Rob Parker | March 2, 2010
Administrators’ first sale is Pompey’s irony detector
Cash-strapped Portsmouth are offering fans the chance to pay for financial advice from the club which has been run into the ground with crippling debts. Supporters wanting to experience the same frugality that got Pompey more than £70 million in the red can visit the new PFC Financial Services [...]
Rob Parker | February 12, 2010
Cutting through the exotic monikers of Premier League imports so you can judge the player, not the name
If you have to build your relegation fodder defence on anything, it might as well be a Rock. So Avram Grant has chosen well. He is - suspensions permitting - building his defence on a Rock of the [...]
Rob Parker | February 8, 2010
Clinical finishing… against his own keeper
Just when we thought Portsmouth were the world authority on own goals, up pops this beaut from AZ Alkmaar’s Pontus Wernbloom. The Swedish midfielder has played as a striker and showed his goalscoring prowess when the ball broke to him on the edge of the box. Quick as a flash [...]
Rob Parker | February 6, 2010
A helping hand for United
Portsmouth were never going to be favourites against Manchester United, but they made extra sure that the home side secured all three points by weighing in with what is likely to go down as a hat-trick of own goals.
Marc Wilson scored the pick of the bunch.
Video via 101GG
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Rob Parker | February 4, 2010
Portsmouth boss named as the secret massage fan
Portsmouth manager Avram Grant has been named by The Sun as the Premier League manager they claimed had been caught visiting a brothel last December. The tabloid had been banned from naming the manager involved because of a so-called “super-injunction”.
But in the wake of the injunction taken out [...]
Rob Parker | February 2, 2010
Which players and club have made bad decisions this January?
1. Robbie Keane to Celtic
It is only a loan move and Keane’s frustration at a lack of starts for Tottenham is understandable, but generally his career has been on an upwards curve since leaving Liverpool last January while the standard of the SPL continues an a [...]
Rob Parker | February 1, 2010
1. Considering Arsene Wenger is generally acknowledged as a cerebral manager, he is probably wondering how he managed to fall for the same trick twice. Take a bow, Fergie.
2. Money can buy happiness. Just conduct a quick poll of Manchester City and Portsmouth fans/players after yesterday’s clash.
3. It was almost a given that John Terry’s [...]
