They say a fish rots from the head down. In which case Blackpool FC is dead in the water. The utter incompetence we've seen from the board room this year has now reached the secretary's office and it's hit the Chairman just where it hurts .. in the pocket. Karl Oyston won't be bothered about the reputation of the club or the fact that another administrative error has almost cost us one of our seven valuable league points (the FL probably felt sorry for us and didn't consider a points deduction), but the fact it's cost him £15,000 may make him sit up and realise that the club is a shambles.

The latest debacle comes from the Football League:

An independent Football Disciplinary Commission (FDC) has fined Blackpool a sum of £30,000, half of which will be suspended, for fielding an ineligible player (Donervon Daniels) in the club’s Sky Bet Championship fixture with Millwall on August 30. Millwall won the match 2-1 with Daniels playing the full 90 minutes. The FDC also ordered Blackpool to pay the costs of the hearing and those of The Football League.

In layman's terms Daniels' loan extension wasn't properly registered at the Football League in time for the game at Millwall. The Club Secretary who came in for plenty of abuse at the start of the season for failing to register players may not find the Chairman so quick to jump to his defence this time. In all the years that Peter Collins and Matt Williams were in charge of the secretarial side of things there were never any hitches and Blackpool was always seen as a well run club (albeit the fax machine sometimes had a bit of a 'mare).

There is then the damning article that Andre Orlandi wrote about preparations for the Fulham game. "Everything was OK until the afternoon…the bad thing about having the hotel in London is the traffic and it took the coach 3 hours to get to Craven Cottage with the equipment and then he had to come back to pick us up. We set off late and we arrived only 50 minutes before kick off. It was so close that the captain and the coach had to run from the bus to be able to sign the pre-game paperwork on time. There is always something going wrong every week but saying that, we didn’t do too badly against Fulham despite having a player sent off."

Add to that the embarrassing truth from Paul Ince on Sunday, a table that sees Blackpool lie bottom by a good margin and every other debacle that has unfolded this year and incompetence is rife at Bloomfield Road. In any other business, there would be dismissals from top to the bottom. Sadly Blackpool FC is like no other business and expect the 'business as usual' line if the club do comment on another embarrassing day in a once proud club's history.

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