DON’T LET OYSTON SPOIL FINAL

BLACKPOOL supporters are in a quandary about the League Two play-off final with Exeter on Sunday. This season many have stayed away from Bloomfield Road in protest at Karl Oyston’s stewardship of the club. Now they are undecided about the trip to Wembley. ‘It is a real crisis of conscience for people,’ said Blackpool Supporters’ Trust chairman Steve Rowland. Go. For heaven’s sake, just go. As ethical as the protests have been, Oyston is still in charge and missing out on one of the highlights as a supporter of a lower-league club is not going to change that, short term. Blackpool is yours as much as it is his. Go. Have fun. Enjoy the day. Carry on the protest next season, or through the summer. But this is different. This is Wembley. Don’t do it for him, do it for you. Go. RETAininG the Golden Boot was an outstanding achievement, but Harry Kane still fell one short of matching the only Englishman to finish a Premier League season this century with 30 goals. Kevin Phillips, in 1999-2000. That he did it for seventhplaced Sunderland, who only scored 57 goals in total — Everton totalled more, in 13th — makes it all the more remarkable. He remains the only Englishman to win the European Golden Shoe, too, his name sandwiched between Mario Jardel and Henrik Larsson and before Lionel Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo, Francesco Totti and Luis Suarez. SPORT does not have its own section in the Conservative Party manifesto. Do not consider this an endorsement, but amen to that. If this means less political grandstanding and interference from MPs, it is surely one policy we can all get behind.