Soccer-Blackpool fan protest leads to abandonment

LONDON, May 2 (Reuters) - Blackpool's game with Huddersfield Town on Saturday was abandoned in the 48th minute after fans of the relegated Championship side invaded the pitch in protest against the club's owners, the Oyston family.

With the scores locked at 0-0 shortly after halftime, hundreds of fans entered the pitch forcing referee Mick Russell to take the players off and, after an hour's delay, the match was abandoned.

The angered fans released flares and chanted towards the Oyston family in their director's box.

Before the match 2,000 Blackpool supporters protested -- for the second time in a month -- outside their Bloomfield Road Stadium at the culmination of a dismal season in which the…