Portsmouth 0-0 Middlesbrough

Well this was a long day for me, I started work at 5.45am and at 4.15pm when I finished work I was a bit tired. So into Portsmouth I went, I took some of my dinner from the night before and ate it cold in the car when I parked up but I was still hungry so I went to the shop and got a pasty lovely. So to the pub this was a surprise the décor and atmosphere has changed, this pub was and had a more comfortable feel to it but now it seemed to be run by a bunch of older chav types and it was not the landlord as such but the bar staff and locals. Also the flat screen TV had bloody Richard and Judy on and it took one of the punters to ask them to put Sky sports on the TV another pub without sport on the box well this is England.

The game itself was much better than the last home game with Charlton, we passed much better and it looked like we could score on most of our attacks. With Portsmouth entering the game hoping to move into fifth spot and Boro looking to earn a fourth consecutive league victory, a lively clash was fully expected. With our old boy Yakubu playing he just had to score against us but he didn’t phew!. In this game both sides played well under the flood lights of an evening game the atmosphere is always better don’t know why. But the game drifted to a stalemate that neither side appeared too unhappy with, as Middlesbrough earned their first-ever Premiership point at Fratton Park. So it was another point for us and now we are on the same points as we ended last year so no relegation this year.

Pompeygary’s Man of the Match Campbell solid as a rock

Pompeygary’s Worst man Xavier how poor was he!

Portsmouth: James, Johnson, Primus, Campbell, Traore (Douala 69), O'Neil, Lauren, Pedro Mendes, Taylor, Mwaruwari (LuaLua 73), Kanu (Cole 81).
Subs Not Used: Ashdown, Hughes.

Middlesbrough: Jones, Xavier, Woodgate, Pogatetz, Taylor, Morrison (Christie 81), Boateng, Cattermole, Arca, Downing, Yakubu (Euell 90).
Subs Not Used: Turnbull, Rochemback, Davies.

Booked: Downing.

Att: 19,820

Ref: D Gallagher (Oxfordshire).