Leicester City put on smart display to beat Blackpool
In fact, the Seasiders are currently celebrating a century as members of the Football League.
However, it was Nigel Pearson's Leicester City who made a few small pieces of their own history on the north-west coast on Saturday.
Earlier this season, City beat the Tangerines 2-1 at the Walkers Stadium to record their first win over them since 1966 and, on Saturday, goals from Dany N'Guessan and substitute Lloyd Dyer gave City their first win at Blackpool for 73 years.
It also completed City's first league double over the Seasiders since 1936.
As nice as those facts are, there were more immediate and important statistics born from this victory. It ended a sequence of four consecutive away defeats in the Championship and FA Cup, and was City's first league win of 2010.
City had dropped out of the play-off places after picking up just two points from the previous 12 available, but they returned to sixth place after this victory.
Last week's superb battling performance against Newcastle had sown the seeds for this triumph. After experiencing a testing few weeks, City regained some valuable confidence from the way they took the game to the league leaders with just 10 men for an hour.
Pearson had also adopted an attacking 4-3-3 formation against the Geordies which made them more of a potent threat. Goals have been difficult to come by for City this season but this new formation added a more destructive dimension to their play.
They carried on last week's performance at Bloomfield Road and the three-pronged attack of Martyn Waghorn, Matty Fryatt and N'Guessan, who replaced the suspended Richie Wellens, ran Blackpool's defence ragged at times.
The hosts enjoyed plenty of possession and created plenty of opportunities of their own, especially in the second half, but City deserved their half-time lead, although they were thankful to goalkeeper Chris Weale who produced a superb close-range save to push Stephen Dobbie's attempt on to the bar after just 10 minutes.
With Weale in fine form and the defence looking as solid as it did last week against Newcastle, City had the confidence to test their hosts and they took the lead in the 15th minute when Waghorn picked out N'Guessan with a cross-field pass and the winger raced into the box and beat Matthew Gilks with a low finish in off the far post.
N'Guessan has all the raw attributes to be a dangerous player.
The trick for Pearson is to give him the belief to do it on a more consistent basis. Fryatt could have had a brace before half-time as he raced on to Matt Oakley's quickly-taken throw-in the opening 10 minutes but could not finish and then, 10 minutes before half-time, Alex Baptiste blocked his close-range attempt on the line following a goalmouth scramble from a Paul Gallagher corner.
The excellent chances kept coming at the start of the second half as first Fryatt headed an N'Guessan cross just over the bar and then Waghorn failed to force home another superb delivery from the Frenchman from close range.
City's Achilles heel has been their inability to kill off opponents and again that fear surfaced as Blackpool took control but, with Weale in superb form, the hosts could not force an equaliser.
He produced excellent stops from Keith Southern and Dobbie as the Tangerine tide kept threatening to swamp City. But then the excellent Gallagher pulled the plug on Ian Holloway's side when he won the ball in midfield, fed Fryatt down the right and he picked out Dyer who slid in to convert his second goal of the season.
With Blackpool looking increasingly desperate, City threatened to pick off the hosts on the counter-attack with their new found pace and verve.
Dyer had another chance from another superb N'Guessan cross and Fryatt struck the side-netting after being set up by Andy King.
The Seasiders set up a nervy finish when Dobbie was able to wriggle past Oakley and King far too easily on the edge of the box, and he managed to beat Weale with a low strike just inside the post.
There was a further fright for Pearson and the travelling 1,600 City fans when Charlie Adam raced into the box under pursuit from N'Guessan and took a tumble.
There appeared to have been some contact, although unintentional, and Adam did not deserve his yellow card.
However, after getting the rough end of referees' decisions in the previous three games when they had good claims for penalties, City deserved to get the benefit of the doubt on this occasion.
City now face back-to-back home games against Doncaster and Scunthorpe United, and two victories could really put them back into the play-off picture.
On this evidence, City seem to have the confidence, the organisation and the attacking potency to pull it off.
Lloyd Dyer
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