I have a good friend who's a decent Pompey fan, and I tell him they have a bad element. The last time I saw any violence of any note at LR was a Pompey game, I think the season before they went up to the Prem, so I guess about 2001. I'd settled down to enjoy a good game when fights seem to break out all over the ground. Clearly planned by Pompey knuckledraggers. In fairness, I think they've improved now (except when they play Southampton when even respectable grannies run around handbagging their opposite numbers)
The thing is it's always the supporters that suffer. Owners come and go but the support will always be there. Individual experiences shouldn't paint over the fact nobody deserves to have their club taken away from them, if it was your football club you'd be in bits. I was bricking it when we nearly went into administration in 2003. That last game of the season was virtually unwatchable. Doesn't just affect the fans but also the community and local business. Fratton isn't the best areas from what my friends tell me, they lose Portsmouth and that area will be even more run down than it is. Businesses will go bust overnight.
Its a ****hole, the ground is like a run down loftus road. Its that bad even the TV gantry is condemned.
whats hard to believe about Pompey is that Leeds almost went the same way a few fews before. Ridsdale buggered Leeds and foreign owners buggered Pompey. The one confusing thinhg about the Pompey scemario is that when you look at FRatton Park and surrounding areas, there seems to be an onwer / ex owner of Pompey all owning little bits of the puzzle. I fell for the fans, the backroom staff and the creditors that lose out
