Paxton Dazo
Up The Spurs.
- Mar 11, 2007
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Shit support, they only ever bring about 1500/2000 to The Lane. They really are pittiful. Remember the year they made Wembley, they played Preston en route, and took about 750 up there.
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wigman
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There a lot of BHA in LA,loads went down to Southampton.
There are a few Pompey but they all shirt wearers and i know most of them.
Trust me that must will go off scene if relegated.
I work in LA and there are a lot of BHA but most refuse to go to Withers.
LA has always been BHA and it will stay that way.
wigman
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The fact is that they have a lot of fans but the area is so run down that no one has no money.
If you think the High Road is the pits just take a trip West and have a look.
smudge
Up the Albion!
Pompey had shit support when they were struggling in the Championship. We were the last club to have the whole Milton end when we lost 4-2 down there, then their fans demanded to be given a greater percentage of the attendance as they were on the up. As I said back then, the plastic Pompey fans will soon disappear when it all goes Pete Tong.
Pompey, dog shit city.
Pompey, dog shit city.
My kind of thread. I f***ing hate these plastic twats and the way their fans think they're MASSIVE which they're not. Sure they take a few away when they're doing well, but they're nothing when their team is run of the mill.
Early 1980s, 5,000 at home in division 3 whilst we were packing the Goldstone in the top flight and their own rivals Southampton were finishing 2nd in the league with Keegan. Happy, happy days. Hopefully in a couple of years it'll be just like that again (with Southampton doing shit too obviously)
Early 1980s, 5,000 at home in division 3 whilst we were packing the Goldstone in the top flight and their own rivals Southampton were finishing 2nd in the league with Keegan. Happy, happy days. Hopefully in a couple of years it'll be just like that again (with Southampton doing shit too obviously)
Hmmm.......I can remember the Albion playing at Roker Park in 1980/81 in the second last game of the season, we had just turned Palace over 3-0 at their place the previous week, and needed to win our last two games to avoid relegation. If we won at Roker we would leapfrog over them and so it was a critical match for both teams.
Gary Williams scored the winner in the 92nd minute, and ran to the ecstatic Albion following to celebrate...........all 60 of us.
Gary Williams scored the winner in the 92nd minute, and ran to the ecstatic Albion following to celebrate...........all 60 of us.
Austrian Gull
Well-known member
True but us Brighton fans generally don't crow to the rest of the world that we are the best supporters in the country, unlike our noddy South Coast neighbours.
May they continue to crash and burn.
You've REGALED that tale to us several times before, and to be honest we had shit away support as recently as the early 90s. Our fans are as fickle as any, no question. We get 6,000 at home (in a shit stadium to be fair) but if we charged to the Premiership our crowds were dwarf those of Bolton, Blackburn, Burnley and Wigan if we had a stadium big enough. We're not much different and only slightly bigger than Reading, historically.
BUT...what has that got to do with the average 6 fingered Portsmouth fan's contention that they're a MASSIVE club and far bigger than Southampton and Brighton put together?
is another correct answer.
I'm not convinced we would to be honest. Average attendances this season for those clubs are as follows
Blackburn 25,953
Bolton 21,980
Burnley 20.047
Wigan 18,241
We might have higher attendances than Burnley and Wigan for one season in the Prem, but if we made it to a second season then attendances would drop off sharply I suspect, as happened in 1980/81.
I agree with you entirely about Reading, what we should aspire to is a fan base such as that of Norwich, who manage to pack out their ground every match somehow.
Cardiff are averaging 20,000 this season and have a new ground, there should be a Falmer effect when we move in, but unless we deliver on the park it will be short lived.
I don't know many Pompey fans, but not sure they do have such a belief. There are some bellends who support them, but every club (including us) has their fair share of delusional pondlife who seem to think the club has a divine right to promotion/cup run/Europe each season.
The reason why I keep hankering back to Roker '81 is that people in glasshouses........
I'd love them to go tumbling through the leagues too. I still can remember the 5-1 defeat under Cattlin when we were kept behind by the local plod for half an hour in the pissing rain whilst they (the OB) were singing '5-1' to us, and they then abandoned us to the waiting hordes of brick throwing sailors who follow Pompey outside as soon as their overtime shift ended.
I remember it well. And we were 1-0 up at half time too.
Mind you, they absolutely shat on us 2 years later at Fratton and yet we somehow beat them 2-1. And not forgetting the year in between where Noel Blake became the first person in history to score an own goal whilst "under pressure" from Mick Ferguson.
I remember it well. And we were 1-0 up at half time too.
Mind you, they absolutely shat on us 2 years later at Fratton and yet we somehow beat them 2-1. And not forgetting the year in between where Noel Blake became the first person in history to score an own goal whilst "under pressure" from Mick Ferguson.
I think the 2-1 was Fashanu's best 90 minutes in an Albion shirt.
Ferguson compounded the felony a few weeks later with his mazy 40 yard run and scuffed shot at The Den which brought us an away victory against Millwall and a special Sarf London welcome from the locals.
We'd average well above 20,000 in the Premiership without question. Look at the number of London teams for starters. Balckburn's average surprises me - mind you I suspect they've played Burnley and most of their local(ish) rivals, a lot of which are big clubs. But they're a small club, much smaller than we would be. Hull are more a case in point for us. No real football history, but a big city club in a new ground bursting at the seams every single game. Eventually the novelty would go, but it would take about ten Premiership seasons for that to happen I think.
They're mostly bellends. Some Pompey twat came on here about six months ago telling us they'd get 40,000 every week easily if the stadium was built.El Presidente said:
wigman
Well-known member
I remember that game very well and the locals were far from happy.
Bish Bosh
Active member
Agree with El Pres on this one and let me say right away I absolutely HATE Portsmouth as a city. Their fans include a higher proprtion of six-fingured retards than most other clubs. But I work with some well-educated Pompey fans and they are quite aware that they've been punching above their weight for ten years now. One or two are professional accountants and they are terrified that the club will not just go into administration but actually be liquidated. Rumours of alleged criminality at Fratton Park aka Shithole as well.
The best scenario for me would be for us to wave at therm while we go up the leagues (probably with Southampton which will amuse them) while they plummet...but still stay in business.
The best scenario for me would be for us to wave at therm while we go up the leagues (probably with Southampton which will amuse them) while they plummet...but still stay in business.
Horrible club, in a horrible town, supported by horrible inbreds.
When they had Redknapp there too, it really was the full set.
When they had Redknapp there too, it really was the full set.
aviaviavioioioi
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Pompey are not plastic they are a loud bunch always a loud atmosphere in their ground but yes they are *****. I would say Reading,Fulham,Wigan,
Major plastic clubs!
Major plastic clubs!
Disagree entirely about Fulham, they are just very good at pulling in the neutrals with very attractive prices and an easy to get to stadium for most in the south bit like charlton did