Birmingham City loaned goalkeeper Bailey Peacock-Farrell to Blackpool during the summer transfer window
Bailey Peacock-Farrell (centre) has won his place back in the Northern Ireland team
Bailey Peacock-Farrell feels criticism of his sticky start to life in Blackpool was unfair.
The Birmingham City goalkeeper joined the Tangerines on loan in July and made some costly mistakes in the opening weeks of the season.
Peacock-Farrell put his poor start down to being ‘undercooked’ after a pre-season which saw him quickly cast aside by Blues manager Chris Davies.
“I genuinely believed it was wrong,” he said of that criticism. “I thought it was quite harsh to a certain extent. I had confidence that I was doing the right things in training and the games were just unfortunate.”
Peacock-Farrell endured a similarly difficult start to his Blues career last year and Davies swiftly replaced him with Ryan Allsop who went on to win the League One Golden Glove.
Blackpool have kept faith with the 29-year-old and his form has improved to such an extent in recent weeks that he is line to start for Northern Ireland in their double-header against Slovakia and Luxembourg.
“I feel like the last six, seven games have just been building and building and finding that real nice flow and that kind of rhythm state that goalkeeping’s all about,” he said.
“I feel I’m in a really good position at the moment and coming back to club football put me in good stead for these games in the footballing calendar.”
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