Blackpool stalwart Keith Southern says their promotion to the Premiership should benefit everyone connected to the club.

Weeks after their Wembley playoff triumph, he is still just as delighted to have helped the Seasiders back to the top flight for the first time since the days when Jimmy Armfield was still turning out at right back.

Southern told the Blackpool Gazette: "It's absolutely frightening. We have done something this club hasn't done for 40 years.

"We have achieved something not many in this life get to achieve and it is just such an honest, hard-working group of players that they deserve everything they get.

"There is not one ego or big-time Charlie in the dressing room and it is just fantastic for the football club to do what it did.

"Everybody will benefit - the players, the club and the whole area.

"Tourism will improve and so will business because we are a Premier League football club now.

"It is a fantastic prospect for the area really."