Seasider's progress report.

Well it's been a few months since I last "put pen to paper", so I just thought I would share a few things with you. The Mighty Seasiders have made an impact on the Premiership already. Currently lying 10th, having played 8 games, winning three, drawing one and losing four so far. Having been beaten by Arsenal, Chelsea, Manchester City and Blackburn, apart from Rovers the defeats were to be expected considering the money these clubs have spent on international players. But when you've got a charismatic manager like Ian Holloway and a team of determined players, as we have, money means nothing. The game against City was televised and brought with it plenty of exposure and compliments from football fans worldwide. We were extremely unlucky not to get at least a point from the game, because we dominated the majority of the game. Our plight wasn't helped by some dubious refereeing decisions, which made the 2-3 scoreline all the more hard to take. The present off-side law is a complete farce. We were denied a perfectly good goal by Gary Taylor-Fletcher(GTF), who was clearly on-side because the referee's assistant flagged Elliot Grandin off-side even though he failed to touch the ball en-route to GTF. Whereas City had a goal by Carlos Tevez allowed even though the cameras clearly showed him to be off-side. Blackpool have had their fair share of bad refereeing decisions over the last few seasons, which makes premiership survival all the more difficult. I just wish we could revert to the old off-side rules, whereby if you were stood in an off-side position irrespective of whether you were interfering with play, you were deemed off-side, end off. Despite the defeats, Blackpool have managed to accrue more points so far than a lot of so called expert pundits thought we would achieve. Our victory at Anfield last week proved we are capable of beating any team on our day. We're selling out our homes games and using all our full away allocations on a regular basis, which is fantastic. The support generated by the fans is one of the best in the country with over 16,000 packing into Bloomfield Rd on Sunday. I am hoping to see all home and away games myself this season. The best ground I've visited so far for fan's accommodation and price of tickets goes to Arsenal. Their team were a pleasure to watch, inflicting the biggest defeat on us so far when we got beat 6-0. Their fans were brilliant too. Our next game is away against Birmingham City, which we are looking forward to very much. If you want to watch free-flowing, entertaining football, watching the Seasiders is the answer.