OldNick

i think some of your points are valid. Pompey for most of my life were just another Rochdale in the eyes of the media. Then came the great escape under Ball when you looked as though you going to be relegated to the old 3rd?division . To be fair to your support , the constant beating of the drum, bell and trumpet seemed to galvanise the team and you stayed up on the last day. Because you had only a small crowd at that time and in the main all joined in it caught on and when things started to improve the JCL's joined in as well. You got promotion and the media started to feed the stereotypical 'great fans' Stoke City have now taken over as the 'Greatest fans' in the medias eyes and as time goes by you will be the club that cheated but have a small core of great fans. The stadium you have is ideal to create a hostile atmosphere, but you are now finding that players in the lower leagues are used to poor facilities and so are not as intimidated as the big clubs were. The Dell is well recorded as the ground the big teams didnt like visiting for very much the same reason FP did. We moved and it has taken nearly 10 years for fans to realise that SMS is intimidating and creates tremendous atmospheres. I think of all games I have ever been to at home, Norwich in our relegation season was immense, the noise was incredible, some of the 'derby' games as well. The media always like the weirdos, just look at any pre-match preamble and the cameras outside the grounds are always looking for the village idiot to talk to, all clubs have them. Of course you are the world leaders in that, as you have made your biggest one the face of Portsmouth. Now you are back in the lower leagues your column inches are negligible and the 'bestest fans' tag is diminishing as you fade away. IMO Saints are not a big club, but they are the biggest in the South coast, and have been for decades. There was a tipping point under Hr, then if you had got your ground things may have been different. You spent your future on having a cup final team and unfortunately for you that does not mean much when you are broke and needed to be sold.

have you given your mate Tony Lynham ,'who is the real deal' a call. he will take you to the promised land I can assure you of that

Reading won the league by a canter, according to Appleton lol. At first i thought he was quite a good manager but as time goes on he seems to have headed far too many footballs

it is about time you let your love of GH go. Your postings are getting much like the character in Alan Partridge where he had a shrine to him and freaked Partridge out

I cant recall him commenting on this when his beloved Pompey got saved by it. We will happily accept it when/if the time comes.

BC is pulling the wool over the FL's eyes, not that it takes much! That statement was brilliantly put together by a PR company, telling the Pompey hoards (!) how great they are etc etc and not to be scared of the big bad wolf. It also alludes to the fact that they will not be spending much on the squad, so how he will put a team out that competes on a low budget and still keep the 'loyal fans' turning up is a bit of a trick

very sad, he was good on the TV

i dont recall the howlers in the Brentford game, i do recall a couple in his early days and others spread around the seasons. To expect a keeper in the 3rd /2nd/1st tier of football never to make a mistake , to command a penalty area etc etc is fanciful. I watched Evertons Howard let a goal in last night that if it had been KD many would have said he should have stopped it. Shilton is probably the best keeper I have seen play for us, and he was useless at taking crosses and never saved penalties, his distribution was questionable as well, but one thing is for certain he saved us a lot more points than he lost us. The top PL keepers have fantastic defences in front of them and so dont get the pressure the weaker teams do. It is a team package, but KD is looking his age and has lost something.

I am not defending KD for this season as i have stated that he does not seem to be up to it. The sad thing is that there have always been some fans on here sitting in the shadows waiting to pull the knife. They kept quiet as he made match winning performances but waiting to pounce as soon as this dip in form came. i dont think many of them have ever kicked a ball, or if so never played any sport to a decent level because if they had they would realise the jump in standard by even a league is immense. I see a poster on here trying to say that KD should have saved RVP first.' if only he had moved his knee a bit it would have been saved' Lol I watched the great Pat jennings and he was a boyhood hero, he would come out and catch the ball one handed, but that was when the balls were leather and heavy and didnt do much in the air, nowadays the ball moves around and so it is hard to dominate the areas. I had said that KD be given his chance as he had done so much for the club and should be given the respect he deserves, it has not panned out well and so if NA decides to change him then I will not complain. Craig Gordon is the new Blayney,Smith, Wright,Moss etc etc who were the next kings who could easily replace Niemi/KD over the years, where are they now. Finally if KD had left 2 seasons ago IMO we would not now be in the PL.

ive seen some nonsense on here but this post is in the top 2. KD has been voted the top keeper by his piers for the last 2 seasons, it is sad tha5t such a great loyal servant is being treated with so little respect by 'fans'

you were wrong then, but at this moment in time KD does not seem up to it this season

I was not at the game but Morgan looked to be loping around and did not seem at all aggresive in his tackling before the first goal

i thought it was a great jesture by those 2 and I wouldnt criticise the fans for applauding and showing their respect back.

i noticed that in the post match interviews that NA has mentioned him learning as well. The decision to take off our best players against Man u may be the watershed, I suspect the players would have lost a bit of confidence in him then

I have supported KD in the past but this season he seems to have a complex that he is not good enough. He seems to have lost the spark that made him so good in the past. I said he should be given his chance for all e has done for us, but he may need to be rested. To be fair though, apart from Clyne the whole defence is poor. As for Fox!!!!!

yeah but 20,000 of them were at Lords, it was a 3 o'clock kick off on a saturday afternoon when they are normally servicing their mother and sisters, it wasn't live on Sky and the distance they have to travel

He is such a miracle worker he hasn't had a job in years lol. His status and experience would never let a 3 goal lead slip against a division 1 team, or against Man u in 45 minutes...........oh

the lad on the bottom right corner has the PL badge on his shirt, I think they are not easy to get

it just shows that when PFC are gone for good that the Skates children, grand children and great grandchildren will be saints fans. of course some will be ingrained to hate us , but much like before the 70's fans from both clubs did not hesitate going to support their local neighbours. It seems sensible but with football rivalry nothing is sensible

Thanks I did not see that. As you are aware i feel the Fl will do anything to keep them alive . PFC and the administrators seem to be living of this for sometime. The FL etc have been helping them time and again I feel they may change the rules to help.it seems the threat of liquidation send tremors through the league and so they move their position to stop it happening.

100% I dont wish for Adkins to be sacked but if he carries on doing the most ridiculous and reckless substituions of our best players with 15minutes to go he deserves to lose his job. That decicion has already cost us at least 1 precious point this season.

The FL holding things up, it wouldn't be that BC is demanding the -10 be quashed I presume

well she has no integrity as if she really believed it was wrong, she should have blown the whistle

The accept and move on, was regarding the apology from the Sun, not the tragedy. My wording obviously made that unclear. I have every sympathy for the innocent victims and it makes me sad to see children as young as 5 died. They were not drunk and urinating on policemen but excited going to a football match. The same could be said for the victims of Hysel who i never seem to hear about from the Liverpool people. The cover up is extraordinary but Iam not totally surprised and would expect many more events have been covered up under all political parties over the years. The Iraq war and Dr David kellys death has always seemed strange and unusual. Let the top brass of the Police who covered this up, as well as the top men of the Police federation get prosecuted. Who by now would be living their dotage on big pensions.

seems the FL did indeed bend over to save them again