Get used to that smile. The incredible ride continues for Ian Holloway’s Blackpool. When they won the promotion playoff last season, they got a lot of sympathy from neutrals. “How nice for them”, many of us thought. Then we started thinking about what would happen when Holloway’s attacking style met the counter-attacking speed of Premier League opposition. We saw 4-0 scorelines dancing in our heads for their league opener, but shame on us, we saw them going the other way. Granted, this Wigan side is not Champions League material, and I’m not claiming that the Pool won’t get a thumping or four this season. But when the final toot-toot was heard on this match, and the fulltime scoreline came up – Wigan nil, Blackpool four – it was something very special, and a warning that this Cinderella team isn’t happy just to be nominated.

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