Underfire U's boss Steve Whitton is desperate for three points after seeing his team go eight games without a win at Layer Road.

It seems a very long time since the Kem Izzet-inspired 2-0 win over Chesterfield in fact, it was more than three months ago.

But Colchester haven't won at all since the 3-2 away triumph over Luton in mid-December.

And with the U's now lying in the Division Two relegation zone, Whitton knows that his team need to pull something out of the bag tomorrow.

They face a Blackpool team who are knocking on the play-off door and who beat them 3-1 in the U's last game of 2002.

Published Friday, January 24, 2003

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