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Maybe - but we do have bigger fish to fry. I'm keener to see Spurs and Liverpool fail these days. It's mainly the likes of Ho and co or drum-bothering nutters on Twitter who keep this thread going with their delusion. See how quiet it went when pompey kept it buttoned for a few days.

7) They are no longer our rivals, they are Eastleigh's.

Fan-owned! Just like Chelsea - and Southampton.

Can we introduce border controls on this thread to maintain a gap between it and other forum threads? This is a safe haven, a place where you can peddle hate against people up the road, rather than spit hatred at foreigners. It's also a good place to reflect quietly when hankie-wavers are going all drama queen and mincing about on match threads because it's only 0-0 and it costs a quid to park. We need tighter security measures on our borders, could we crowd fund a virtual fence?

This thread topped itself about two pages ago.

If Benteke is worth £32m then the Premier League proven goalscorer who leads the line for Italy must be worth about £55m. Another sound investment.

I think these images could be a game changer, perhaps in the way that the Ethiopian famine ones proved to be a pivotal moment. Social media seems to have a lot of people who have woken up to this crisis today, and I agree with them. Dead toddlers are washing up on the beach and our government says we can't help. All of the stats suggest we have turned our back on desperate people, our nation has crossed the road and left them to die while other countries have helped. That's not the England I'm proud of. We were better than that in the past and we should be better than that now. Germany is lecturing us on how to treat people who are different.... And the most embarrassing thing is, they are correct.

ever so slightly wrong... Hatch wins understatement of the decade!

I guess it's easier to get your youth team knocked out than take over 50,000 to Wembley and win the trophy. At least they can pretend they didn't try if they lose tonight - though I recall being told that their youth academy was the envy of the top four clubs.... Any big transfer news? Has the old woman changed mobility scooters? Are there new fence panels at the training ground? Or has there been further investment in a 2nd pack of ping pong balls?

Ronald has played a blinder with Wanyama, properly reminded him who is in charge. Nice. Now Vic needs to win back the trust of the fans and play his way back into the team, once his tummy feels better. As for Spurs - unlucky, let's hope Toby proves to be as good as Lovren is without the proper set-up in front.

Five year deal? Nice one. That is going to cost Liverpool £35m next summer!

That one lone racist must have found his way back in. Hopefully their nice fans pick him out, it should be easy as he'll have a pillow case on his head.

Score early, confidence reappears, comfortable win, panic over, life will be good. That's my plan anyway! So hold your nerve my jumpy friends, keep the faith, we've been in worse scrapes than this before.

They need us at the moment - so we need to give them 100% support, anything else would be insane. They deserved that reception at the end the other night and if they play poorly again they'll get it again. But to consider not offering them 100% support at kick off in a vital game?

I see they've already gently downgraded the problem from a section of the crowd in the family section to a lone offender. Nicely done! You'd have thought that one renegade idiot could have been picked out by the astonished crowd quite easily, I wonder why they weren't? Ten years ago a father and son were arrested at Fatpipes for racially-abusing their own keeper, during a home win. While many clubs and fans have changed, pompey seem to have retained an unsavoury element that wishes it was still 1970 - and what really sets them apart is they want everyone to know.

is it too early to start worrying about Norwich?

I'll just cut and paste this every six months for the benefit of the persistent few who refuse to accept facts - the attendance debate is over, we won - on all counts. The End. As for being the most passionatestic and having the most plucktitude, the jury is still out, but it's not looking good. The likes of Palace and Stoke have upped their games and left the struggling 4th tier minnows behind.

I'll be surprised if they beat 8,000 for the next round. While the big crowd last night proved too much for the visitors who clearly cracked under pressure in the hostile cauldron of passion at the fortress, there was an unsavoury issue that Reading are politely playing down. Some of the more special supporters in the South Stand were reported to the ref last night for targeting specific opposition players with language that's normally the preserve of the hip hop community. Presumably just a handful, but no normal club in 2015 should have anyone doing that.

Bring it on.

That could be a good plan for preventing players moving up, only buy players who have already failed at higher levels and are now so depressed they will play for realistic wages. Or kidnap their family members and produce ears/fingers occasionally to keep them on the bus.

As usual the obsessive and jealous Nutjobs only look for the negatives! You see a small damp patch, the rest of us see a beautiful, Championship-ready, fan-owned fence.

This delusion is the equivalent of Bucks Fizz claiming to be the biggest band in the world today and demanding to know why they aren't being offered international stadium gigs and headlining slots at Glastonbury. Everyone loves plucky pompey, and everyone hates scummahs. In reality - everyone has forgotten about pompey, they love Bournemouth as the media darlings of the month and many like us for our feel-good factor return from League One, our development of players and the way we go about things off the pitch - and the fact that we (try!) to play football the correct way. But if you say it enough times a portsmyth becomes true. The only positive is that it's deluded fantasy statements like those above that fuel this thread. If they just zipped it and accepted that they are no longer relevant and that football doesn't even care where they are, this thread would gently cease.

Just heard their manager on Solent. He sounds like a growling comedian doing the northern clubs on speed circa 1978. wouldn't say the mother-in-law is fat but.....

But at least they are still equal top when the table is seasonally adjusted.

You can get three season tickets at fatpipes, total cost £400. Their gates are dwarfing others, their matchday income is clearly not. And I would see a difference between a billionaire gambling on promotion against a charity consortium that includes smalltime property developers who get the bucket out if they need a fence.