Mitch Cook's Left Foot

Scrapped. Won! - the Mighty vs Mansfield Town Here we go again. Am I ready for this? Yep. Of course I am. I've prepared by watching a 90 minute documentary about a massive disaster where...

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Blackpool vs Mansfield Town.

It wasn't a classic, it wasn't full of quality, it wasn't a special atmosphere...

...and yet, it was exactly what we needed right now.

A battling performance and 3 points.

Much needed, much improved.

I was left wondering what 'receipt mode' was and whether he was under the delusion that he's actually a cash till.

At one point I swear he said we're not drifting "because we've put a team on the pitch every season"

I'd have to listen back to verify that but I don't think I can face it.

Would help if I posted the link ffs

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Trying to sum up this in some way has taken me a long time.

There's both nothing and everything to say.

I've done my best.

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Painful but still better - Huddersfield Town vs the Mighty To get from here to there you have to cross the tops. Great, dark yawning miles of nothing, obscured today by fog, a trail of disappearing b...

New Blog: Huddersfield Town vs Blackpool

I thought we did really well for 65 minutes + then painfully badly as we ran out of legs. New lads all looked decent though + we took it to them (until we didn't) - I'd have taken 2-2 at the outset.

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One step forward, two steps back - the Mighty vs Stockport County I'm tired. This game has come too quickly. I want to bask in the (relative) glory of Saturday a little longer, feel a tiny bit of optimism i...

A pathetic performance, more injuries and very little that was any good. There's a trend if you look over time and it's downwards. We got it wrong, Evatt got it wrong - but that's just a game and managers make mistakes - real issues are deeper.

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NEW BLOG: Blackpool vs Northampton Town:

I have to say, I'd not be optimistic if I was a Northampton fan... I'd not be optimistic about us if we'd lost that either - we didn't. Signings fitted + plenty of effort. Not a pretty game, but I think, one we needed.

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Freezing, fragile, frustration - the Mighty vs Bradford City There is snow on the motorway. It's Sunday. This is weird.  I don't mind the line up - I can see an idea - Bradford a big and rugged side so...

New Blog: Blackpool vs Bradford City

Whilst we did scrap, it was worrying that we look so threadbare, were so weak (in all senses) in certain positions + had so little creativity/threat. Need to address this as we've hit yet another injury disaster

Boxing Day battlers - the Mighty vs Doncaster Rovers It's not quite snow lying deep and crisp and even, but it's cold and clear and I'm feeling remarkably festive as I set off. Optimism is back...

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NEW BLOG: Blackpool vs Doncaster Rovers

Not pretty, but 3 points are 3 points are 3 points.

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Ole.

That would be magnificent. I think he'd be so bad at it that it would be one of the greatest things to ever happen. It would just keep hitting him and somehow not going in.

Wigan's a magnificent place. The retail park. Less so.

Festive fun - Wigan Athletic vs the Mighty Driving in, down the hill into Wigan, a panorama of the town reveals itself. A solitary chimney stands inert, a silent and redundant memoria...

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Wigan Athletic vs Blackpool

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Another win, another much needed 3 points. For once we turn up with a decent away crowd.

100% concincing? No.
Some signs of real hope? A lot of fun? Yes

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Fight back: the Mighty vs Lincoln City I don't know what we're going to get today. In an Ian Evatt world we've shown we can be good, but we're still very capable of being really ...

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NEW BLOG: Blackpool vs Lincoln City

Whilst there were negatives in that game, to me, showing a bit of resilience and some fight to get back into it is a really important thing. We are improving (we need to improve further too)

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In the hat! - the Mighty vs Carlisle Utd Fucking winter. I mean the season, not the all action, super dynamic CEO of Blackpool Football Club, but I guess, you could read the opening...

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By no means perfect, but when you score four and your manager tells Mark Hughes to fuck off then it's not a bad night. That first Peacock save was fucking stunning as well.

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Yep, all of that 100%

Exactly what we want - the Mighty vs Cardiff City The sky is a splendid azure blue, and the bricks of Bloomfield Road are red, neat, their 90 degree angles offset by the gentle curve of bay ...

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NEW BLOG - Blackpool vs Cardiff City

The most fun I've had at Bloomfield Road in a long time. We looked reborn. A great game of football, a great performance. Savour it!

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You must just have a charisma I don't have. The camera obviously loves you!

I never seem to ever be in their gallery of shame!

One of the reasons I always go right to the back if I can is because I'm less likely to be on telly or in the paper looking gormless.

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Evo-lution + Cup Fever - the Mighty vs Scunthorpe United Today, I want to see a *good game of football* -  that's a very old fashioned desire I know, but I yearn for the kind of thing that has some...

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For all the flaws we have, we played some football, again looked committed, matched the opposition for effort and came out on top. A good cup tie and some good signs of progress however far there is yet to go... Wembley here we come!

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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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