400 of our diehard fans have travelled up to 300 miles or more for this game. Their fantastic efforts(for those doing the train with their engineering works), they have had to travel 90 minutes by coach from Preston to Blackpool has only compounded to the trek to the North West today. The Oystons have shown total disregard and comtempt for both Blackpool and Charlton fans by calling the game off so late in the day. It must have been dubious yesterday afternoon that they had a problem. Another case of dreadful owners having no regard for the fans.
A very sad anticlimax for the Blackpool fans' day of memorial for Jimmy Armfield as well. The most fitting way to pay respects to him on the day was for their team to come out and take on Charlton with everything they could muster in honour of a great man. For their fans to have to leave the stadium after the pre-match ceremony without a ball being kicked must have been awful. It is a shocking indictment in this day and age that some football clubs in a league only two tiers below the biggest money-spinning football machine on this planet cannot afford the basic facilities needed to keep their pitch in playable order when the weather gets bad. It's about time the FA got it's head out of its arse after a hundred years and put some funding and some standards in place to protect the Game and fans from rogue owners and the massive financial imbalance between the Premier League and the rest of English Football. A far better use of its wasted billion than the Wembley Stadium Vanity Project. NFL and monster truck rallies? Toss pots. We aren't talking about some regional non-league game here. This is third tier National League football. It is a disgrace that the third division in England in 2018 is regarded as beneath anybody's notice when it comes to the musty corridors of power at the FA or the corporate monolith of the Premier League.
According to attendances, League One is the 9th best in Europe. http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/42704713
jonkool Season Ticket Holder please log in to view this image please log in to view this image please log in to view this image please log in to view this image please log in to view this image please log in to view this image please log in to view this image please log in to view this image Posts: 9,116 8 hours ago Andyaddick likes this Quote please log in to view this image Post by jonkool on 8 hours ago Sorry Andy but we are talking about a club owned by the Oyston family not M Duchâtelet m8 **An apologist with a short memory**
What an utter dick head Jonkool is. As for the postponement, the pitch at Newport was far worse than Blackpool’s, yet that game went ahead ? At the very least the EFL should get together with both clubs & offer Charlton fans free admission for the rescheduled fixture. Without the paying fans - particularly the travelling fans - Football is nothing. PS - well done to Robinson for leading our players out to observe the Jimmy Armfield tribute
According to the Blackpool manager, at 11:15am on Saturday anyone looking at the pitch would have known the game was off. http://www.kentlive.news/sport/foot...-athletic-postponement-blackpool-boss-1132602 Why then was it not called off at midday or even earlier? Almost beyond belief too that a non-league team's match went ahead a few miles away, on a pitch that had coped with the weather. Blackpool Football Club don't come out of this with very much credit. Granted we've been there ourselves, until the Belgians came along and turned our shagged-out pitch into a shagged-on pitch.
