Vaughan in doubt for Blackpool

Blackpool will be without their first-choice midfield partnership on Sunday after David Vaughan turned his ankle at training.

Club captain Charlie Adam, Vaughan’s partner in the engine room, is already suspended for Sunday’s Bloomfield Road clash against Tottenham.

And the Scotland midfielder will now be joined by Welsh international Vaughan on the sidelines after his training ground injury.

“Vaughan must be a major doubt,” manager Ian Holloway confirmed on Friday.

“We spent last week training on the beach because of frost, then we returned to our training ground.”

“It was towards the end of the session and Vaughan went over on a hard patch of ground.”

Without those influential midfielders, Holloway is likely to move striker Gary Taylor-Fletcher back into the midfield alongside Ludovic Sylvestre.

Further forward, Blackpool are still without striker Marlon Harewood who has a hamstring injury.

Blackpool have exceeded all expectations this season and sit 10th after their first 16 games.

That form has seen Holloway linked with the vacant Blackburn job, following Sam Allardyce’s sacking earlier this week.

But Holloway said: “It is ridiculous to link me with that. It is absolute rubbish.”

“I signed a contract at Blackpool in the summer, which lasts this season and next season, and I am more than happy. I don’t need to talk to anybody.”

“I haven’t got an agent and I don’t really want one anymore. I am just happy talking to my chairman about the job I’m doing here. I am privileged to have this job and I am trying to do the best I can.”