Pompey’s Time is Running Out
Posted on | August 24, 2009 | No Comments
It’s now Monday night and this summer’s second proposed takeover of Portsmouth Football Club still hasn’t been announced. The way things have gone so far this year, the collapse of Peter Storrie’s rescue plan is perhaps inevitable, but there won’t be time for a third. This is it. Last chance saloon.
Since I last wrote, there have been two more matches, both of which confirmed our worst suspicions. Namely that this team is going down. It still has a few good players, but not enough. Piquionne looks decent, but is being asked to make everything happen up front on his own, with no help from midfield. Our central midfield is just not good enough. Our most creative player looks like he would rather be somewhere else and is only effective in a good team. But most of all, the morale of the whole club is at rock bottom as a result of Sulaiman Al Fahim’s botched takeover.
We looked reasonably solid at the back against Birmingham, but of course the inevitable happened at the death, as it always does when your team carries no real goal threat. Against Arsenal, the team put out was bizarrely the most attacking we have seen all season and looked as much. But at the back we were woeful at times, notwithstanding the primary problem of the non-existent closing down in midfield. If the rescue plan doesn’t roll into action very, very soon, this can only end one way. We wait…
Tags: Arsenal > Frederic Piquionne > Peter Storrie > Pompey > Portsmouth > Sulaiman Al Fahim
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