Stephen Dobbie shares memories of Blackpool move

Blackpool first-team coach Stephen Dobbie reflects on his first impressions of life at Bloomfield Road during his playing career.

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00:00Obviously I got the phone call that Ian Holloway wanted to sign me and my wife at the time she was six days

00:07overdue pregnant

00:08so it was sort of

00:10pack the bags

00:12Plot every hospital on the way from Swansea to Blackpool, which you can imagine was a lot in case our waters broke

00:19so the first first

00:22Sort of site of Blackpool was a rainy night driving to the front of the the prom

00:28To stay in a hotel

00:30But knowing that I'm only 15 minutes away for a hospital. So that was the first

00:35My first feeling of Blackpool. We had a dog in the hotel room. So

00:40And try to manage I think we played Saturday. Jack was born on this Sunday

00:46Morning, and then we had another game on the Tuesday

00:49West Brom at home if I remember rightly

00:52So it was a hectic time the first the first week that we were at the seaside