What I meant was teams like Derby, Forest and Leeds have London branches who would bring 50+ members to a game at the Mad Stad. We do not as far as I am aware have a Manchester or Newcastle branch of the supporters club. Of course I know there are lots of Royals who live in various parts of the UK ...
I've always followed Morton's results since learning from my 1975 Subutteo Kit Colour Chart that they played in blue and white hoops the same as Reading.
Can you buy Ferguson's Chocolates in Waitrose? That would be another 'spooky' link.
If the players go into this thinking it will be a stroll cos Pompey have already gone down the pan then t'will all go horribly wrong: 1 v 2 Portsmouth (Halford and Nugent, if he still plays for them, if not someone else) If Brian gets the players heads right and they go out and play as they can do: ...
I have a vague recollection of Portsmouth fans coming to Elm Park in the seventies (possibly early eighties) and near killing a Reading fan in the fighting that took place. I've hated them ever since. The sooner they go out of existence the better.
There is no need to fret about a play-off final this year. Our end of season destiny is to beat Birmingham in the last game which will see us overtake them and nick second spot.
Listened to the match commentary on BBC Radio Humberside and even they (in their obviously biased for the Hull audience opinion) said Reading were by far the better team, and that Hull were hanging on and lucky not to be a couple of goals behind. Then they scored, so I switched off cos couldn't stan...