Pompey not happy

[Lady Whistledown]

exactly, i don't want to hear ANY moaning from them about the size of their squad...........errm, how about you buy MORE players on LOWER wages to make a BIGGER squad?

That's CRAZY talk, fool!

 

[Lady Whistledown]

and this has to be deliberate because we are also a team that gets fouled loads because of our style of play. We're not a team of strongmen so if we didn't do this we would get muscled out of many games at this level, including the one just gone at Portsmouth. It can't be any coincidence that all three of our games have been niggly affairs with loads of flashpoints, players having to be separated and nasty tackles flying in. You could perhaps expect it with Pompey, but Donny? Gillingham? There is a definite Uruguayan feel to our play right now.

I also think to some extent the way in which we keep the ball frustrates opponents to the point where they fly in. If your team can't get the ball off the opposition- as happened on a number of occasions last season- and all you can hear is the other team's fans singing ole!, eventually someone gets bored of having the piss taken and snaps. They'll take the view that it might cost them a free kick but it also breaks up the string of passes and allows them to regroup.

 

[Simon Morgan]

One of my Pompey st mates put up a facebook status straight after the game saying something along the lines of 'I've never seen a set of officials try and stop a team from playing so much. Expected better from Brighton too, thought they were meant to be a footballing side?' Another friend of mine from over there went on about how the ref ruined the game and I "didn't miss much". Ever since they made it up to the Prem I think Portsmouth have taken a bit too much advantage of the fact that they were one of the more successful clubs on the south. Now that clubs like us and Reading (and Barnet!) have the audacity to beat them, I'm not sure they know how to deal with the realisation that they might be on the way down, not up. Don't get me wrong, I would have been very pissed off if we had lost to them, but I can't say I would have reacted with quite such a stunning degree of bitterness/sour grapes.

 

[sir albion]

That, i would love to have seen! They were beaten by a weakened Albion side.

Yeah agree as we have what 5/6 key players out