[Football] Imagine going to Blackpool for no reason...

[Easy 10]

Forest Green FA Cup tie off amid FA investigation

Forest Green's FA Cup second-round tie with Blackpool is postponed because of an FA investigation into a Rovers player's eligibility.

www.bbc.co.uk

Forest Green's FA Cup second-round tie at Blackpool on Saturday has been postponed due to a Football Association investigation into League Two club Rovers.

A statement from Forest Green said they would "comply with the FA in their investigation" before updating fans.
It has not been confirmed what the FA are looking into, but Rovers owner Dale Vince was interviewed under caution earlier this year after traces of penguin were discovered in his vegan pies.

 

[essbee1]

Forest Green FA Cup tie off amid FA investigation

Forest Green's FA Cup second-round tie with Blackpool is postponed because of an FA investigation into a Rovers player's eligibility.

www.bbc.co.uk

Forest Green's FA Cup second-round tie at Blackpool on Saturday has been postponed due to a Football Association investigation into League Two club Rovers.

A statement from Forest Green said they would "comply with the FA in their investigation" before updating fans.
It has not been confirmed what the FA are looking into, but Rovers owner Dale Vince was interviewed under caution earlier this year after traces of penguin were discovered in his vegan pies.

I heard he was "p..p..p..picked up" by police for the penguin incident.

 

[jakarta]

Blackpool is one of the shittiest towns in the UK, any reason not to go is a good reason...

 

[Billy in Bristol]

Thought this was about Jensen Weir.

 

[A1X]

“Back to the station, lads…”

 

[Bry Nylon]

Imagine going to Blackpool for ANY reason.

*Shudder*

 

[Official Old Man]

I detest Blackpool. I have to visit 6 times a year on business and stay out of town, driving in for a few hours only before getting out again.

 

[A mex eyecan]

I detest Blackpool. I have to visit 6 times a year on business and stay out of town, driving in for a few hours only before getting out again.

that’s illuminating

 

[Official Old Man]

that’s illuminating

I go up once a year during the illuminations. They haven't changed for the past 20 years. Why people go every year to see the same lights beats me.

 

[HHGull]

 

[Berty23]

Blackpool is one of the shittiest towns in the UK, any reason not to go is a good reason...

It must be 7 or 8 years ago now but my mate’s national league north side got Blackpool away in the cup second round and my lad was mascot. Lost a tight match but then had a barnstorming night out. I can concur it is a complete and utter hole. One of my young daughters won a massive cuddly troll in an arcade machine though. Fun weekend. Grim town.

 

[Colonel Mustard]

Blackpool is one of the shittiest towns in the UK, any reason not to go is a good reason...

Snobbish. You should hear what some people think about Brighton.

 

[ManOfSussex]

Thought this was about Jensen Weir.

Thought this was about Bobby Moore and Jimmy Greaves going on the piss before a West Ham FA Cup game there 50 years ago.

 

[jakarta]

Snobbish. You should hear what some people think about Brighton.

I hold no brief for Brighton and hardly ever go into the place.

Blackpool however takes it to a new level of shittiness. Once off the Seafront it is more like Beirut crossed with Burnley.

 

[Me and my Monkey]

Moving away from seaside town bashing, who would take Forest Green's place should they find themselves disqualified?

 

[Cheshire Cat]

Moving away from seaside town bashing, who would take Forest Green's place should they find themselves disqualified?

Milton Keynes - a town with a great footballing history (excepting it is somebody else's)

 

[AZ Gull]

Moving away from seaside town bashing, who would take Forest Green's place should they find themselves disqualified?

If it's the team Forest Green beat (in a replay) in the first round, then Scarborough Athletic.

 

[hart's shirt]

Long before Athens in the Europa League, Blackpool away on a Tuesday night during the petrol crisis in 2000 was an event.

341 of us up there to witness an Albion away win. And getting home afterwards was interesting.

"Some had to nurse their vehicles home at 40mph with no radio or heating for the entire journey to conserve fuel. Others limped back on fumes with warning lights flashing from as far away as Wycombe.

Some did not make it. There were tales of Brighton supporting cars being left strewn across the country as they ran out of fuel, leaving fans to make the rest of the journey home by train the next day. They returned once the fuel shortage was over to collect their transport.

One supporter who abandoned his vehicle somewhere in the north of England left it there for 11 days, picking it up again on the way to the away game at York City..."

https://wearebrighton.com/albiondatabase/blackpool-away-tuesday-night-petrol-crisis/

 

[Easy 10]

Snobbish. You should hear what some people think about Brighton.

In fairness, Blackpool makes Brighton look like Monte Carlo.

 

[Me and my Monkey]

If it's the team Forest Green beat (in a replay) in the first round, then Scarborough Athletic.

Ooh, another seaside town!