Loan stars risk upsetting parent clubs Leicester and Swansea - 10 years on from Blackpool's promotion to the Premier League

Over the coming weeks, we’ll be dipping into the archives to bring you STEVE CANAVAN’S Gazette reports from a decade ago on Blackpool’s remarkable journey to the promised land.

On this day 10 years ago, the Seasiders were given a timely boost with four games of the season to go...

Goalscorers DJ Campbell and Stephen Dobbie will stay at Blackpool throughout the play-offs, should the Seasiders get that far.

Seamus Coleman, whose loan deal runs out next Wednesday, also wants to stay for longer and “help the club win promotion”.

“We’ll see what Everton have to say and whatever both teams want is what matters,” said Coleman, 21, who has made a real impression at right back – Pool are unbeaten in five games since he joined.

“I’d love to stay and help us get promoted. But if I have to go back then that’s the way it is. I just have to do whatever I’m told but hopefully it can be sorted.”

Pool will open talks with Everton in the next few days. But for strike duo Campbell and Dobbie there is no need.

Both are signed until May 31 to allow them to take part in the play-offs, should the Seasiders get that far.

However, there is a clause in the deals which means neither could face their parent clubs in the play-offs – Campbell couldn’t play against Leicester City, Dobbie against Swansea City.

The fact that the pair are scoring goals for the Seasiders has caused some mutterings among Leicester and Swansea fans, who can’t understand why their players are at a club vying with them for a play-off place.

Holloway admits it was a tidy piece of business to get the pair, but says Leicester and Swansea weren’t to know how well the duo would perform.

“We’ve all ended up as managers loaning out people who have done well elsewhere,” said the Pool boss.

“I have watched Ishmel Demontagnac for Chesterfield in the last couple of games and he has scored and won a couple of penalties.

“The Chesterfield fans will probably be thinking ‘how come he can’t get in the Blackpool team?’ So we’ve all got people that we are trying to bring on and nurture and sometimes you let them out on loan.

“It’s not even a case of a face not fitting sometimes. It’s just the fact that a certain manager wants to do something… and we’ve benefited from that (with Dobbie and Campbell).”

It’s an odd situation for both players, who find themselves in the strange position of battling against their parent clubs for a play-off place.

“It does feel odd but the fact is that I am here until May and I want to do my best for Blackpool. If that means us getting in the play-offs then so be it,” said Campbell.

“I’ll probably be Judas if we do get in there and Leicester don’t!

“But I’ve had my time at Leicester and things haven’t really worked out for whatever reason.

“I’m at Blackpool until May and while I’m here I’m going to do the best I can for the club.”