Blackpool may have difficulty in shaking off the ‘jokers’ tag, but could it play to their advantage?

Blackpool is best known for its pleasure beach, arcades, and thousands of bald-headed, sunburnt British tourists that flock to the seaside each year. You wouldn't automatically associate Blackpool with football, and you certainly wouldn't have predicted this time last year that they had a realistic chance of reaching the play-offs, let alone actually gaining promotion [.