The Scottish ace will travel to Merseyside to agree personal terms and undergo a medical before putting pen-to-paper with the five-time European champions.

Liverpool coach Kenny Dalglish is a keen admirer of Adam who had only 12 months left on his current contract at Blackpool.

By Oliver Sparrow, writing from London

"If we can go to Man Utd and get something and that keeps us up, I think that will be the best story that I've ever read or seen unfold - never mind anything that William Shakespeare's ever written." – Ian Holloway

Fifty-seven minutes of Blackpool's do-or-die last game of the season again Manchester United had elapsed.

Devastated Ian Holloway's interview just after the final whistle at Old Trafford yesterday.

1. In terms of material for OTP, losing Ian Holloway but unexpectedly keeping Mick McCarthy is akin to being relegated but your star player announcing he wants to stay at the club. 2. OTP has been pretty harsh on Ian Evatt at various points throughout the season, but we would just like to put on [...

By Oliver Sparrow, writing from London

Finally the fateful day has arrived - Survival Sunday. Come this evening we'll all know who will be joining poor old Scott Parker's West Ham in The Championship and who will be staying up to enjoy another season of fun and frolics in the Premier League.

Relegation, prize money and a Portuguese record breaker Blackpool Whilst Blackpool have undoubtedly been a breath of fresh air in the Premier League, should his side be relegated at Old Trafford on Sunday then there will be questions asked of Ian Holloway's ethos. Because quite simply when a promoted club has the sixth top scorer [.

Blackpool boss Ian Holloway blasts FA Chiefs who he believes want to see Blackpool relegated.

It's not often in the sport of soccer that you get to watch a game where you badly want both teams to win, or more accurately in this case, neither team to lose, but coming up this Sunday afternoon, one of those scenarios occurs in the English Premier League at Old Trafford when League Champions Man Utd host relegation candidates Blackpool.

And so the attention on the final weekend of this season's Premier League will (with all due respect to the struggle to avoid Europa League qualification) be upon the battle to avoid the dreaded drop into the Championship. This weekend's results could not have been scripted better with five clubs now separated by just one point.

This sounds bad but I almost want Blackpool to win. It's been nice having those Tangerines with us in the Prem, and with a killer final fixture, they need a result against us to salvage any hope of staying up. While Blackpool are fighting for survival, Bolton don't seem to be fighting for much anymore.

David Vaughan: Blackpool's ‘Other' Midfielder is a post from: Just Football

Mention the words 'Blackpool' and 'midfielder' this season and invariably only one name is ever mentioned. But as Joel Sked argues, it's not all about Charlie:

Ask followers of the English Premier League who Blackpool's player of the year would be and the majority would give you the name of Charlie Adam.

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With Blackpool having exceeded all expectations in their debut Premier League season, their colourful manager Ian Holloway is many neutrals' choice for Premier League Manager of the Year. A confident Holloway is believed to be preparing an absolutely tortuous speech: riddled with zany turns of phrase, clunking West Country references and an extended metaphor involving two pints of cider and a cornish pasty.

All you need is love.

Teams
Blackpool
Kingson, Eardley, Evatt, Baptiste, Crainey, Vaughan, Carney, Southern, Puncheon, Reid, Beattie. Subs: Halstead, Grandin, Varney, Kornilenko, Phillips, Taylor-Fletcher, Ormerod.

Arsenal held. United ruined at Anfield. Spurs undone by a Fletch not portrayed by Chevy Chase.

That's a great day my friends. Now, time to make it count for something.

Who: Blackpool FC
What: Premier League, Round 29
When: 7 March, 7:55 p.

When Harry Redknapp's Tottenham side arrived at Bloomfield Rd tonight for their English Premier League clash with Blackpool, you would have thought that they would fancy their chances given the confidence of last week's win over Serie A leaders AC Milan at the San Siro. With Blackpool's current run of poor form, the result looked to be a foregone conclusion, but as with Liverpool, Man City, and Man Utd, fortunes took a turn for the worse for the away team, to the point where the hosts tonight ran out 3-1 winners to claw their way back to a mid-table position.

When a journalist asks Ian Holloway if he has "man love" for Spurs coach Harry Redknapp it causes an eruption of laughter. Very funny stuff, but as usual Holloway takes it in his stride!

The biggest Roller Coaster ride in the World.Not if you're a Spurs fan it's not. The last time the rumour mill turned its attention to Harry he was off to take over the England team though not before we had won the Champions' League and Premiership obviously. Now the moving finger having writ, moves on and now he's more likely to be sent down in July on the tax charges that have been stalking

Enjoyed this one, a comedy sketch of Blackpool manager Ian Holloway with the impersonator doing a pretty spot on job! This sounds like something I would expect to hear from Holloway!

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There was a time on Saturday night when Lionel Messi actually became frustrated with himself and his teammates. There was a time on Saturday night when Xavi Hernández could not find the killer pass through the hard-working, organized defense.

Beatts running Some footballers of a certain age of accused of being happy to sit on their bench and collect their pay packet, but not Blackpool's James Beattie. The Seasiders' new star striker has volunteered to forego his attacking duties and be the team's substitute keeper instead. With Matt Gilks and Paul Rachubka out injured, [.

Ian Holloway is hoping to turn around Blackpool's poor recent form this week-end at home to Aston Villa, while also explaining the language barrier at the club!

May 21st 2009, Ian Holloway took over at Blackpool FC with a commitment to get his new team to the promised land. The one thing you notice is how he talks sense everything the man says is real!

OK then he was as close to been speechless as you can get for Ian Holloway. But he was left flabbergasted after the 5-3 defeat at Goodison Park today.

We've decided to add a new category to the site aptly named "Ian Holloway Watch", he's been a breath of fresh air since Blackpool reached the EPL via the Play-Offs last Summer, his no bulls**t attitude to both EPL authorities and clubs have been outrageous, his current stance on midfielder Charlie Adams staying at Bloomfield Road have been as entertaining as his teams attacking football on the pitch and here's our first installment of "Ian Holloway watch".

The winner takes it all, the loser gets a list too Following on from yesterday's list of transfer deadline day winners, here are their less fortunate counterparts: 1. John W. Henry's chequebook The Liverpool owner's bank account took a bit of a battering. The Fernando Torres sale covered most of the costs, but Kenny Dalglish [.

Despite Blackpool boss Ian Holloway's now void and empty resignation threat, the Premier League fined The Tangerines £25,000 for fielding a weakened team against Aston Villa on November 10th.

The steps taken, in which Wolves suffered a similar fate last season, were taken as it is was deemed that manager Holloway breached Premier League rules B.

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The AFR House was rocking once again, although this time around we couldn't manage to get any of our female writers to join in on the pod. But regardless, we're not raging sexists, so we still managed to have intelligent conversations on the most pressing topics in the beautiful game.

By Darshan Joshi, writing from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Just imagine the scenario – the final day of the campaign is over, and West Ham United have finished a point adrift of 17th spot, sentencing themselves to a year, at least, in the Championship.

This week's Friday videos feature man of the moment Charlie Adam.
Will he go to Liverpool? Will he stay at Blackpool? Will Charlie, Rangers or Ian Holloway make more money from the deal?
First up, a young and nervous Charles scores a pre-season hat-trick:
Charlie does a "Chic Charnley" in a friendly match:
Revelling in the big match atmosphere in the play-off:
And scoring for St Mirren back in the day:
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Ian Holloway has confirmed that he will receive a percentage of the profit made from the sale of star midfielder Charlie Adams.

Holloway has a clause in his contract which states any profit made in the sale of any of his players he will get a cut.

On the 10th of November Ian Holloway was accused by the Premier League of fielding a weakened team against Aston Villa for their league clash. While Blackpool played heroically and nearly walked away with a point, the Premier League rules insisted that managers must field their strongest squad something that Holloway insists he did.

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King Kenny comes to save the day, but villainous Ian gets in the way?

Olly in line for nice profit Ian Holloway has been providing lots of material for OTP with his very public negotiations over any possible deal for captain Charlie Adam. We thought it was Olly being his usual outspoke self, but it would appear he has actually being displaying some decent business acumen.

What a match. We were suddenly back to the United of old: the careless start then attacking flair and literal bloody mindedness to win at any cost. There would always be blood, sweat and tears at Bloomfield Road, just as there was at Burnley last year. I feared that before the match and especially when we went a goal down early on.

Carletto loses out to an old lady.

• Enjoying Adebayor's wages. (La Liga Loga)
• Football would be better sans Andy Gray. (Left Back In The Changing Room)
• Wish granted. (Guardian)
• And making Americans look good at that. (Total Soccer Show)
• Ian Holloway sings a tune.

Ian Holloway has blasted Liverpool for their £4 million bid for Blackpool's star midfielder Charlie Adam. Holloway believes that the Reds' bid is far too low, and he accused Damien Comolli, Liverpool's director of football strategy, of "faffing about."

"A bid of £4m is not acceptable," Holloway said yesterday.

Jog on, jog on, you'll never sign Adam Blackpool manager Ian Holloway launched into a rendition of You'll Never Walk Alone as he discussed Liverpool's bid for skipper Charlie Adam and the midfielder's subsequent transfer request. Holloway defended the player and said he had done nothing wrong. He revealed the Reds' attention had been the [.

Olly explores his Scottish side Bids for Blackpool midfielder Charlie Adam have once again hot his manager Ian Holloway hot under the collar. A cheeky inquiry from Aston Villa had Holloway comparing himself to a dog and threatening to bite people a couple of weeks ago. Now he has fallen out with Liverpool manager Kenny [.

Wait, what did you say Andy Gray was?

So, apparently there was a female assistant referee running the lines for the Wolves match. Having noted that she got a potentially tricky call right when judging Meireles onside in the lead-up to Torres' first goal though she then got a somewhat easier call on Maxi wrong as Torres rippled the side netting before everybody realised the play had been flagged offside I quickly forgot about her.