Blackpool
After a couple of years of being in a different league, we were back down at Blackpools level. Bad news for the team but good news for us as it’s one of our favourite away days. It was here, in 2017, where DaBall scored a second half brace and famously turned our fortunes around. We went from discussing if we would still support the club in none league (Vicky -yes, us-bring on the Arsenal), to celebrating promotion at Wembley. The last couple of times we had stayed in a hotel in Fleetwood where I fell out of the car into a big puddle, and a posh one near the Pleasure Beach. This time we decided to take Dame Shirley. Alas for us, the day of the game was also the day Storm Darragh hit. The news was full of portents of disaster, with huge red weather warnings all over and a doomsday text scaring the life out of millions of people. Storm Darragh Still, you know what they say about football, it’s not a matter of life and death (it’s more important!) so we set off on the Fri...