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Reply | 5 Things About Pompey Game
at 13:17 13 Oct 2026
Not even that many. We've only played 35 league games against them.
My first games were in the mid-60s and for decades it was unheard of for Pompey to beat Saints. You just considered it a routine victory. It wasn't that big a deal.
They're all here:
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Reply | 5 Things About Pompey Game
at 12:06 13 Oct 2026
No, they only gave pro-Pompey stats, which when you consider how poor their all-time record against us is, are not that easy to find. For the return fixture, they'll only mention how long it's been since we won a league game there, and ignore all the other stats, which are massively in our favour.
The media, including Blackmore, could mention that it will be 22 years without a league win against us when we play them at Fratton, that we have a 6 match unbeaten run against them in all competitions, and that we have won more than twice as many derby games as they have: 21-9. But, they won't.
Pompey may not be very good at football, and their fans boo their team a lot, but they are very good at propaganda.
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Reply | 5 Things About Pompey Game
at 23:20 12 Oct 2026
1. I must have read and heard that 22 year stat more than a hundred times in the media over the weekend. When we play the return fixture, I wonder whether it will even get mentioned that Pompey haven't won a league game against us for 22 years? |
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Reply | Southampton V Portsmouth Matchday Thread
at 19:07 12 Oct 2026
The last time I listened to one of Blackmore's match commentaries, he spent most of the game moaning about his bad back. It was 'painful' to listen to.
I switched on BBC Radio Solent when I was driving to the 2nd leg of the play-off semi-final with Middlesbrough, expecting some pre-match Saints build-up. Instead I got Blackmore acting as Gibbo's mouthpiece. I switched it off. I suppose his one excuse could be that he's a BBC employee, and their reporting on Saints is generally very negative.
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Reply | James Bree
at 11:06 12 Oct 2026
When Saints send a player out on loan, he usually turns out to be good. Shea Charles and Dom Ballard were 2 recent loanees. But, the top clubs all do it. Spurs used to send Harry Kane out on loan. |
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Reply | Now the euphoria has died down
at 10:29 12 Oct 2026
Under Tonda, Saints pace themselves very well, and then rip into the opposition when they're tiring in the final quarter of the game. They couldn't really do that so much yesterday because they were down to 10 men by then, but it was still noticeable that in the final 20 minutes even with 10 men, Saints took control. With 11, I think we'd have scored 2 or 3 late goals. Remember how poor we used to be with 10 men under previous managers?
Players who stood out for me - under the circumstances of being down to 10 men for more than half of a derby game - were Azaz, Schlotterbeck, Stephens, Downes....in fact, the whole team.
Bragg will learn that he mustn't keep turning round and facing his own goal when he gets the ball. Opposition analysts have surely noted it and the Pompey players were waiting to pounce when he did it yesterday.
If Mousinho was saying Azaz should have got a red card, what about Ebou Adams? He committed at least 4 yellow card offences worse than anything Bragg did. Adams is the same cheat who scored Pompey's equaliser with his hand in the last derby game. |
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Reply | Was that the worst skate support at St Mary's?
at 09:56 12 Oct 2026
I was in the Itchen North and couldn't hear them at all, apart from a couple of Play Ups. Maybe it was because the home support was so loud, but they were the quietest away fans we've had at St Mary's for a long while.
I notice Butty can't help showing his true colours .
As for the fence ratting, I was walking in Ocean Parade with Saints fans who'd come out of the Northam quite a while after the final whistle. They were in a celebratory mood and pulled back some of the black plastic sheeting on the fence to taunt any Pompey fans they could find. There were a few of the Blue Few on a little ridge, about 20 yards back from the fence, filming them with their mobile phones. Then a group of mounted police came charging down Ocean Parade, at which point I left. [Post edited 12 Oct 11:00]
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Reply | Southampton V Portsmouth Matchday Thread
at 22:09 11 Oct 2026
BBC Sport's reporting of Saints is very negative. Even their BBC Radio Solent reporter, Adam Blackmore, immediately took Middlesbrough's side against us and was still rambling on with his anti-Eckert agenda this weekend, as well, of course, droning on about how many years it's been since we beat Pompey..
Pity we can't get Rickie Lambert to replace him. He's got more personality, knows more about football and he's more enthusiastic about Saints:
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Reply | Southampton V Portsmouth Matchday Thread
at 15:55 11 Oct 2026
Yes, until the moment Bragg got himself into trouble, we were all thinking : how many are we going to win by?
But, Pompey's forwards really are p!ss poor. They were as big a let-down as their fans. [Post edited 11 Oct 15:56]
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Reply | Southampton V Portsmouth Matchday Thread
at 15:45 11 Oct 2026
Wherever he receives the ball, Bragg immediately turns round to face his own goal. The analysts of other teams all know that, and Pompey players were waiting for him to do it. I shouted "forward, not back!" at him. as I could see what was going to happen, but I was far away - not that he'd have listened to me anyway - and the Pompey player took the ball. Then Bragg made things worse by grabbing his shirt.
I think it would have ended up a comfortable 4-0 otherwise. But, credit to the 10 players for digging in. Celebrating at the end was so good that I really didn't want to leave.
The last 2 minutes of the first half, after the red card, the atmosphere was a bit deflated, but apart from that, I could really only hear our fans. The love-in the Pompey players and fans had in their corner at the end was the only time I noticed them, but I still couldn't hear them.. [Post edited 11 Oct 15:57]
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Reply | Leicester - Peterboro
at 17:05 10 Oct 2026
Robbie Savage is a very good manager. I've watched his progress with Macclesfield and Forest Green Rovers. He has a 62% win rate after more than 120 games. Leicester fans must be wishing they had him instead of Russell Martin. [Post edited 10 Oct 17:07]
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Reply | Leicester - Peterboro
at 16:29 10 Oct 2026
The worst manager and the worst goalkeeper Leicester fans have ever seen.
"McCarthy is truly ****ing hilarious 😂😂😂 They hadn’t scored a first half goal until today " |
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Reply | What a relief
at 23:09 7 Oct 2026
All we need now is to have the right goalkeeper and striker starting on Sunday. Is Ramsdale training with the first team now? [Post edited 7 Oct 23:11]
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Reply | Sweet FA
at 17:35 7 Oct 2026
The independent tribunal, unlike the EFL, treated this without prejudice as a legal case and there was only one relevant legal precedent: Leeds and Bielsa. Legal precedents normally determine the outcomes of subsequent cases.
How that so-called independent EFL panel with its Boro connections got away with replacing Saints with Boro in the play-off final, Gibbo only knows. Presumably, if we'd had the same legal team then, they wouldn't have got away with it. The time for appeal would have extended past the play-off final and the panel members with obvious Boro connections, like David Winnie, would have been replaced before he could propose replacing Saints with Boro in the final.. [Post edited 7 Oct 17:39]
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