On This Day – 25th January

League leaders Manchester United visited Blackpool’s Bloomfield Highway on this present day in 2011 and fought again to win the sport 3-2 after going two targets down.

Blackpool have been of their first season within the prime flight for 40 years after promotion through the play-offs the earlier season. Early outcomes had been encouraging and their followers have been handled to a 2-1 victory away to Liverpool on third October.

Craig Cathcart gave the house facet a shock lead after 1 / 4 of an hour with a header from a Charlie Adam nook. DJ Campbell then doubled Blackpool’s benefit two minutes later with a duplicate of the primary purpose.

The United workforce should have been given one in all Sir Alex Ferguson’s famend hairdryer therapies at half-time and got here again strongly after the break. They scored three targets in sixteen minutes to win the sport.

Dimitar Berbatov scored the primary within the 72nd minute earlier than Javier Hernandez equalised two minutes later. Berbatov added his second of the sport within the 88th minute and United prolonged their lead on the prime of the desk to 5 factors/

This was Blackpool’s third defeat in a row. They might go on and lose the subsequent two video games and solely document two extra victories earlier than the tip of the season. They have been relegated on the ultimate day of the season after a 4-2 defeat at Previous Trafford, a recreation that at one level they have been main 2-1. If Ian Holloway’s males had held on to that lead they’d have stayed within the prime flight.

Manchester United gained the Premier League title on the finish of this season, ending 9 factors forward of runners-up Chelsea.

Blackpool have by no means returned to the highest flight and suffered two consecutive defeats that took them right down to League Two for the primary time since 2001.

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