It is an interesting fixture. If this had been last year, I think we would have been tonked, to be honest. On paper, we should be able to brush aside a Portsmouth team that I feel is on the slide and inferior to the one they had last season. The two teams have progressed in different directions. However, I think the match against Norwich was a comfortable win for Pompey yesterday and expect Saints will have to work hard for a result.
It’s two professional teams playing a fierce, local derby; any team would have to work hard for a win.
A bit late to the party, but the flag being taken down wasn't isolated to just Portsmouth fans. There were a few fans on Twitter - one if I remember was a Bradford fan - who was saying how the stewards took their flag down because it was covering up the block number and/or sponsor's logo. So it wasn't a targeted 'take down any Portsmouth flags' operation. I also read a few different tweets about a small group of Pompey fans who sat in the Northam. Apparently they got up once or twice singing/saying something about Portsmouth and soon sat back down and kept quiet when they realised the majority around them were all Saints fans. I'm sure there were a lot there from Pompey to support England, as well as a minority who were deliberately trying to stir things up.
Yeah there was. A group were singing: "We are scum and we are vile, but John Westwood is a *****phile." I've heard it at Brighton and Sheff Utd, both times in the concourse, not the ground.
Sorry this is distasteful in the extreme and most vile. *****philia should not be treated in some light hearted or fun way. I am not a woke or a snowflake but the abuse of children is something I abhor. *****philia is not a charge that should be thrown at people jokingly or even seriously without very hard evidence.
Most football fans probably don't know why they hate their rivals but they do because they're tribalistic fools
I never waste my energy hating things, but I dislike many PFC fans who I've met through the years. And in that dislike, I've also found a strange tribal respect. Fiercely loyal, never say die attitude, & a us against the world mentality. Gosh, had I not been born as one of Hampshire's finest, I dare say I might have actually have admired the blue few a little. Time to wash your mouth out son...............
https://www.portsmouth.co.uk/sport/...-carabao-cup-clash-with-southampton-1-9073033 Two Portsmouth players ruled out of Carabao Cup....no idea if this matters or not.
Whoever steps in has such a great opportunity, it matters very little. Fully expecting them to be up for it, just hope our quality & endeavour sees us through.
Dear Not606ers it's that time of year (the football season) when I ask you to think of the less fortunate, yes those just 20 miles east of us. Take this young lady above (no one else will) just a few pounds could fund a night class to learn english or let her enjoy an exotic (one way) trip on the Gosport Ferry. Or there's John, an elderly man suffering from envy incontinence and a nasty case of Pompeyitus Bellend (which bizzarely means he has to ring one, badly). Think what a difference a ready supply of pads could do for him (applied at either or both ends). If you're feeling very kind perhaps a donation of some more gaffa tape to hold their home together for just a few more weeks before it's condemmed as unfit for even non-human use? Dig deep guys, there but for an accident of birth, or possible inbreeding, go you or I.
Tribalism is part of football and a big part of why we enjoy it as its part of human nature. Far better to let it out in a game then let it interfere in politics where it actually hurts people.
