bender

Im sure out support was 44,000 though although we could have easily sold more.

Lets just seewhat happens next week. West Ham could be 3 points behind us before we play next. That said, we could be going into the BPool game knowing a win puts us 12 pts clear of 3rd.

If Wham dont win on Tuesday then were up for my money If they do only draw on Tuesday and beat Reading on Saturday, they go 2nd which will be a huge boost for them. This would put us 5 points ahead of both of them going into the evening game at Blackpool. It is possible for us not to go up but there are so many ifs that would have to happen, I just cant see it, especially with Readings remaining away games.

reading 3 - 1 bah

and what a humdinger it was. Watching it on a stream.

Got a feeling at least one of Reading and Wham will drop points tomorrow. Wham also play in the week but when Wham and Reading meet next Saturday and one of them obviously drops points, we'll put everything into Blackpool and will be in an amazing position with 6 games to go. All ifs and buts but we're the team thats playing the best football and I really believe that Reading & Wham will be fighting it out for 2nd soon.

When were promoted with 5 games to go, give him a run out for 5 games.

For me we are going to power to the Prem with many games to spare. I'm certain Reading or Wham will now seriously lose form. In 2 or 3 games time we could be pretty much there bearing in mind both team need to eclipse us for us not to go up.

I would have been happy if we'd stayed top 2 after these last 2 games, and weve masively extended our lead. We could easily extend our lead further this Sat and then when we do have a tough game, the others play each other. Really think we could get this done and dusted weeks before the end of the season.

For one of the other teams to get 2nd, both Reading and Wham would have to have to slip big style making us clear champions.

how on earth have boro not made it 2 - 1

and posh 3 - 1 OMG !!!!

get in Boro !!!

wtf at Leeds 3 - 5

We are f*cking going up

skates level

although under the cosh a bit, I feel more confident than I did on Saturday.

Wham's woes at home come from dominating matches, failing to score and then the crowd get on top of them. Just whats happening now.

posh in front yey

Anyone else worried this will be the opposite to Millwall & leeds games and we wont win despite easily deserving to.

Would love that considering my location. Be nice to go to a tense game at Wembley without being emotionally attached to it.

I'm not sure we'll be one of the teams going straight back down. We've got enough class and financial backing. You have to look at Stoke, WBA, Swansea, Norwich etc etc. Our team will be stregthened and we will be playing better football albeit against better football teams, but that makes for better entertainment. You'll be seeing players at SMS that you regularly see on the tellybox. In the past weve beaten the big sides at home on regular occasions. If we go up, we'll be there for the long haul and the experience on match days will be far better. The best bit of course will be at half time when the HT scores come over the loud speaker system "Crawley 3 Portsmouth 0"

No one would ever claim the Merson was inteligent and ever prided himself on being as accurate as he possibly could. But the man is hilarious. We werent complaining when he said we were as good as Barcelona when we beat Oldham 6 nil last season, or when he said we should be in the Champions league when we won at Ipswich I think earlier this season, although clearly we all know were not that good. I loved his honesty when Pompey were going through the myer the first time round (2010). "no one buys Portsmouth shirts in Liverpool so why the ek are they paying players 60 grand a week." "Its like a poker match but instead of throwing in your car keys you throw in Portsmouth FC" was another. Its an entertainment business. Commentators like Motty and Parry seem to be clued up with all the facts but just bore me, unlike Tyler who gets hillariously excited at times.

If he is an example of Wham fans then Saints have a clear advantage over them. Their fans just add to the pressure on the players. He's putting in the daggers before theyve even lost today.

and dont forget last season there were 3 teams (posh, Huds & us) going for one promotion spot. Brighton already had the top spot sewn up. This season there are 3 going for two.