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Blackpool Supporters’ Trust wishes to congratulate and thank all football fans who attended the Fans United march and protest today on their passionate but impeccable behaviour throughout the proceedings.
The entire morning was a celebration of the coming together of thousands of like-minded football fans with supporters from other clubs - noticeable by their shirts and accents – in support of our common cause, giving football back to the fans. The procession was spectacular, the demands for the Oystons to go were vociferous and the laying of shirts, scarves and messages at the plinth where Stan Mortensen’s statue stood was very moving.
Yes, there was a pitch invasion and yes, the afternoon’s game did get abandoned but the frustration of the majority inside Bloomfield Road at the way the club has been run of late was palpable and there was clear sympathy for this act of civil disobedience in which both the pitch invaders and the police acted with restraint and good humour.
The camaraderie and solidarity shown left many with the feeling that no matter what football club owners may throw at them (or remove from them), we will never be detracted or diverted from our main objective of returning our club to its fans and the community it serves.
Football was indeed first today – and it made you feel proud to be a Blackpool fan, it made you feel proud to be a football fan.