Blackpool v West Ham United: live 26 min Quietened down a bit after a reasonably hectic opening quarter. Damian Durrant sounds a little crabby: See, if Philipps were Spanish he would have chipped the goalkeeper (and been called Phillipo) but here any flair gets trained out of them doesn't it? 23 min You've never seen Tony Soprano do anything this athletic: 20 min Much better from West Ham. Cole, Vaz Te and Collison combine in the box and Blackpool looked stretched. In the end Vaz Te has space for a shot from a narrow angle. It's the side netting again. He really loves hitting the side netting. Notoriously even-handed man Paul Davies has some pros and cons for us all: I suppose Blackpool would bring attractive football and goals and a manager who makes great comments to the press. West Ham would bring a Premiership standard ground, a large following but hit and hope football with a dour manager. Therefore I hope Blackpool win 18 min Unconvincing from West Ham. Taylor receives a backwards pass on the left-hand flank. Not the easiest position to cross from but he produces a meaningless low diagonal pass into the area. Easily cleare.d 16 min Phillips again! Made his own chance that time, holding off Demel then getting away for him. The chance opens up for him wonderfully, he's just got to find the corner. Wide! Blackpool on top now, counter attacking with speed and it's got West Ham worried. 14 min Eek, some more nearly criminal headlessness from Matt Phillips, who's put in behind the West Ham defence after some excellent quick triangular passing in Blackpool's midfield which drastically exposes West Ham, but his control is poor and can only manage a weak shot. 11 min Vaz Te reaches the byline but he's reasonably well marshalled by Baptiste. Men in the box for West Ham but Vaz Te tries to shoot. Bad idea. He falls down and puts it into the side netting. Nicely open so far but someone needs to stay calm in a crucial position, only Dobbie's managed to produce anything sensible in the box so far. 9 min Good work from Dobbie who receives a short pass with his back to goal just over the halfway line. Quickly realising he's not been closed down he surges forward with the ball but both of the Phillipses in front of him fail to peel off their men and find space, there's no pass on for Dobbie and he's tackled. 8 min We're witnessing some patently nervous play from both sides now. Promising spell for West Ham with plenty forward. Taylor arrives from nowhere to try a strike from outside the box but fluffs it. 5 min Thomas Ince getting the expected reception from the West Ham supporters: 3 min Great save by Green on his near post. Diagonal ball finds Dobbie on the right-hand side of the area, Taylor misjudges it and Dobbie can shoot. Green palms it onto his post! West Ham clear. 2 min Nervous start from Blackpool. Vaz Te and Cole have got into space behind their defence already, but were scuppered by an overhits pass and an offside flag. Ferguson also hoofed a controllable pass straight up into the air in the centre circle. 1 min West Ham get us under way. Ian Holloway looks extremely nervous. 14.57 National anthem sung. Now it's time for that other Wembley pre-game tradition: some adverts for beers and betting companies. 14.55 The teams are out. I'm told Blackpool are wearing their change strip because they won this match in it two years ago. 14.52 Wembley looking glorious. Clash between claret and tangerine still troubling my eyes. Blackpool also surely have the most odious shirt sponsor in English football? 14.49 Brilliant scenes update: 14.42 West Ham are warming up. Some pretty angry looking pointing going on from their fitness coach. Enjoying their kicking, stretching and dancing routine very much. Blackpool's team are looking at them from the other end of the pitch furtively chomping on sticks of rock. 14.39 Brilliant scenes update: 14.35 It definitely doesn't work, does it? 14.30 Sky have just shown a montage depicting Sam Allardyce as... Tony Soprano. 14.25 Here's your first pertinent statistical tweet of the day from the nice people at Opta: 14.15 Am I alone in absolutely loving Ian Holloway? I get the impression that most people find him a bit tiresome these days. I just think he's an excellent, earnest man. He's talking to Sky. He'd like to win this match. 14.10 Here are the full teams: Blackpool: Gilks, Baptiste, Evatt, Eardley, Crainey, Ferguson, Martinez, Dobbie, M.Phillips, Ince, K.Phillips Subs: Southern, Sylvestre, Cathcart, Dicko, Bednar West Ham: Green, Demel, Taylor, Reid, Tomkins, Noble, Nolan, O'Neil, Collison, Vaz Te, Cole Subs: Henderson, Faubert, McCartney, Lansbury, Maynard 14.06 Gary Taylor-Fletcher is out injured, Kevin Phillips starts for Blackpool instead. West Ham are unchnaged, with Jack Collison fit after dislocating his shoulder. 14.05 Kristian Walsh is concerned for the north: 14.01 Sky have momentarilly torn their attention away from the Champions League and cast their glance towards Wembley. Sky presenting robot number four is in the Blackpool dressing room. They're wearing white today. 14.00 The West Ham dressing room could not be any more ready: 13.45 Sky have Jeff Stelling, Gary Neville, Graeme Souness and Jamie Redknapp inside a Munich studio already. Long way to go, chaps. Do you reckon they get toilet breaks? 13.30 Afternoon liveblog fans. So we are all in agreement? This is today's biggest and only football match? You can have your showpiece continental finals and operatic themetunes, Blackpool are playing West Ham for a spot in The Greatest League In The World and a cash prize of 400 trillion pounds. Blackpool were rinsed in the league meetings between these two by an aggregate score of 8-1, but I'm not convinced that will tremendously important this afternoon. My theory is West Ham, despite all their form and set piece-based threats, will be feeling the pressure far more at Wembley this afternoon. They were expected to go up, Blackpool's appearance here is a bonus. Ian Holloway's taken them up before and if they can keep it relatively tight for the opening quarter of the match they've got the pace and skill to cause West Ham problems at the back. Team news and "brilliant scenes" updates from Wembley to follow, stay tuned.