Mitch Cook's Left Foot

Up for the Cup? the Mighty vs Scunthorpe Utd (terrible preview) The FA Cup is a brilliant idea. You play a game. If you lose it, you're out and if you win you go through to the next round. There is nothin...

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A 'preview' of Blackpool vs Scunthorpe Utd that contains almost zero analysis of anything relevant other than why the cup should be treasured, not ignored.

We're going to win the thing. Obviously.

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Cursed - the Mighty vs Wycombe Wanders I'm starting to think that there's very little point or purpose to all this other than some kind of sick joke to amuse the unknown powers be...

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NEW BLOG - Blackpool vs Wycombe Wanderers

Sometimes you wonder, why do we do this to ourselves?

Relive the horror.

Pffffffffft...

UP THE FUCKING POOL!

Nadir: the Mighty vs Wimbledon This was fucking awful... It's so bad that before they've even scored, I'm thinking of a list of things I could have done with my time inste...

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Blackpool vs Wimbledon.

One of the worst performances I've seen in a long time and the end of Bruceball. We're absolutely nowhere, so where next?

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Capitulation - the Mighty vs Luton Town I'm driving home (see how I've cunningly I've subverted your expectations, by starting, not just at the end but after the end. There are no...

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New Blog - Blackpool vs Luton Town

This season seems to be finding endless ways to disappoint and we seem to keep doing the same thing, over and over with similar results every time.

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What a difference a goal makes...: the Mighty vs Barnsley The sky is grey. The rain is endless. It's like being in Bladerunner only without as much neon and a few less flying cars. I love days like ...

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New Blog: Blackpool vs Barnsley

A hard fought win in a game that felt so much like 0-0 till the very last breath.

Is it a turning point? Who knows?!

*Rain, injuries, lumping it, but ultimately, relief, joy and release*

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Some straws to clutch? - the Mighty vs Barrow Lets be very clear - anything I write has to be consumed with a healthy side portion of 'it's only Barrow reserves in a glorified friendly'...

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New Blog: Blackpool vs Barrow

A tinpot cup win against an out of form League 2 side's reserves is all it is - but did that show give us at least some hope that we're actually not doomed to be as bad as prior evidence might suggest?

I hope so.

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Steve Bruce's Tangerine Army? Football fans are fickle as fuck. I am a football fan. Therefore, I am fickle as fuck. You wouldn't have to very far back in the MCLF archiv...

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A review of where we are and what isn't working. I started this trying to look in the numbers for optimism, but there wasn't much to be found.

I'm not sure what we do next. We've got to sort this quickly because the data is really quite bad.

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⚡ Is he still electric? - the Mighty vs high voltage expectations ⚡ What AI? Painted this myself this morning. Honest. After a summer of begging for on the piss Jerry to come back, he fucked of to the kit ste...

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Equations, overblown metaphors stretched to breaking point, optimism, Michelangelo, some statistics and *actual prayers*

It's no normal blog. It's a 'pinch me, Josh Bowler is back' blog.

Will this work? Fuck knows - but I want it to so much

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Inconclusive?: the Mighty vs 'orrible Horwich Sometimes these blogs write themselves. My fingers tap the keys in synchrony with a memory of the game. It is easy. I just sit there, sift t...

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Blackpool vs Bolton Wanderers:

It was 'better' - but from a very low base, I'm not sure how much to take from this game. It felt a strange match to me and it wasn't easy to write up but at least we weren't a total car crash today.

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Worrying: the Mighty vs panic? The season has not gone to plan so far. Granted we're only 10.86% of the way through the league fixtures - but we're were already at a point...

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Huddersfield was a false dawn it seems. We look really poor overall and there are worrying traits in evidence.

Why are we bad?
Are there excuses?
What should we do?

+ an absolutely TERRIFYING conclusion at the end.

Honeyman's Heroes - the Mighty vs Huddersfield Town Imagine you'd woken up this morning and decided to write a blog where you tried to tell Steve Bruce how to manage a football team . Perhaps ...

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NEW BLOG: Blackpool vs Huddersfield Town

A game I enjoyed as much as any in a long time. A genuinely heroic display of team football with some exceptional individual performances within that.

A massive step forward for us.

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C'mon you POOOOOOOL! This is what we are. We never make it easy, but we are fundamentally greater than anything and everything else in the entire universe and an...

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Not sure what this is or why I wrote it but it's fucking matchday and I can't wait* + maybe we're shite or maybe we're not and maybe we turn a corner or maybe we don't - but today is hope + football so lets fucking do it!

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*sort of

New beginnings... familiar failings: the Mighty vs Stevenage Borough I don't expect you to care about my memories, but the weather is striking a chord  - This is the precisely same weather as a day from my pas...

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Blackpool vs Stevenage Borough

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Bar a few, we looked horribly disjointed and stupid mistakes cost, especially in games where we lack the flair and imagination to cancel them out.

Bring on the new lads. Can't come quick enough!

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Five Steves go to war! - A terrible season preview Cos, AI exists - It's time as expressed in oil painting with the theme of Blackpool FC. Obviously. Are we ready? Shall we look at it objecti...

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The season is almost here.

Metaphors, low level 'analysis', redacted names. Are we ready? I'm not sure we are yet - but bring it on regardless!

Glory is inevitable*

(*at some point in an infinite number of universes)

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Cheers Rob! To begin with, Robbie Apter was merely a rumour. The few who witnessed youth team games spoke in reverential terms of some young kid who was...

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Another one I didn't really want to write. I used to not mind Charlton - now I'm double locking my doors in case they come and nick my stereo and telly.

Rob Apter was a lot of fun - I will miss the lad. Good luck to him!

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So far... so good At this remove, football seems an abstract concept. It's something that happens on DAZN in another part of the world. Observing the slow pa...

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Every close season comes with renewed optimism - but so far, this one seems to be giving us foundations for some genuine belief. There's plenty still to do - but what we've done so far isn't to be sniffed at.

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The challenge is for anyone with the surname 'Darton' to be somehow decent.

I want to propose that both players have to be crap but the result good.

I'd suggest Junior Doolan would be the next best thing to your version.

(What with Bright Osayi actually being decent)

Barry Thornley

Gritty but skillful tanned left sided player. Club legend type.

Tony Caig and Chris Malkin.

Chris Caig:

England keeper for years.

A surefire winner of a blog. The way to blog success is to focus on a very niche group of players people would rather forget in a time when support was low and then make Frankenstein footballers from them.

Love it. 🧡

He was actually not bad and delivered a great ball. It was just that he didn't seem to have any of the other elements a winger usually has.

You could make a serious player out of him AND Parker combined I reckon

Cheers Sonny! 'A moment of brief joy in a dark season of relentless shit' - Medium - Grass and Knees - Artist: Carey, S (Hull, 26,12,22) This is a long pi...

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Cheers Sonny:

Sorrynotsorry. I know Sonny wasn't for everyone, but hey, he's gone, so you can crack on.

Otherwise here's a piece that is about him and football and being a footballer being a fan watching footballers and all of that type of thing.

The World Game? It's the world. But it's TANGERINE.  As a football content creator* it's not really a good position to be in to be sick of football. I am th...

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A rambling under edited long read on whether the FIFA World Club cup is a waste of time or a brave new frontier in club football.

The answer: maybe a bit of both...

Another year older... - Wigan Athletic vs the Mighty Is this game meaningless? Yes and no. On the yes side, It's pretty much meaningless in terms of promotion and definitely meaningless in term...

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NEW BLOG: Wigan Athletic vs Blackpool

A good day out and a game of football, the turning of the world, the meaning of stuff and things and passing the time...

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Seasiders' seriously significant summer The season is more done than David Dunn on a Dun Horse in Dungannon. Thoughts inevitably turn to next year and whilst I'm not a noted transf...

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Thoughts turn to next year. In previous summers, wholescale change has been an option but this year, it's a must.

The fanbase almost unilaterally trusts Bruce - will the club back him?

The fat lady has sung - the Mighty vs Wrexham "Lads, we can still do this - we just need every result for ourselves and 4 other teams to go perfectly as well as a 9 goal swing in our fa...

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New Blog: Blackpool vs Wrexham

We lost, we weren't very good, the season is over. Pfffft.

Life goes on long after the thrill of living is gone etc...

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Still sorry. (Maybe not actually sorry if I'm honest.)

So did I. It was art then...

I had to. I'm sorry.