Pompey Takeover Saga

Skates now singing "and we sent the scummers down"

 

 

errrr....

Do they call Crystal Palace 'the scummers' now? Must have missed that one.

Anyway, they were one of only 6 teams we managed to beat that season.

Only just got in and watched 10 minutes. Christ the standard is hard to watch. 2 of my skate mates don't go anymore because they said the quality wasn't good enough to pay for. I took the **** but they weren't wrong.

Hashtag Portsmyths

I still remember that game, final day of the season, Southampton vs Portsmouth, with us needing just a draw to stay up, and them in 1st place in the Prem. The Fratton heroes had sold out our ground, all 32,000, but it was also half empty as we had stolen most of tickets back, and given them away for free to asylum seekers. The Noble warriors proceeded to smash us 20-0, while the 3 best players to ever live, Thierry Henry, AC Milan and Paul Merson, cheered on the bestest fans in world football from the sidelines.While Liam sold tickets for the after-party

But then the Corrupt conspiracy of the FA and the Referees decided to punish them twice for the same crime, by altering the official (but not common knowledge) records, and altering everybody's memory of the events through military tech disguised as goal-line technology. Now only a few Independent thinkers at Fortress Fratton remember the true course of events.

It's the hope that'll kill them.

2-2 FT.

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Skates now singing "and we sent the scummers down"

 

 

errrr....

They are odd.

I bet Sunderland won't be singing about sending Newcastle down in 2 years time let alone 11 years time. And they actually won a game they sent them down. Unlike them lot.

To be fair, Plymouth were not in it 2nd half. Could have been worse for them.

Don't forget that they walloped us so badly we had points deducted and they were awarded 10 points for showing the footballing world just how the beautiful game should be played. The result was Saints missing out on promotion to the Premier League and was enough to keep them up. Then, we used our black box technology to fiddle with the mainframe and insert ourselves into the Premier League and them in League 1. No-one except our plucky beautify scented neighbours noticed due to some sort of diversion tactic involving a whale in a bikini and a bandstand full of 3-fingered mutants.

They seem delighted with that result? I think they've got it all to do now.

So they are jointly ahead going into the second leg then - advantage pompey!

A draw or a virtual defeat at Home Park will take them to Wembley.

Probably.

Apparently the Plymouth coaching team had a right kick-off with adjacent supporters the other week so it could get tasty tonight.

Not West Ham tasty, but I'd be surprised if the evening is incident-free.

You weren't wrong there, Paul Wotton and Cook sent to the stands within 15 minutes (and a dodgy looking headbutt thing by one of Plymouth's eventual scorers unpunished).

Skates now singing "and we sent the scummers down"

 

 

errrr....

Still winds me up that they think that West Brom result had anything to do with us going down. Fingers crossed Plymouth can do the job on Sunday, could make for a cracking day of football if we qualify for Europe.

What is it with them and employing absolutely brain dead managers? It is quite astonishing.

Do they call Crystal Palace 'the scummers' now? Must have missed that one.

 

 

Anyway, they were one of only 6 teams we managed to beat that season.

Yes indeed, and with Wigley in charge, no less. If we'd averaged the same number of points against other teams as we got in the 2 matches against them, we'd have stayed up comfortably (actually top half). Oh, and we beat them in the cup that year.

Anyway, they did get the last laugh. As they keep reminding us, Norris's world famous last gasp equaliser deprived us of promotion in 2012, and also saved them from relegation that year. The pain of that will never go away.

Still winds me up that they think that West Brom result had anything to do with us going down. Fingers crossed Plymouth can do the job on Sunday, could make for a cracking day of football if we qualify for Europe.

Why does it wind you up? It's hilarious.

They forget that season we knocked them out of the FA cup. And the only win Steve Wigley ever got as manager for us was against them in that season.

The table doesn't lie, as they say. We finished 2 points behind West Brom. Had we won the last game we'd have stayed up. Our destiny was in our own hands. We sent ourselves down.

But they'll never ever accept it because, ya know, Portsmyth.

According to the beeb " the Portsmouth midfielder made a bit of a meal of it "

Well, he was about a foot shorter than Matt, who sort of kinda nudge-nutted him a bit, then the Skate walked around holding his head and "checking for blood" he knew definitely wasn't there for a good minute or two when the ref was looking at him. I doubt they'll bother to retrospective it, it's the L2 Playoffs, no-one's watching. Well, I was, until we put Hollyoaks and yesterday's Eastenders on.

Re: colour clash, yeah, it's not like the dark green and white stripes clashes, but the FL's stupid shorts clash rules force teams to change kits more than necessary and they'll take any chance to try and flog an away kit.

How sad that they still take pleasure in something that

 

DIDN'T

 

happen a long time ago and anyway....who the f*** is laughing now?

If we'd have beaten Man U on the last day we'd have stayed up and their result against West Brom would have been irrelevant. Man U sent us down, no-one else.

Only just got in and watched 10 minutes. Christ the standard is hard to watch. 2 of my skate mates don't go anymore because they said the quality wasn't good enough to pay for. I took the **** but they weren't wrong.

There was plenty of good football at Fratton when Newport stuck 3 on them a few months back.

Re: first leg - I did say they couldn't create anything - one Plymouth player giving the ball away on the edge of the box and one penalty. 2-2 isn't the worst result for them as Plymouth will need to score and might get picked off. Or it could be a really dull 0-0 and go all the way to penalties - but there's usually a defensive error or 6 in L2 somewhere.

The skates are the better footballing side, no doubt about it, but if Plymouth can just put in a few more crosses at home park, that looks a real weakness for the fish ****ers.

Biggest problem with the second leg is that it's at 6pm, AFTER the Saints game, and on a Sunday evening, so I'll either be so ****ed I won't care, or more likely I'll be sober and home steeling myself for work the next day.

The skates are the better footballing side, no doubt about it, but if Plymouth can just put in a few more crosses at home park, that looks a real weakness for the fish ****ers.

From seeing Plymouth twice earlier in the season (away to Notts County and away to Newport) they looked like exactly the same sort of side as the Skates, lots of quick dribbling but no particular passing creativity. Then again at the time Plymouth were top. Plus as I may have mentioned I saw 22nd placed Newport win by 3 goals at Fratton, so...

Few skate players the wrong side of 30 who may find the second game on Sunday hard going.

If we'd have beaten Man U on the last day we'd have stayed up and their result against West Brom would have been irrelevant. Man U sent us down, no-one else.

Yes, and given our loss, if instead of rolling over and losing they had instead beaten WBA 20-0, we still would've gone down.

Yes, and given our loss, if instead of rolling over and losing they had instead beaten WBA 20-0, we still would've gone down.

Lots of teams contributed to our relegation. Pompey were however one of the few teams we actually beat that season though.

We were relegated because we were crap. We certainly didn't need any helpful push from any other teams.

Now, now you lot need to give up on it. You cannot push against the inevitable tide of history and FACT

Now if little Timmy skate wants to say he sent us down you all be kind and let him play in his little dream world

From seeing Plymouth twice earlier in the season (away to Notts County and away to Newport) they looked like exactly the same sort of side as the Skates, lots of quick dribbling but no particular passing creativity. Then again at the time Plymouth were top. Plus as I may have mentioned I saw 22nd placed Newport win by 3 goals at Fratton, so...

If you just take yesterdays game in isolation, you'd say that the skates pass it on the deck and Plymouth hoof up to the big man. All that matters is though is who wins and if Plymouth can bully their back four a little more I can see them getting the goals they need. The skates new loan keeper had a bit of mare in the first half but went untested in the second.

If you just take yesterdays game in isolation, you'd say that the skates pass it on the deck and Plymouth hoof up to the big man. All that matters is though is who wins and if Plymouth can bully their back four a little more I can see them getting the goals they need. The skates new loan keeper had a bit of mare in the first half but went untested in the second.

Unusually both Pompey and Plymouth have (slightly) better away records than home so if anything Pompey have the advantage in the second match.

Unusually both Pompey and Plymouth have (slightly) better away records than home so if anything Pompey have the advantage in the second match.

Commentator said last night Plymouth have the best home record in the league and Skates the best away record.

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I seem to recall going down to the Corrugated Cardboard Cabin in April 1976, a couple of weeks before the FA Cup Final, and in a game where a young Steve Williams made his debut, Mick Channon's goal in a 1-0 Saints win confirmed P****y's relegation to Division 3.

I went with a couple of mates and we had to stand on what was then the north terrace as the Milton End was packed with Saints fans. This was after the police had escorted us past a seething, foaming Fratton End.

Channon's goal was quite late in the game and we had to stifle our cheers.

It was nice to know that while we were heading off to the Cup Final and glory, they finished rock-bottom of Division Two were beginning their painful slide down an unvarnished banister with no pants on, to their first spell in English football's lowest tier.

Although they survived in Division 3 in 1976-77 by the skin of their teeth, they finished bottom of Division 3 and fell through the trapdoor into Division Four in 1977-78 - the same year we were promoted back to the old First Division.

So I think we can argue that on that April night in 1976, we pulled out the first jenga brick that brought their house down all the way to Division 4.

If memory of the table serves me correctly their appalling display at West Brom relegated Palace - but it's ancient history.

We have future internationals in our academy system who weren't born then.

Meanwhile the local media spoon-feeds toothless simpletons the version of last night that they demand -

Pompey seized control, roared on by a packed Fratton Park

Commentator said last night Plymouth have the best home record in the league and Skates the best away record.

I think he's got that wrong, according to this anyway http://www.football.co.uk/league-tables/league-2/

Plymouth have a slightly better away record than Pompey and clubs like Northampton and Bristol have the best home records.

I think he's got that wrong, according to this anyway http://www.football.co.uk/league-tables/league-2/

 

Plymouth have a slightly better away record than Pompey and clubs like Northampton and Bristol have the best home records.

It doesn't surprise me.

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I think he's got that wrong, according to this anyway http://www.football.co.uk/league-tables/league-2/

 

Plymouth have a slightly better away record than Pompey and clubs like Northampton and Bristol have the best home records.

Pompey have the bestest away record not the best. It cannot be recorded in mundane stats like wins, points or goals.

Not to mention that they take hundreds of thousands to every away game. It's a Football League and Sky conspiracy to make sure they lose in the playoffs so they can sustain the income of the other teams in League 2.

It's a Football League and Sky conspiracy to make sure they lose in the playoffs so they can sustain the income of the other teams in League 2.

Solent read out this, off a tweet, last night.

Was it you?

Solent read out this, off a tweet, last night.

 

Was it you?

No but I've seen it posted on POL many times this season and therefore it must be 1000% true.

http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/news/crime/pompey-fan-arrested-at-fratton-park-in-play-off-leg-1-7381420

Yet another racist skate.

I know they're not the most tolerant bunch as I work in and around the pub and bars down there. But how many is that recently?

http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/news/crime/pompey-fan-arrested-at-fratton-park-in-play-off-leg-1-7381420

 

Yet another racist skate.

 

I know they're not the most tolerant bunch as I work in and around the pub and bars down there. But how many is that recently?

From the comments

wonder if they arrested the Plymouth supporters who broke the law by setting off smoke when they scored, of course not, after all they wouldn't want to cause a scene that may involve them doing real police work instead of arresting someone on "suspicion"

So they're now screaming blue murder as the FA has failed to punish the Plymouth player for an alleged headbutt. That'll be nothing to do with the way the Skate player rolled around in agony then.

I seem to recall going down to the Corrugated Cardboard Cabin in April 1976, a couple of weeks before the FA Cup Final, and in a game where a young Steve Williams made his debut, Mick Channon's goal in a 1-0 Saints win confirmed P****y's relegation to Division 3.

 

I went with a couple of mates and we had to stand on what was then the north terrace as the Milton End was packed with Saints fans. This was after the police had escorted us past a seething, foaming Fratton End.

 

Channon's goal was quite late in the game and we had to stifle our cheers.

 

It was nice to know that while we were heading off to the Cup Final and glory, they finished rock-bottom of Division Two were beginning their painful slide down an unvarnished banister with no pants on, to their first spell in English football's lowest tier.

 

Although they survived in Division 3 in 1976-77 by the skin of their teeth, they finished bottom of Division 3 and fell through the trapdoor into Division Four in 1977-78 - the same year we were promoted back to the old First Division.

 

So I think we can argue that on that April night in 1976, we pulled out the first jenga brick that brought their house down all the way to Division 4.

I was there that night and the feeling of anger and jealousy from the 'Fratton Faithful!!!!!!!!!' was palpable

I must admit that I really didn't take it in until a few days later as we were all on a high from beating Palace in the FA Cup Semi Final on the previous Saturday

Redknapp is doing a top top job at Derby.

#terrific

Yeah 'fsure.

Redknapp is doing a top top job at Derby.

#t'rrific

I fixed it for you

Popcorn? Check.

Celebratory beer waiting in fridge? Check.

Twitter account primed and ready with derogatory messages to annoy the #bestestmostest? Check.

Been a good day so far..... Hopefully will continue this evening .

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When we clinched promotion at Home Park we got given the entire stand. Pompey have about 1/3 of that stand.

When we clinched promotion at Home Park we got given the entire stand. Pompey have about 1/3 of that stand.

I imagine they kept the allocation down to a minimum. It's, err, a play off semi final. Not a jolly old end of season day our they could cream Saints fans for gate money from.

Listening to Solent on the way back from the match and they were interviewing one of the skate directors (or whatever). Going on and on about how they don't get the 50/50 decisions at home because the refs are overawed by the atmosphere. Then some stupid statement that he had counted 27 such decisions this season and they had only got 2. Utter utter garbage.

The mythmaking happens at all levels.

Remind me. If things remain equal, does this go to extra time/pens/etc or is it on Away Goals?