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Just back from the pub, where I watched the match at 4:30 in the morning.

I was sat next to a Pompey fan. As the scoreline developed late in the second half he became more and more quiet. When they scored their 3rd goal he did not celebrate, but started tearing up. By the 4th goal he was balling. He was very afraid that this match was a permanent "goodbye" for his team, and though for them it would be fitting that this would be against Saints, and with a win, he basically felt that he could be watching the funeral of his club at that moment.

 

We may be real rivals, and I know I will get slated for saying this, but I knew how he felt. It's only 9 or 10 months ago that we were in the same boat. I too shed more than a few tears in those days.

 

I ended up giving him a great big hug, and told him that I really hope that they will survive, so that we get many more chances to beat their ass. It would be a shame to lose that rivalry, and it is a shame when any club with such a long history disappears forever.

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A little compassion goes a long way. Well done Offix. I hope Pompey do survive, but in my post-match disappointment, just not very healthily. ;)

 

It is strange, but although I am disappointed, VERY disappointed, at the result, I am not nearly as shattered as I would have been a few years ago. Instead I am also strangely proud of our performance and our club. The mere fact that we could even play this match, and do as well overall (league, JPT, FA cup) as we are doing (considering our own recent troubles and our own near death experience) mitigates somewhat the pain of losing this one.

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It is strange, but although I am disappointed, VERY disappointed, at the result, I am not nearly as shattered as I would have been a few years ago. Instead I am also strangely proud of our performance and our club. The mere fact that we could even play this match, and do as well overall (league, JPT, FA cup) as we are doing (considering our own recent troubles and our own near death experience) mitigates somewhat the pain of losing this one.

 

exactly how i feel. very proud of the team

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It is strange, but although I am disappointed, VERY disappointed, at the result, I am not nearly as shattered as I would have been a few years ago. Instead I am also strangely proud of our performance and our club. The mere fact that we could even play this match, and do as well overall (league, JPT, FA cup) as we are doing (considering our own recent troubles and our own near death experience) mitigates somewhat the pain of losing this one.

 

Exactly..! I said about a year or 18 months ago that I would never want any other club to be going through what we had to, even our closest rivals. In truth, I think they may be closer to winding up than we ever were, despite our administration, due to the simple fact that we were always going to be a bargain for a collection of millionaires or a billionaire who wanted some fun, if we could attract their attention. Pompey just have debts and are actually worth more as a shopping precinct or other development, than as a football club. I hope they pull through, and I hope they realise that half of today's big St Marys receipts and TV money was that they were playing their auld enemy.

 

I am also very proud of our Lads.

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I hope they survive - go into Admin and get relegated - but survive so we can beat the, 5 f*cking 1 and get revenge!

 

Owusu and O'Hara should even have been on the pitch - how they got their transfer ban lifted I will never know

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+1000

 

Mr Happy strikes again. Football is all about the fans and we were in the same boat not so long ago. I hope they stay in business so we can beat them next time. If you have any feeling for football in this country you should not wat to see any club go out of business (apart from Moan United of course!!).

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Then you obviously weren't at St Marys today...

 

They go out of business? I wont bat an eyelid...

 

Of course he wasnt at St. Marys. What a daft comment ;)

 

Maidstone is too far to bother to make the trip. But he is on here like lightning to stalk me, despite the fact I was only agreeing with what at least 5 people wrote or agreed with before and after me. :rolleyes:

 

Soggy is a total whack-job.

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Just back from the pub, where I watched the match at 4:30 in the morning.

I was sat next to a Pompey fan. As the scoreline developed late in the second half he became more and more quiet. When they scored their 3rd goal he did not celebrate, but started tearing up. By the 4th goal he was balling. He was very afraid that this match was a permanent "goodbye" for his team, and though for them it would be fitting that this would be against Saints, and with a win, he basically felt that he could be watching the funeral of his club at that moment.

 

We may be real rivals, and I know I will get slated for saying this, but I knew how he felt. It's only 9 or 10 months ago that we were in the same boat. I too shed more than a few tears in those days.

 

I ended up giving him a great big hug, and told him that I really hope that they will survive, so that we get many more chances to beat their ass. It would be a shame to lose that rivalry, and it is a shame when any club with such a long history disappears forever.

 

You should have mentioned Rupert Lowe and made him laugh.

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Sat in our pub here, 6 of us watching the first half in shock, the neutrals started giving it oohs and aahs as much as we did. Even a few shouts of come on Saints from Chelski fans who'd given up watching their game and were enjoying our match.

 

Barnard's goal goes in, we give the hands in the air and woosh, the only skate in Dubai is over giving it large and telling us to sit down and shut up.

 

In all my time here, I've never felt like standing up and smacking someone for being an obnoxious a**hole until then. FFS trying to kick off in a sports bar with about 100 people in it watching about 4 different matches AND the egg chasers?

 

Hug 'em Offix? - no mate you should have laughed in his face - it's what he would have done to you

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I used to think the same until recently.

 

There are a lot of decent football fans out there who were unfortunate enough to have picked P*rtsm*uth to support, for one reason or another. As many of you will recognise, once bitten, the support of a football club stays with you for life. These guys will always appreciate football and would support a future 'AFC' type club in the future, no matter what league they started in. Sure they'll hurt if/when the club gets wound up, but they'll always have their good (and bad) memories to cherish.

 

Unfortunately, their club is also supported by a disproportionately large number of the total and utter ******s that usually form only a small minority of supporters of most other football clubs in the land. They have also been saddled with corrupt and incompetent corporate leadership since the 70's. The recent shenanigans have gone totally beyond the pale and shown what a thoroughly contemptible organisation they now are.

 

So for me now, oblivion for the current PCFC (Dis)organisation and razing of their crappy shed can't come soon enough.

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I want Portsmouth liquidated.

 

In some small, but measurable, part, this is because they are our rivals.

 

But mainly - honest to God - it's because English football need a catastrophe, indeed a death, to wake up to the obsecene and preposterous state it is in.

 

I can honestly say - hand on heart - that Porstmouth FC being terminated would be good for the long term future of our country's football.

 

Let's hope it happens. Not because they are our rivals - nor because they beat us today.

 

Let's hope they are liquidated to help save the game we love.

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I want Portsmouth liquidated.

 

In some small, but measurable, part, this is because they are our rivals.

 

But mainly - honest to God - it's because English football need a catastrophe, indeed a death, to wake up to the obsecene and preposterous state it is in.

 

I can honestly say - hand on heart - that Porstmouth FC being terminated would be good for the long term future of our country's football.

 

Let's hope it happens. Not because they are our rivals - nor because they beat us today.

 

Let's hope they are liquidated to help save the game we love.

 

Des Kelly has said exactly the same thing in the Daily Mail today.

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I want Portsmouth liquidated.

 

In some small, but measurable, part, this is because they are our rivals.

 

But mainly - honest to God - it's because English football need a catastrophe, indeed a death, to wake up to the obsecene and preposterous state it is in.

 

I can honestly say - hand on heart - that Porstmouth FC being terminated would be good for the long term future of our country's football.

 

Let's hope it happens. Not because they are our rivals - nor because they beat us today.

 

Let's hope they are liquidated to help save the game we love.

 

i agree, but i feel it will need a truly big club to go bust. Say a liverpool or manchester, pompey going bust would cause a few ripples of change but nothing like one of the big four going under

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Our situation was nothing like theirs. In contrast to their binge-fest, we were a model example of thrift and self-restraint during the Burley years (which Lowe ultimately spun/exaggerated for his own purposes). They lived beyond their means, it was unsustainable and none of their supporters complained (hence today's "you've never won f**k all", betraying a total ignorance of our history and suggesting they wouldn't have done things any differently, though most of them are too f**king thick to work out that the 2008 FA Cup was built on quicksand).

 

. If some unfairness had befallen them that was not their own making, I might agree (albeit with massive reservations). But no they're just reaping what they sowed. Had two run-ins with skates on the train to and from London; nice reminder that there's not even room for humerous, if tense banter. We genuinely don't like each other.

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i agree, but i feel it will need a truly big club to go bust. Say a liverpool or manchester, pompey going bust would cause a few ripples of change but nothing like one of the big four going under

 

 

Interesting point. But I don't think a Man Utd or Liverpool will be the first to go. A Premiership death will send on a domino effect that will clean up the game, I think.

 

Portsmouth's impending death will only really be worthwhile if it leads to a serious clean up of the game. Otherwise, it will just be sad and pathetic - albeit richly deserved.

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Interesting point. But I don't think a Man Utd or Liverpool will be the first to go. A Premiership death will send on a domino effect that will clean up the game, I think.

 

Portsmouth's impending death will only really be worthwhile if it leads to a serious clean up of the game. Otherwise, it will just be sad and pathetic - albeit richly deserved.

 

Maybe, but if Pompey go bust David Gill isnt going to say to Malcolm Glazer 'look at that guys, we need to lower our debt'. They will plough on regardless. It would be interesting to see what would happen if Liverpool dont make the champions league this year.

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Well my two cents:

 

Every time you play I want you to lose. The bigger the margin the happier I am. I loved it when you got relegated from the Prem and when you got releated last season it was a another quality moment.

 

I would never wish you to go out of business however. Why would I? How can you have a rivalry without rivals?

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Well my two cents:

 

Every time you play I want you to lose. The bigger the margin the happier I am. I loved it when you got relegated from the Prem and when you got releated last season it was a another quality moment.

 

I would never wish you to go out of business however. Why would I? How can you have a rivalry without rivals?

 

F**k off.

 

Mods, whats this skate doing on here ?

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To be honest, and you can check my posts from this week. I did not think we would win today's game, even though of course I wanted us to so much.

 

1-4 was not the scoreline that reflected the game and I thought at 1-2 that would be it, but they are (just about) Premier League, and the fitness and the quality came through at the end of the game.

 

Yes I do not like losing to them down the road, but I do not feel that bad. We are two leagues below them, and put up a good fight durning the game. For 60 minutes we were the better team and should have been in front.

 

We needed to score first and we did not, and that is the main factor in the game today.

 

I am flatline when it comes to what happens to them, and really only give a dam about Saints, and OUR FUTURE IS SO BRIGHT.... I cannot believe it!!

 

COYR!!

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Well my two cents:

 

Every time you play I want you to lose. The bigger the margin the happier I am. I loved it when you got relegated from the Prem and when you got releated last season it was a another quality moment.

 

I would never wish you to go out of business however. Why would I? How can you have a rivalry without rivals?

 

You will still start again and you will still be rivals. You will not go out of business though... just cannot see it.

 

I will also be looking forward so much to your relegation this season, and hopefully with -10 or even more next season the same again please :)

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Well my two cents:

 

Every time you play I want you to lose. The bigger the margin the happier I am. I loved it when you got relegated from the Prem and when you got releated last season it was a another quality moment.

 

I would never wish you to go out of business however. Why would I? How can you have a rivalry without rivals?

 

Couldn't give a **** what your opinion is you skate ****. Can't wait till your two bob club & ****e following goes down the pan & we dance on your grave

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Well my two cents:

 

Every time you play I want you to lose. The bigger the margin the happier I am. I loved it when you got relegated from the Prem and when you got releated last season it was a another quality moment.

 

I would never wish you to go out of business however. Why would I? How can you have a rivalry without rivals?

 

**** off you skate ****

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Well my two cents:

 

Every time you play I want you to lose. The bigger the margin the happier I am. I loved it when you got relegated from the Prem and when you got releated last season it was a another quality moment.

 

I would never wish you to go out of business however. Why would I? How can you have a rivalry without rivals?

 

Whoopy ****. What do you want, a biscuit?

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a little harsh...
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