Holloway rounds on Blackpool critics

02 November 2010 08:30
Blackpool manager Ian Holloway believes his side are proving the critics wrong after they moved into the top half of the Barclays Premier League table with a 2-1 win over nine-man West Brom. The Tangerines were widely expected to be the top tier's whipping boys after they won promotion via the Championship play-offs last term, with some pundits even suggesting they might not surpass Derby's lowest points total of 11 set three season ago. But after just 10 games Holloway's side have already surpassed that target and the 47-year-old manager admitted he was revelling in showing up those who doubted his squad of relative unknowns. "It's a wonderful situation to get a couple of points off our chest," he said after his side's first home win of the season. "Ten points, the lowest points ever, we aren't going to be that team, so shut up the lot of you whoever wrote it. "That's what I feel like. It's unfair. They judged us far too early. I think we're a good bunch of lads, we're a good team. I think we've got to improve, I think we'll try to. "But that's 13 points in 10 games. They might be the only 13 points we get, (but) you said we were only going to get 10. Please don't disrespect us."

Source: PA