Five Years

Pompey boss Harry Redknapp marks the 5 anniversary of the beginning of his management at Fratton Park when he takes to the dug out at Fulham on Saturday afternoon.It will be 5 years to the weekend that Redknapp first took over the Fratton Park reins with a 2-0 defeat at Preston on Saturday 30th March 2002. The match saw debut boy Eddie Howe hobble off and striker Svetoslav Todorov sent off in only his second game for the club. Peter Crouch had been sold to Aston Villa for £5m in the week leading up to the match. So his short stay at Southampton is part of this 5 years then? Play Up Pompey!!!!!!!!

Any old Cole

Birmingham City have signed veteran Portsmouth striker Andy Cole on loan until the end of the season. So it looks like Toddy may now get a go, I am sorry to see Cole go but it has just not worked out with Cole and Pompey.

Is this awuful ?

Former Pompey defender Andy Awford will get his chance to finally bid farewell to Pompey later this month when Fratton Park hosts a testimonial match in his honour.He will be back at Fratton Park on Sunday March 25th, along with an array of his former teammates and colleagues, as a modern day Portsmouth XI take on two specially selected teams over 90 minutes.Kick off on the day will be 1:30pm.Will I be going I don't know yet? The strange thing is I saw Andy running down near my road the other day and I was driving the car to the local shop. what a lazy so and so I am!

A good Hart is hard to find

Pompey appointed the highly-respected Paul Hart as Director of Youth Operations.Hart is to develop a long-term strategy for the development of young players and will be a key figure in Portsmouth's bid for Academy status following plans to build a new 55-acre state-of-the-art training facility in Titchfield.So it looks like our Russian owner is doing thing the correct way this is good news bring on the kids!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Reading 0-0 Portsmouth

Well we are up to 42 points now, so all is well with Prem footie for next season. Some of the news papers on Sunday said this game was awful, I dont care Pompey don't play for them so the press can %&?@ off.

Back from Dubai not me! Pompey you idiot

LINVOY PRIMUS says Pompey's break in Dubai was just the job for team-bonding and recharging the players' batteries so lets hope the team can have a last go at Europe. I have said that as long as we stay up I will be happy and I am, but to be in the top six for most of the season and lose out at the end would be a shame. Play Up Pompey!!!!!!!!!

Portsmouth 0-2 Chelsea

Well as it is my Birthday week this will be a bit short, also I and the rest of the Pompey faithful have a football free weekend dam and blast it!

Mum took me for a meal at Gun Wharf for my Birthday, and I can’t remember what the place was called bit it was a US style place with old pictures of New York and other cities on the wall.

To get to Gun Wharf I took the bus from where I left my car at Fratton Park and it was only £1.50 for a single, but I still don’t like public transport don’t start me on that one! After the meal and a beer we set of to the marquee at the back of the North stand at Fratton Park, on the way we stopped of at a student bar mainly to use the toilet but it was a great pub I think it was called the dog and the one eyed duck or something like that, I think we may come back to here again for a drink. So to the Marquee I was impressed with it two big screens with Sky sports News on and some good beers to drink. The place was decorated with large pictures of Pompey in play and all in all it is a good place to come for a pre match drink.

The game went the predictable way with a Chelsea win, but Pompey made them work for the three points. Pompey enjoyed plenty of possession, but Andy Cole and Kanu both saw headers magnificently saved by Petr Cech. The Pompey fans were revelling in Chelsea's deficit, as chorus after chorus of 'Where's your title gone?' rang around Fratton Park as the game kicked off. Drogba struck the opener just after the half-hour mark, volleying Ashley Cole's left-wing cross into the ground and past Portsmouth goalkeeper David James. So Pompey could not stop the unstoppable Drogba, but how bad was Shevchenko and I would have to say this was the worst I have seen Chelsea play since we got promoted but they still beat us as Chelsea raced up the pitch and Ashley Cole headed into the box for substitute Kalou to slip past the advancing James. So next is Reading away time to beat the Royals.

Pompeygary’s Man Of The Match Davis back to his best

Pompeygary’s Worst Man Shevchenko how much did he cost

Portsmouth: James, Pamarot, Primus, Campbell, Traore (Kranjcar 68), O'Neil, Davis, Hughes, Taylor, Kanu, LuaLua (Cole 73).
Subs Not Used: Ashdown, O'Brien, Mvuemba.

Chelsea: Cech, Diarra, Carvalho, Essien, Ashley Cole, Makelele, Lampard, Ballack, Robben (Wright-Phillips 76), Shevchenko (Kalou 76), Drogba (Bridge 84).
Subs Not Used: Cudicini, Ferreira.

Booked: Ballack, Makelele.

Goals: Drogba 33, Kalou 82.

Att: 20,219.

Ref: M Halsey (Lancashire).

SEASON TICKET PRICES ANNOUNCED

Well Pompey have announced season tickets prices for next season and some fans are not happy. This is from posts from Pompey-fans.com

curryking wrote "i have a serious gripe about this and have emailed the club with a constructive yet harshly worded email."

yo_yo_gang wrote "pompey has always been poorly managed, as most football clubs. however, pompey also think we're just mugs"

but guderian wrote "If you don't want to pay the money, don't go! Easy, innit?"

Redknapp 60

Harry Redknapp was 60 yesterday happy birthday happy Harry.

Mendes set to miss rest of season

Pedro Mendes is likely to miss the rest of the season after undergoing an ankle operation.
The Pompey midfielder tore ligaments in his right ankle at Blackburn last weekend.

In a bid to repair the damage, he went under the surgeon's knife at North Hampshire Hospital in Basingstoke yesterday.

Now he is facing at least eight weeks on the sidelines.

The likelihood is he will be out for the remainder of the season and the push to get into Europe.


Oh dear and we have Chelsea Saturday. Play Up Pompey.

Drinks this week and food

This Saturday it's another TV kick of at 5.15 so late drinks then, but it's my Birthday next week (21 again) so I am having a meal with Mum, after that we will head to Fratton Park to the marqee next to the north stand beer!!!!!!!

So it's been a while and training facility

With the lack of games over the past few weeks I have been left to watch DVD's of Pompey to keep me happy. The club have put plans to Fareham Borough for a 'highly specialised' training facility in Titchfield, west of Fareham and on the radio the club say things will be in place within a year.Three professional-size pitches, four other pitches, two three-quarter size pitches and two mini-soccer pitches are in the proposal as well as an indoor training pitch facility.Changing, catering, press and other ancillary facilities are proposed to be sited in a converted tithe barn on the site.So Pompey are starting to catch up with the rest of the Prem and most of the other divisions to, now whats happening with the stadium :-)