Hi all, yes I'm a Blackpool fan, no I'm not American!
I've been a fan all my life, used to post on the old avftt before joining Back Henry Street as a moderator. I actually helped Steed with his court case. My old username there was foggy but I stopped posting on avftt so you might not recognise the username.
I started this project in 2015 right in the middle of everything that was happening, so I have a lot of contemporaneous research and interviews. But I stopped because I was just out of university at the time, probably wasn't ready to write a book and of course litigation was still ongoing with fans.
I started the book back up again last year, it's coming out through Pitch Publishing in September. It will follow the club basically from 09 promotion right to Sadler taking over - all the court cases, boycotts, protests etc. I've got over 100,000 words easily of interviews done, I've interviewed key supporters from BST and the Knights, ex-players and staff from board members to managers. It's going to be, hopefully, the definitive, comprehensive record of that period of the club. It's probably about halfway finished, so well on track. Most of what has been written so far has been the off the field stuff, what was going on behind the scenes, which is the most difficult to research and write about, the rest will be a lot easier to cover.
Sorry if it seems a little strange right now, if you're just hearing about it, the book hasn't been 'hard launched' so to speak. I started a BFC twitter account yesterday just to help me reach out to some more people for interviews and people have picked up on the pre-orders. By the way, you can pre-order now, so please do! But there will be lots more updates, and a press campaign a bit closer to time, so keep an eye out for that. My 'basketball twitter' as one or two of you have found is my other love, of the NBA, which grew a lot when I was boycotting the team! My new BFC twitter account which will have updates on the book is @nathanfoggbfc
