Jamie O’Hara, Kevin Prince Boateng, and…Aruna Dindane
Just thought I’d contrast those three names with yesterday’s trio! I’m not saying they are world beaters or even top half Premier League regulars, but I’d say they give us a fighting chance, and that’s all Portsmouth fans have wanted for the past few weeks. Michael Brown and Tommy Smith now look better signings than [...]
Portsmouth v Fulham – Premier League 2008/09
Despite some dramatic twists regarding the takeover at the Portsmouth Radio Solent fans’ forum on Thursday night, I want to concentrate on the football at last, as the Premier League season gets underway at Fratton Park today.
Fulham obviously had a good season last time out and will probably set up much the same way this [...]
High Noon in Portsmouth All Week
I’m not even going to try and predict the outcome of the Portsmouth takeover, which has now reached epic proportions, but surely something has to give this week?! With that in mind, today’s blog outlines some of the recent and potential developments without pretending for a second to have the faintest idea how things will turn out!
First, [...]
Portsmouth – First Division Champions 2002/03
As it appears Portsmouth fans will not end up with the takeover we all wanted, I feel the need to lighten the mood!
We still have weeks of off the pitch events ahead of us, even after the takeover is fully completed, so I thought I’d concentrate on the football side of things. The Premier League is undoubdedly the place to [...]
Portsmouth – Champions of England (again!) 1949/50
In a follow up to yesterday’s account of Portsmouth’s first Championship triumph, here is the story of the retaining of the title the following season. Once again, much is taken from Colin Farmery’s account of those glory years.
There were few changes to the Championship winning team, Portsmouth’s books actually revealing a credit balance on transfers [...]
Portsmouth – Champions of England 1948/49
With D Day (or ‘Dr Al Fahim Day’) looming this week (or maybe next week), I can’t help day-dreaming about what Portsmouth Football Club might look like in five years’ time.
If I allow this dreaming to take the form of hope rather than expectation, then I can see a long term project allowing the club to be [...]
Portsmouth Promotion Season 1986/87
As I write I am looking at a huge Portsmouth poster on my office wall at home. It is a team picture. Not of the FA Cup winning side of 2008. Or of the Championship winning side of 2003. Not even of the FA Cup semi finalists of 1992. The poster shows my real heroes, [...]
Middlesbrough v Portsmouth – 26th February 1992
Another classic match for you today, from Portsmouth’s famous FA Cup run of 1992. We were eventually to reach the semi final against Liverpool, of course, and were hugely unlucky not to make the final itself.
But I think the best game in the entire run that year was the fifth round replay at Ayresome Park against [...]
Portsmouth Takeover to be Complete by July 11th
Now, I realise there are no guarantees, but let’s just read that one more time…..PORTSMOUTH TAKEOVER TO BE COMPLETE BY JULY 11TH. Doesn’t that sound great?!
Unfortunately, it seems to have come too late to stop Glen Johnson leaving us for Liverpool, but if we believe what we have been told, his transfer is nothing to [...]
Robert Prosinecki at Portsmouth
Last year, Portsmouth won the FA Cup. 250,000 of us went down to Southsea common the next day to welcome home our heroes. It was the club’s biggest success for nearly 60 years. But I think if you ask any Pompey fan, Prosinecki’s time at Portsmouth is something that provokes a response almost as strong!
Prosinecki [...]