I'll be leaving him as he is until FM11 if indeed he does sign.
I haven't seen him play so have nothing to base it on until the summer so it would be as the Coventry researcher rates him for the January update.
Lets talk about living memory. Take the last 50 years...
From 1960 to 2005 Saints were the better side = 45 years
From 2005 to 2010 Pompey were the better side = 5 years
Go back further....
From 1885 when Saints were formed until 1920 Saints were the better side = 31 years (22 years really as Pompey were formed 13 years after Saints)(minus 4 years for WWI)
From 1920 to 1960 Pompey were the better side = 34 years (minus 6 years for WWII)
Grand total
Pompey on top for = 39 years
Saints on top for = 76 years (63 years, really as Pompey were formed 13 years after Saints)
Give it another 2 or 3 years and balance on the South coast will be restored.
It would have been more densely filled in the stand the cameras were in which you couldn't see.
Just like at St Mary's, the Kingland always looks fuller than the Itchen due to lack of corporates.
Coventry have about 7 professional centre backs. It seems Chris Coleman likes buying them, so Ward hasn't been on the bench much so don't read anything into that.
Odd that neither club has said anything. Could just be that the person incharge of the Sky info bar jumped the gun and just misunderstood this article from yesterday...
http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,11710_5853265,00.html