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Up The Football League We Go
When We Win Promotion
This Is What We'll Sing
We Are The Blackpool
We Are The Blackpool
We Are Football Kings
We're poor - the fourth poorest borough in the country.
We've got proper haircuts - critical in these times of branded aesthetics.
And we're going up to ScudamoreWorld.
Were You Watching PNE? Were You Watching PNE?
Blackpool have the smallest budget of any team ever to have reached the Championship Play Offs for a place in the Casino.
At the beginning of the season, we were second favourites for relegation.
Ian Holloway, The Second Coming And Then Some, has a clause in his contract which rewards him if he keeps Blackpool in the Championship.
Slightly legally problematical with the Food Mall round the corner...
Seasider Seasider Seasider Seasider Seasider
People who have been watching this beautiful team for the last half century are unanimous in their assessment that this is the best it has been...
Better than Armfield and Suddaby and Suddick and Walsh and Horner and Gore and Ronson and I could get slightly tedious here...
We play 4-3-3 everywhere.
We win and make seven changes. Then with the match 0-0 at half-time, make three more changes and win 3-0.
We have won 8 of our last 10 matches - the defeat was at Championship Winners Newcastle and the Draw with Bristol City which ensured the Play Off place and was consequently a sweet sweet victory.
Chimchimoree Chimchimoree Chim Chim Cheroo, We Hate Those Bastards In Claret And Blue
In a race with Leicester and Swansea for the Play Off places, Holloway brought in out-of-favour strikers from...?
DJ Campbell from Leicester and Dobbie Dobbie from Swansea - and, in the example of universal energy that was tonight's 4-3 victory over PNE Reject Davies, DJ got 3 and Dobbie the other.
I mean...
...how fucking cool is that?
We play like Arsenal.
We had nigh on 70% possession away from home tonight.
And we're hard.
Friday - DJ arrested on the training ground in Blackpool and driven down to the Myre to be charged with a stabbing. Makes his way to Peterborough and scores the goal that took the Mighty Pool into the Play Off positions.
Oh! Fucking Joy!!!!!!!!!
Oh I Do Like To Be Beside The Seaside. Oh I Do Like To Be Beside The Sea. Oh I Do Like To Walk Along The Prom Prom Prom. Where The Pool Fans Sing Fuck Off West Brom, Fuck Off West Brom, Fuck Off West Brom, Fuck Off West Brom, Fuck Off West Brom, Fuck Off West Brom, Fuck Off West Brom, Fuck Off West Brom, Fuck Off West Brom...
When asked at the press conference (after defeating Forest for the third time this season) whether Blackpool could seriously consider ScudamoreWorld football, what with the poverty and the budget and the three stands and the assortment of criminals and the bumpy pitch an' all, The Goatied Deity graciously responded: "Have you been drinking my friend?"
And I have...
But, on a well selfish level, I might have worried that nearly two decades of dealing with markets and corruption ruining football might have destroyed that inner Reality of what this game can still, at times, mean.
I'm on a well big winning run of trades at the moment but nothing comes anywhere near the sheer ecstatic eruption that greeted DJ's first goal tonight.
LaLaLaLaLaaaaaaaaa
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LaLaLaLaLaaaaaaaaa
LaLaLaLaLaaaaaaaaa...
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