Pompey Cut Ticket Prices
A very brief comment today on Pompey’s decision to cut ticket prices for eight home games this season. An intelligent decision by the club.
The games in question are Wigan, Burnley, Birmingham, Sunderland, Stoke, Hull, Blackburn and Wolves. Adult tickets have been cut to £20 in the Milton End, and £30 in the wings of the [...]
Transfer Window Finally Shuts for Portsmouth
The summer’s finally over (nothing to miss about it, is there?!), and things at Portsmouth are now at least clear (managerial issues aside) until January. It ended up being a frantic transfer window, with all the activity by necessity crammed into the last week. The general consensus is that given events off the pitch, the squad is now as strong [...]
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 [...]
Tommy Smith, Mike Williamson, and…Michael Brown
These are the transfer targets Portsmouth fans now seemingly have to endure. I say endure because whilst I obviously have nothing against these players personally (except Michael Brown, but more of this later), they are clearly not Premier League quality players. This is all the more unbelievable given that our long awaited takeover went through just yesterday. I [...]
Al Fahim Finally Becomes New Owner of Portsmouth
Well, you couldn’t make it up! Just as it seemed that Peter Storrie was about to blindside Portsmouth Football Club’s erstwhile prospective owner, Sulaiman Al Fahim, the tables were turned at the last minute! Typical of the club itself and indeed the events of this summer. The worry is that it appears the way the deal [...]
Aruna Dindane Signs for Portsmouth
And we are 3-0 up against Hereford United at half time! But with things the way they are at the moment, ANYTHING positive is worth clinging on to. At least it shows that Pompey have gone about their job tonight the way they should. However, it is the teeniest tiniest positive. We are playing Hereford United. It’s not the [...]
Pompey’s Time is Running Out
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 [...]
McCann and Shittu for Portsmouth?
I’m sorry, I don’t care if this has been used a million times before, but the name just about sums it up doesn’t it? Portsmouth’s latest targets are uninspiring to say the least. Ironically, Shittu is the one that makes more sense to me, but that doesn’t mean I rate him at all!
OK, so we [...]
Portsmouth 0 Fulham 1
The goal pretty much said it all at the moment. Portsmouth were toothless up front and rarely looked threatening and central midfield was packed with destroyers with all the creativity of training cones (albeit with inadequate support from the more skilful wide players), but the defence actually looked solid. A 0-0 draw would have been a [...]
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 [...]