King Richard Blight Pompey Match Thread

knecht wrote:

On the bit of the commentary I managed to get, I was interested to hear how vociferous Sparksy was in criticising Showumni.

Enoch's still twice the player Morgan is, but that's no compliment. Surprised to hear people describe him as lazy, I've seen him play 3 or 4 times now and I couldn't put him down as lazy. My criticism of him was that he tried too hard in the games I saw him play- far too eager to get on the ball and ended up drifting out wide because of that, whereas he's the lump you want in the box not the one crossing the ball.

alannotivvy wrote:

apparently they met each other by the toilets in the away end..  

Is this where the infamous Pompey 'red rash' eminated from?  

LOL. im bloody itchy as hell.

X Isle wrote:

What a virtually perfect day to end the season, if only Wotts had got an even later winner  

Aside from football the atmosphere and the banter with the home fans was brilliant, all in good humour and capped off with old skool mutual appreciation applause as we left. PROPER support, all round.

Not sure if the escorted 'EDL' sorts afterwards were ours or theirs but what knobbers, totally against the spirit of the day, brooding and posturing while being 'kettled' by a flimsy ring of coppers. If you're that hard then break out FFS

As for the game it was a typically frustrating performance whilst nevertheless ending well. Pompey looked sharper and more 'up for it', we looked leaden footed and virtually devoid of forward purpose by comparison, especially early on. 

Things gradually improved and a few players stood out. Lewi, Nelse, Reid but foremost among them was captain Connor. In saying goodbye to one legend, great to see Wotts get on, I reckon we've got another in the making. He was cool and calm in possession and rescued our dithery defence on more than one occasion, but the final goal was a comedy gold moment, worthy of legendary status in itself.....

We won the corner and he placed the ball outside the corner markings. The Pompey fans went nuts at him so he moved in inside ironic cheers. He then moved it out again causing them to go into stratospheric levels of nuts and us to cheer and repeated the piss-take again before delivering the corner. Queue goal, and where does he choose to celebrate?, right in front of the self same section of Pompey fans. Genius, might only be a little thing and maybe it was only me but I loved it. He's turned me right round, I wanted him out post Dorchester, thought he was a petulant and reckless tw@t. Fair play to the lad, he's made me change my mind, something very few have ever done.

Thomas too was a plus. Banton was completely anonymous then seemed to injure himself falling over the ball. Thomas promptly did more in the next two minutes than 'T-shirt boy' managed all game. He brought some purpose to proceedings and fizzed over a few good crosses. He looks the part.

First look at Enoch - toilet. Lazy and doesn't jump, hope never to see him in a green shirt again.

All in all a great day, bring on next season. We've got 50% of a good side, an improvement on the 25% or so we've had at the conclusion of recent seasons past. We need to ship out quite a few and add quality to compliment the good we undoubtedly have though.

One thing though, does anyone know who the 'roly-poly little bat faced boy'* was with the Hawaiian shirt down to the right? The lad was going totally banzai all game long, quite what he was soooo angry about was hard to fathom. I'm all for passion, and he was funny, but chill pilgrim FFS, with HIS frame and THAT attitude he's just one 'eff or jeff' away from an all too early serious coronary episode      

*bastardised copyright acknowledgement to Paul Simon.

That lad was 'Pie Face', an unpleasant individual who ruins the matchday experience for anyone with the misfortune of having to sit by him.

He was 10/10 on the vile, crude, nasty and abusive stakes, absolutely foul mouthed and attacking the players on a personal level.

One fan had words with him, he apologised and then immediately returned to being abusive. I thought it was quite telling he had no friends or family sitting near him. Towards the end he virtually had the whole row to himself.

This is a character Newell was lording up on pasoti for being a TRUE supporter. Easy to say when you don't have to put up with his abuse in the director's box.

I like Pie and he's pretty committed to the team, home and away week in week out. We've all seen the rubbish on show, wouldn't you be going a little nuts by the last game too?   Hell half of you are just as vile, abusive and crude and haven't attend a match for years!  

He took it to the next level at Pompey Spolley, 90 minutes of constant nasty vitriolic abuse,  Smiffy can testify to how loud, aggressive and abusive he was being. I support everyone's right to watch the football and think fans need to leave their sensitivities at the door sometimes, but he was honestly too much for me to quietly tolerate on Saturday.

ejh wrote:

He took it to the next level at Pompey Spolley, 90 minutes of constant nasty vitriolic abuse,  Smiffy can testify to how loud, aggressive and abusive he was being. I support everyone's right to watch the football and think fans need to leave their sensitivities at the door sometimes, but he was honestly too much for me to quietly tolerate on Saturday.

Thanks for the heads up on that fella EJH. I've clocked him before but never going off on one like that. I genuinely wrestled over mentioning him on the night, I was convinced someone would disclose that he's a bit, erm, what's the PC phrase these days?, 'special', and it'd all be a bit awkward.

To re-iterate I wasn't in any way upset or offended by it, I found his antics quite funny. But then I was sat far enough away not to be inconvenienced, the guys near him had clearly had enough and were trying to calm him down. My sympathies to those sat nearer to him.

What a stroker. if i'm upset about anything it'd be that some poor village had been deprived of it's idiot for the day.

I like Pie face, I know him well, I stand with him at home games, and he's a truly passionate supporter.

He, and others got pretty annoyed at Pompey, when a group of us had congregated at the back of the stand to be together and, when there were hundreds of empty seats, a few people stumbled in to the middle of us with tickets and asked us to move.

All grounds should have unreserved seating.

I sympathise, but don't see how that warrants calling Durrell Berry and Neal Trotman 'useless dogshit feckin wankers' at the top of your lungs for virtually 90 mins though. Amongst other abuse and obscenities.

As I say, I don't mind swearing, singing, chanting. It is the vile and constant abuse that makes sitting near him irritating and near intolerable. If I took children to the games I'd be uncomfortable at the thought of them having to sit near it, and if he didn't stop after the first request I'd report him to stewards. Luckily at Pompey I was with mates and not family members or my girlfriend. One bloke had words with him - he apologised and 5 mins later was back to screaming his abuse non stop for all and sundry to have to endure.

Pitbull wrote:

I like Pie face, I know him well, I stand with him at home games, and he's a truly passionate supporter.

He, and others got pretty annoyed at Pompey, when a group of us had congregated at the back of the stand to be together and, when there were hundreds of empty seats, a few people stumbled in to the middle of us with tickets and asked us to move.

All grounds should have unreserved seating.

No they shouldn't.

For high selling matches like Saturday people need to sit where the ticket says they should sit. If everyone had taken that 'do as ya likey' attitude there'd have been hundreds of little gaps in that stand, and the last few in wouldn't have found them.

It's fine in a low selling game, but it's the stewards decision to 'let it go', not yours. Plenty of times we've had tickets with an allocated seat number but common sense prevailed on the day.

It would've made no sense on Saturday though.