Matt Scrafton Journalist
  • Blackpool
  • National World

Matt is a Blackpool FC writer for Blackpool Gazette.

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Blackpool Gazette

Focus Areas

  • Sports
  • Football
  • Blackpool FC

1449 Articles
about 2 years ago
blackpoolgazette.co.uk

A fitting way to mark Neil Critchley's 100th game: Matt Scrafton's verdict on Blackpool's pulsati...

It was a shame the Seasiders couldn’t find that all-important goal their performance arguably deserved, but this was ...

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about 2 years ago
blackpoolgazette.co.uk

Blackpool do what they always do, respond to a setback: Matt Scrafton's verdict on emphatic Readi...

Whenever Blackpool suffer a setback, they invariably make up for it straight away. This game was a microcosm of that.

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about 2 years ago
blackpoolgazette.co.uk

'Providing an uplifting boost in defeat': Matt Scrafton's verdict on Blackpool's heroic FA Youth ...

It’s not often in football you can feel uplifted in defeat. But this was one of those rare occasions.

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about 2 years ago
blackpoolgazette.co.uk

Death, taxes...and complaining about referees: Matt Scrafton's verdict on Blackpool's draw agains...

At some point this season, there will be a game where we’re not discussing the officials. Unfortunately this isn’t it.

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over 2 years ago
blackpoolgazette.co.uk

A game where everything went to plan: Matt Scrafton's verdict as Blackpool breeze past abject Bri...

Barring Bristol City’s 86th minute consolation, this day couldn’t have gone much better for the Seasiders.

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over 2 years ago
blackpoolgazette.co.uk

A story of redemption: Matt Scrafton's verdict as Blackpool edge past Millwall to make it back-to...

Plenty of eyebrows will have been raised when the team sheets were released an hour before kick-off on Saturday.

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over 2 years ago
blackpoolgazette.co.uk

Are we witnessing a changing of the guard? Matt Scrafton's ode to Dan Grimshaw following Blackpoo...

If this is how Dan Grimshaw is going to perform for the entirety of 2022, spare a thought for Chris Maxwell.

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over 2 years ago
blackpoolgazette.co.uk

Matt Scrafton column: Why Blackpool are right to feel aggrieved that other clubs aren't playing b...

At what point do Blackpool admit defeat and join the hordes of clubs up and down the land whose games are being calle...

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over 2 years ago
blackpoolgazette.co.uk

'Blackpool's luck will surely turn': Matt Scrafton's verdict on the gut-wrenching last-gasp defea...

Football can be a cruel, cruel mistress sometimes.

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over 2 years ago
blackpoolgazette.co.uk

A cruel Boxing Day knockdown: Matt Scrafton's verdict on Blackpool's harsh defeat to Huddersfield...

They say goals change games, but red cards tend to have a pretty big impact too.

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over 2 years ago
blackpoolgazette.co.uk

Matt Scrafton column: Nobody wants a repeat of Blackpool's Christmas Day drama last year

I’m normally someone that likes to be prepared, get ahead and write my weekly column as early as possible.

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over 2 years ago
blackpoolgazette.co.uk

Blackpool player ratings at the halfway stage of the Championship season

We’re now at the halfway stage of the 2021/22 Championship season.

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