Oh Yay, Oh Yay, Oh Yay !!......... Yes, the Sports Mail is coming home, states The News, Portsmouth And purchasing a copy will give a financial boost to Pompey, too. After many requests from our readers, The Newsâ much-loved sports newspaper is going to be printed again. With the feel-good factor back at Pompey, the Sports Mailâs return will coincide with the Bluesâ first match of the new campaign on Saturday, August 3. Our 28-page publication will then be available every Saturday tea-time throughout the football season, packed with Pompey, non-league and grass-roots football. After a proud 109-year history, we were forced to bid a sad farewell to the Sports Mail in October last year because of dwindling sales. But the outpouring of emotion from readers ever since forced us to look into ways of bringing it back. Now the much-missed Sports Mail will return â and we are asking all fans of the paper to go out and purchase copies on a weekly basis to ensure it can remain an important part of our areaâs sporting scene. Without your support the future of the Sports Mail will be put back at risk. Whatâs more, Pompey will reap the rewards, too. For every Sports Mail purchased, we will donate 10p to the Pompey Supportersâ Trust. So for just 60p, youâll be getting a top-class read â and helping out your beloved Blues, too. And thereâs even better news. If you buy a season-long subscription to the Sports Mail we can offer it to you for only 45p a week (£17.55 for 39 editions). And even at this superb discount we will still put 10p into the clubâs coffers. The improved Sports Mail will include: · Pompey match report, pictures and summary from that dayâs game. · An exclusive Blues player column. · An in-depth interview with a Pompey star, plus the latest stories from Fratton Park. · The chance to win great prizes with our fansâ page. · Pompey Ladies and youth. · Non-league features. · Match reports, pictures and stats from our local youth and parks football scene. · Non-league reports from that dayâs matches. · Full-time round-up from Saturdayâs Premier League and Football League matches. *********************************************************************************** Good news indeed ! Let us hope (on a personal note) that they can deliver it to the South Island on Saturday evening like they used to in the good old days, rather than wait until the following Monday, by which time it was a wee bit late, and not quite so gripping, as it would have been two days earlier.
Alas, not living in Portsmouth I cannot buy a copy (and I doubt they'd deliver up here anyway) but it sounds good! Though I did stumble across a copy of the News at uni once, which was kinda random seeing as I went to uni in London.
Don't want to sound a pessimistic note here............ but I'm going to. There is usually a reason why sales dwindle. I just hope that the outpouring of emotion actually turns into hard cash sales. I see there is also going to be a digital subscription as well, maybe fans living abroad might be interested in taking up this option.
Fair comment, 3rd eye. I might be wrong, but I believe that when the Sports Mail was stopped previously, it was at a time when PFC's owners were refusing to talk to journalists from The News, due to the fact that too many of their articles/stories were critical of PFC. The good news now is that there appears to be an excellent relationship between the two parties - hence the introduction of a watermark of the Sportsmail Sailor on the new Pompey away shirt.
Hah - there's usually a reason. Although............. didn't it cease publication quite recently? When the club was actually back in admin? Take the point about the previous relationship though. Btw - I see you are still visiting the rep brothel What's your target rep power?
