Title: A.F.C. Blackpool
Content:   A.F.C. Blackpool is a football club based in Blackpool, Lancashire, England. The club currently play in the. Based at Jepson Way, they are nicknamed The Mechanics or The Mechs, and are full members of the Lancashire County Football Association.
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: 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
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: Blackpool F.C.
Content: Longest-serving manager: Joe Smith (22 years, 9 months; from 1 August 1935 to 30 April 1958) 
Title: A.F.C. Blackpool
Content:  the club. As champions of Division One in 2010–11, they were promoted to the Premier Division. On 21 March 2015 some Blackpool fans boycotting their match with Leeds in protest at chairman Karl Oyston's management of the club decided to attend AFC Blackpool's match against Bootle. The game saw an attendance of 503 compared with an average of 35 that season; some Leeds fans also attended the match as part of a combined general protest "against the Football League." The club were relegated to the North West Counties League First Division at the end of the 2015–16 season, in which they finished bottom of the table.
Title: Blackpool F.C.
Content:  best-ever start to a league season. Their victory at AFC Bournemouth on 14 September 2013 gave them 16 points out of a possible 18. The sequence of results was two wins, a draw, and three wins. This was countered by a run of nine defeats in 10 games, which resulted in Ince being sacked on 21 January 2014, 11 months into his tenure. Barry Ferguson was named caretaker manager upon Ince's dismissal. Of Ferguson's 20 league games in charge, Blackpool won just three and finished the 2013–14 season in 20th place. On 11 June 2014, almost five months after Paul Ince's dismissal, the club appointed 
Title: History of Blackpool F.C. (1887–1962)
Content: This is a history of Blackpool Football Club from 1887 to 1962. For their history between 1962 and the present day, see History of Blackpool F.C. (1962–present). For the club's season-by-season stats, see Blackpool F.C. seasons.   The history of Blackpool Football Club between 1887 and 1962 covers the years from the club's foundation, via a split from another Blackpool-based club; the period of nine years before they gained membership to the Football League; their recovery after losing their League status after only three seasons; and finally their rise into Division One, which was then the top tier of English football. Aside from the League, Blackpool also appeared in three FA Cup Finals in six years, finding success in their third attempt, in 1953. The same year, the club supplied the England team with four players for an international game against Hungary. Between 1903 and 1962, Blackpool had nine different managers, with Joe Smith occupying the role for 23 of those 59 years. Prior to 1903, team selections were made by the board.
Title: History of Blackpool F.C. (1887–1962)
Content:  Stoke City. There had been many changes, with Hugh Kelly, Brian Snowdon and Peter Smethurst, a South African import who did not make the grade, all leaving. No less than eight players made their debuts for the club this season, amongst them Glyn James, a future Wales international; Gordon West, who shared goalkeeping duties with Tony Waiters; Ray Parry; and Leslie Lea. Ron Suart's tenure as manager looked in some danger. The Blackpool fans had now turned on him, especially after a 6–2 defeat at Second Division Scunthorpe United in the FA Cup. A home attendance fell below 10,000 
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 

Question: Verify the following claims with "True" or "False": The manager of A.F.C. Blackpool is a soccer player. In the past he played for Chesterfield FC. and Stockport County FC.
Answer: True