Angry Mick Halsall refused to travel home on the team bus!

Posh will hope to avoid last season’s roller coaster of a League One game at Bloomfield Road as Blackpool secured a thrilling 4-3 win.

Posh scored early through Mo Eisa, but conceded two own goals through Niall Mason and Dan Butler and a penalty leaving Ivan Toney’s strike and a penalty from Marcus Maddison meaningless.

Visiting Blackpool in the 199os was usually a traumatic experience for Posh with a 4-0 defeat in 1995 followed by a 5-1 battering two years later.

Posh were so bad in the 1995 game, assistant manager Mick Halsall refused to travel back on the team bus for fear of what he might say/do. He grabbed a lift home instead in

the Evening Telegraph car.

Blackpool have undergone major squad surgery since last season’s win once manager Simon Grayson was replaced by highly-regarded Liverpool coach Neil Critchley. Grayson has now been appointed Fleetwood manager until the end of the season.

But results havent gone as planned this season with Pool sitting in 15th place heading into Saturday’s game.

The Seasiders haven’t lost at home since October when Charlton beat them 1-0.

Top scorer Jerry Yates claimed one of his eight goals in a thoroughly deserved 2-1 win at Posh in November.

Gary Madine grabbed a late winner as Pool became the only League One team to win a game at London Road in 2020.

Madine could be back from injury to face Posh. Speedy winger CJ Hamilton has been absent with a hamstring injury for the past six weeks.

Mick Halsall