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 [...]
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 [...]
Crouch Set to Leave Portsmouth
After a few enforced days off, I am back, but what the hell is going on?! Just as the protracted takeover of Portsmouth FC by Dr Sulaiman Al Fahim seems to be nearing completion, many of the players are either clamouring for the exit door or being pushed towards it.
It looks inevitable that Peter Crouch will [...]
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 [...]
Oxford United v Portsmouth – 3rd November 1992
I am refusing to be drawn into The Sun’s ‘Pompeygate’ debate! Well, they’re trying to create a debate (and much worse) around the Portsmouth takeover, but the substance of their stories so far lends itself more to the name ‘Drivelgate’. So let’s just ignore them until the deal’s done.
A couple of weeks ago, I featured [...]
Portsmouth Takeover Wait
As the due diligence process continues this week, the issue of player retention and/or departure, and the identity of Portsmouth’s next manager is reduced to little more than a guessing game. An article which sums this up nicely is on the Portsmouth section of The Rivals website and is attached below:
Steve Bruce to be new [...]
Portsmouth See Out Season in the Wigan Sunshine
Wigan Athletic 1 Portsmouth 0
In truth, we should have known what was coming. It has been like this for weeks but at least the grind is now over. The job has been done. Portsmouth are set to kick off their seventh successive season in the Premier League and for that we should be grateful, but [...]
Portsmouth Spared ‘Survival Sunday’ (aka Last Day of the Season)
We Portsmouth fans know the torture of last day drama. Luckily the last three occasions at home against Barnsley in 2001, and away at Bradford City and Huddersfield Town in 1998 and 1996 respectively, have all been successful, although it was actually other results that confirmed Pompey’s safety on the most recent of those occasions. The ‘Great Escape’ season [...]
Second half show lifts Portsmouth
Portsmouth 3 Sunderland 1
John Utaka was Portsmouth’s unlikely hero as he scored once and made the two others in a 3-1 win at Fratton Park in last night’s Premier League encounter. A dire first half gave way to a pulsating second, and once Utaka had brought Pompey level within a minute of Sunderland taking the [...]