You have a mate who is a Skate FFS.
How on earth did such a grave misfortune come about?
Do you find it hard to make friends with decent, wholesome, pleasant people?
We were young and foolish, it was the early 80s, both starting our nurse training in a strange place (well, Chichester).
To be fair he's had to cope more times over the decades with Saints being in the ascendency and does so with mostly good grace, even been to St Marys with me a couple of times. My visit to Notarfkrap was more of a terror filled afternoon for us both though.
So yes, not a typical Pompey bore.

