No senior players, no money, relegation battle from the start and they have still bought 7500 season tickets. Love them or not, that is impressive. Good luck, Pompey, for the fans' sake.
Only in this country would that happen. Got to love English supporters at all levels. I know we are blessed with PL at the moment but as a QPR fan we all know its about the bad times aswell as the good. Think it makes you appreciate the good times even more. Something Plastic fans will never ever understand.
I'm a bit torn to be honest. Hats off to them for showing that kind of support but personally I've always found the majority of their fans to be bullying scumbags who have lived off their '6.57 crew' reputation for years and had nothing but delight in acting like knobs whenever I've had the displeasure to cross their paths.
I have to disgree, I live down here in Portsmouth and am hardly a fan but when ive been to games both as a home fan (with friends) and as an away fan ( QPR, Smithy's pen last year ) there has been banter but never anything more. The atmosphere in the ground is similar to ours. The ground is very compact and the fans do seem to give them an edge at home. To be honest Every team has so called 'fans' that act out and try to act hard looking for trouble, but to say the ''majority'' of Portsmouth fans do this a deluded statement in my opinion.
Mate, I don't expect every one to agree with me, and I'm sure my views are tainted by the world I used to live in, but I stick by my views that the majority of Portsmouth fans I've met in my travels have been bullying arseholes, therefore I don't actually give a f*** what happens to their club, as I'm sure they wouldn't particularly care what happens to us. Again it's just my opinion
For the sake of football in general we cannot have clubs going down the drain, once one goes the floodgates could open
I tend to disagree. Aldershot went under a good few years back and the floodgates didn't open. Glasgow Rangers have recently gone under and so far the floodgates havn't opened. If a business (including football clubs) is run badly then it's a hard fact of life that they go under. Maybe i'm being a bit harsh but life goes on.
Clubs don't go under and disappear, they just drop down to a level where they're able to function again. And the world doesn't end every time that happens.....
Thought you might have had something to say on this, if Portsmouth hadn't of offloaded all their first team players then they would have been out of business, as for Rangers we have yet to see the impact on the SPL with clubs not getting their support.
They would have reinvented themselves even if they had to drop into non league. But I agree with you that's it's not good for football and it is happening more and more. What annoys me most is, all these clubs seem to have new owners, some more than once a year. So how do they pass the fit and proper persons test?
A fool and his money are soon parted, right? Just because you can qualify as an owner doesn't mean that you can't make bad business decisions. How many matches are decided by a deflection, a freak own goal or a referee's call, right or wrong? Pompey had a bad luck streak and are paying the price.
There for the grace of God go we. Respect to the real fans.....fleeced by greedy owners. Good luck Pompey
They're not saying the rangers bloke was a fool, they're saying he dealt in illegal practices. And as far as I'm aware, non of the pompy fly by night owners lost any personal wealth!! Fools-no. Unfit-yes....
I agree. Their passion is to be admired but I draw the line at unquestioning loyalty of the kind that you see at Pompey, Millwall and at the Scum in earlier generations. If you try to ignore the nasty elements among your fellow supporters then you encourage them and they grow.
