Title: List of Blackpool F.C. managers
Content:  There have been 36 full-time managers of Blackpool F.C. (including repeat appointments). The longest-serving manager was Joe Smith, who occupied the role for 23 years; Michael Appleton, meanwhile, lasted 65 days in the role. The club has, on average, appointed a new manager just under every three years. As of March 2020, the club has had ten full-time managers in eight years. There have been three repeat appointments: Bob Stokoe, Allan Brown and Simon Grayson. In 2014, Jose Riga became the club's first foreign manager. In 2020, Neil Critchley became the first appointment to be known as a head coach.
Title: 2014–15 Blackpool F.C. season
Content:  Barry Ferguson, Blackpool's caretaker player-manager for the final twenty league games of the previous campaign, was not given the role full-time and left the club. Including Ferguson, Blackpool released 17 players, while five loan players returned to their parent clubs. On 11 June Belgian José Riga was appointed as Blackpool's new manager. He was their first from overseas and their third full-time manager in two years. Blackpool had stated they would discuss contract terms with nine out of contract professionals, but of those only Tony McMahon signed a new deal to return to the club. Among the departees were Matt Gilks, the club's only remaining goalkeeper and player 
Title: 2001–02 Blackpool F.C. season
Content:  The 2001–02 season was Blackpool F.C.'s 94th season (91st consecutive) in the Football League. They competed in the 24-team Division Two, then the third tier of English league football, finishing sixteenth. John Murphy and Brett Ormerod were the club's joint-top scorers, with twenty goals each in all competitions. Ormerod achieved this feat despite being sold to Southampton for a Blackpool club-record £1.75million in November.
Title: Blackpool
Content:  The town's professional football club is Blackpool F.C., who have spent 31 seasons in the top division and won the 1953 FA Cup Final. There are other, smaller football clubs located within Blackpool, including A.F.C. Blackpool, Blackpool Wren Rovers and Squires Gate.
Title: History of Blackpool F.C. (1962–present)
Content:  On 13 June 2019, 49-year-old local businessman Simon Sadler was announced as the club's new owner, ending the Oystons' 32-year tenure. On 5 July 2019, Terry McPhillips resigned as Blackpool's manager. He was succeeded by Simon Grayson, who returned to the role eleven years after leaving for Leeds United. He was sacked in February, six months into the season, and replaced by Neil Critchley, who became the club's 38th full-time manager in its 132-year history. At the end of the following campaign, Critchley's first full season in charge, Blackpool were promoted back to the second tier of English football, after a six-year absence, after winning the 2021 EFL League One play-off Final. It was Blackpool's sixth victory in a play-off final in eight such appearances.
Title: Blackpool F.C.
Content: Longest-serving manager: Joe Smith (22 years, 9 months; from 1 August 1935 to 30 April 1958) 
Title: 2011–12 Blackpool F.C. season
Content:  The 2011–12 season was Blackpool F.C.s first season back in the Football League Championship, the second tier of English professional football, after being relegated from the Premier League at the conclusion of 2010–11 campaign. It was their 103rd overall season in the Football League. It was Ian Holloway's third season as manager. The club finished the regular season in fifth position, thus qualifying them for the play-offs. They reached the final, in which they lost to West Ham 1–2. Kevin Phillips, in his first season at Blackpool, finished as the club's top scorer with seventeen goals (sixteen in the League).
Title: Blackpool F.C.
Content:  2–0 again in Cardiff. In the summer following the Trophy win, McMahon resigned, believing he could not take the club any further with the budget he was being offered. Colin Hendry became the new manager, but was replaced by Simon Grayson in November 2005 after an unsuccessful stint which left Blackpool languishing just above the relegation zone of League One (third tier). In the 2006–07 FA Cup Blackpool reached the fourth round for the first time in 17 years, after beating Aldershot Town 4–2 at Bloomfield Road, but were knocked out by Norwich City, 3–2 after a replay at Carrow Road. They 
Title: 1994–95 Blackpool F.C. season
Content:  The 1994–95 season was Blackpool F.C.'s 89th season (86th consecutive) in the Football League. They competed in the 24-team Division Two, then the third tier of English league football, finishing twelfth. Sam Allardyce replaced Billy Ayre as manager prior to the start of the season. Blackpool exited both domestic cup competitions at the first-round stage. Tony Ellis was the club's top league scorer, with seventeen goals. Mike Davies retired at the end of the season after eleven years of service for Blackpool, his only professional club. He subsequently moved into a coaching role at the club. Blackpool signed veteran goalkeeper Les Sealey from Manchester United before the season began, but he transferred back to the Premier League with a move to West Ham on 28 November.
Title: 2007–08 Blackpool F.C. season
Content:  The 2007–08 season was Blackpool F.C.'s 100th season (97th consecutive) in the Football League. It was their first season back in the second tier of English football in 29 years. They finished nineteenth, the club's highest-place finish in the Football League in 37 years. Ben Burgess was the club's top scorer, with ten goals overall. Blackpool set a new club record of twelve consecutive victories, carrying over from the end of the previous season, with 0–1 and 1–0 results over Leicester City and Huddersfield Town, respectively. At the end of the season, manager Simon Grayson released eleven players, most of whom had not featured in the first team this season, and on 30 May he confirmed that he wanted to sign at least six new players. He went on to sign twelve (including three on loan) before the start of the 2008–09 season.

Question: Verify the following claims with "True" or "False": The manager of A.F.C. Blackpool is a soccer player who played for Bury FC and currently for KV Mechelen.
Answer: True