Brett Ormerod leads charge for Blackpool’s cinderella men
Tuesday saw history made at Bloomfield Road. When Brett Ormerod stepped off can you wash a canada goose jacket in the washer the home bench to seal a 3-1 Premier League win against Tottenham he became the first player to have scored for Blackpool in all four divisions.
The 34-year-old described his goal as provoking “an unbelievably emotional moment”. Quite right, too. Ormerod click more, who slipped away to Southampton for a couple of seasons but could not resist returning to Blackpool, is emblematic of his side’s capacity to punch, elegantly, way above their collective weight.
Small wonder that Ian Holloway is so proud of a team virtually everyone tipped for an immediate return to the Championship but who now stand 12th, five points clear of the relegation zone with 11 games remaining.
If safety is still far from assured given the small spread of points across teams in the lower half of the table, Blackpool are within tantalising touching distance of a second season in the promised land. “I think we need another three wins,” says Holloway, whose most un-Premier League like club impose a £10,000-per-week wage ceiling and insist on all professionals washing articles of their own kit.
“What my lads are doing and the gaps they are bridging between this level and where they came from is bright blue canada goose jacket quite phenomenal,” said Blackpool’s manager. “We need canada goose coat – kensington a few more points but when buy canada goose jacket london you play from the back like we do, there will be times when you’ll buy canada goose jacket usa be caught out. I’m proud that we are brave enough to play that type of football, though. And I don’t think there is any player I’ve managed who I could be more proud of, or pleased with, than Brett Ormerod. I don’t think anyone will ever again achieve what he’s done.”
Far from patenting a new recipe for disaster Holloway’s potentially kamikaze 4-3-3 or 4-2-1-3 formation has not only breathed new, exciting life into England’s top division, but it has also proved surprisingly sophisticated.
As the manager pointed out, defeating a Tottenham side who won at Milan in the Champions League last week does not make Blackpool world-beaters, but it certainly places their recent run of six games without a win into a kinder context.
Before facing Spurs Holloway’s latterly often unlucky players had taken a solitary point from six games, but, as he said: canada goose coat 1000 bulbs led “It was not a disaster to lose five matches. We were not in crisis.”
Even so, neutrals mindful of the way recent newly promoted teams such as Hull City and Burnley have endured post-New Year dips following bright beginnings were mightily relieved by the vanquishing of Spurs.
The only downside was Charlie Adam’s 10th yellow card of the season, thereby dictating that Blackpool’s canada goose coat 1000 bulbs free canada goose coat 1000 bulbs led midfield string-puller is suspended for the next two games, away at struggling Wolves and home to Chelsea.
Happily for Holloway, almost every cloud comes silver-lined. In this case he has the gifted Andy Reid, signed from Sunderland last month at a moment when it appeared Adam could well be leaving, ready and waiting to deputise in a playmaking capacity.
“The Spurs result has set us up nicely for the canada goose coat 1000 bulbs led final push,” said Blackpool’s manager. “Some people said we wouldn’t buying cheap canada goose outlet jacket online even get 10 points this season but we’ve got 32 points – we’ve already won nine games. And beating one of those ‘unbelievable’ teams like Tottenham will give us tremendous confidence.”
