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Blackpool v Newcastle United match preview.

April 23rd, 2011 | 58 Comments |

A day at the seaside!
A day at the seaside!
As Newcastle travel to the seaside to face Blackpool this afternoon, I suppose that the big question for Blackpool will be can they make a return to their scintillating early season form before it’s too late, and they find themselves consigned back to the Championship?

Of course, the Seasiders beat the Magpies 0-2 in the last encounter at St James’s Park, with Charlie Adam, DJ Campbell and Matt Gilks shining for the vistors in that game. As suggested above however, they have been something of a different proposition recently. In this respect they haven’t been alone, with teams like Hull City and a few other sides who have been promoted to top division, ie ‘surprise packages’ in the first part of the season, and freefallers in the second. They have been defeated in five of their last six games, with their only point coming against Blackburn with two penalties for their most renowned player of the moment, Charlie Adam. (more…)