paulhanley

We've beaten them comfortably more than they've beaten us over the years to be fair. In the last 30 years we've had trouble beating them at Bloomfield Road but never at home.

Persuaded my Dad to go. Been to about 5 this season after having had a season ticket for many a long year. Reckon around 20000 Bolton fans and about 4000 from Blackpool.

This whole episode with Seasider sums up Bolton's relationship with Blackpool and it doesn't reflect well on them. It ought to be just another of the Lancashire derbies - on a level with PNE and Burnley for instance. However they make it something different. As I've said before its all about them trying to link back to a time when English football took them a bit more seriously. I hope we hammer them on Saturday. We won't of course. We generally make a meal of derby games like this and the fact these matches usually mean more to the Blackpools, Wigans, Burys of this world transmits from fans to players and leads to poorer results than ought to be the case for us. This time it means a lot to us because of the play offs. All 3 recent games v Blackpool have been high scoring, I think this will be the same and I'll go for Bolton 3 Blackpool 2 with a 23,500 gate.

Bollocks. Get off.

I remember the game in 78 and if Blackpool brought 1000 with them it must have been only just. In 85/86 it was an Easter Monday game. I distinctly remember a large proportion of their support shuffling on to the Embankment a good 15 mins after kick off leaving everyone to draw the conclusion they'd rather walk down Manny Road when Bolton fans were in the ground. They brought a good 2500 with them on a night match in 86/87 but I don't remember any trouble.

Did we not play these every year from 1974-1978, then in 1986 (twice, three times if you include a Sherpa Van game), 1988, 1989 in the Sherpa Van and league and then 1992? Did we not also play them in 2010 at the Reebok? By my reckoning that's 10 league games and 2 cup games at Bolton for Blackpool since the Kevin Olsson incident in August 1974. Did they on any of those occasions carry out any of these blood curdling threats?

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Yeah, sorry it was 81/2. The season we started so poorly that it felt like we'd be relegated by Xmas. After 11 games, won 2 drawn 0 lost 9. Strangely, one of the wins was a very, very rare league success at the Baseball Ground. Derby has never been a happy hunting ground for Bolton in the league at least.

Anybody remember Chris Thompson's dramatic late goal against Derby in the second last game of the season in 82/3? Set us up for the last game against Sheff Weds, which we also won. Ended up staying up against the odds. One of the main things I remember about that night v Derby was that the Manny Road South terrace being full of bikers, heavy metal types and a scattering of punks with mohicans. The celebration in the terrace after each Bolton goal were absolutely wild.

I'd probably go for Wheater and hope he's not rusty. Don't rate Mills at all and Blackpool are the type of side who'll find him out. Was more convinced with Ream in the Prem than the Championship.

Its always the same with these bell-ends. I am from Bolton, therefore I am a murderer in their eyes. With the exception of a few who will have known or are related to the deceased it's fake grief. In large part this comes down to the fact that they spent 29 years in the lower divisions from 1978 to 2007. Subconsciously they feel the 1974 incident is a connection to a long ago day when English football took Blackpool a bit more seriously. They look up to Bolton. They wish they were more like Bolton. Deep down, they know they're chicken shit. If they stop us getting in to the play offs on Saturday, they'll celebrate wildly - which will emphatically show that they are chicken shit in the Bury category. League One is calling. It's not going to be this year, it might not even be next - but its a magnetic draw on Blackpool and when it does, normal service will have been resumed.

If you'd offered me this scenario before kick off today I'd have taken it. Going to Cardiff and getting draw with depleted ranks and a poor away record is no mean feat. The tinpot tangerine shit will be girding themselves to spoil it for us next week, so it won't be easy.

Yep. Fuck em.

Yep. Subject of hot debate in South Wales ever since. Swansea taunt, Cardiff claim it wasn't their main firm.

Probably, yes. Though the need would be a little less if normal service is ever resumed with Stuart Holden.

Often wonder if history would have worked out different at Burnden had the superstore never been built. The board might have chosen to invest in the old ground rather than move to Horwich. Not sure what impact either way that would have had on life since.

Fuck em.

There's Bury, Wigan, Tranmere etc. However there's something uniquely tin pot about Blackpool.

You didn't cope at Burnden. You never coped. "Shopping Mall" or pre-"Shopping Mall".

Boxing Day 1978 at Blackpool would have to come in to the equation in any discussion about huge Bolton away followings in the 70s.

Are you still here you delusional fuckwit? I look forward to normal service being resumed in future years with Bolton being one or more divisions above Blackpool (as with 1978-1985 or 1993 to 2010). There was silence from Blackpool during each of those years.

Hughie Currant, Dennis Pee Cock...... I'll get my coat.

Andy Coleslaw

Trevor Cherry, Michael Appleton, Pat Rice, Tony Curry,