46 points and a level goal disagreement would have kept the club up instead of 20 points shy.
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Source: theguardian.com