Existence has no meaning without a football team

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Eno says:

05:50pm | 25/02/10

I’m a West Brom Supporter myself & I know the pain of repeated relegation. Luckily I think we only went down to Third Division ‘cause they invented Premier League that year. To Give Aussies an idea how entrenched football is my Maternal Grandfather asked my Dad on being introduced “So - what football team do you support”  and waited for the right answer before shaking his hand..

Frank says:

04:28pm | 25/02/10

As a supporter of Nottingham Forest, I know the pain.

But at some time you have to ask youself, do you want to spend a couple of seasons in the Premier League or do you want to remain as a club. In some ways the Chamionship is a better league to watch. Techinically no but its a tough long season one week you are playing Newcastle with 52,000 fans at St James and the very next week you are at Scunthorpe at Glanford park with 9000 seat capacity on bumpy rubbish pitch. It has alot of variations and changes in the whole league table.

The Premiership is a shocking place of the up and coming clubs many have toyed with it only to be broken and relegated, sold and go into administration.

Mr Subramanian says:

03:57pm | 25/02/10

Is the English Premier League the best example in the world of what happens when you don’t have measures in place to even out player talent between clubs (ie. the salary cap, the draft, etc etc) ~ the rich clubs can pay the big $ to get the best players, and therefore win more games, and therefore attract more $, and the better players want to play somewhere they have more chance of getting noticed and winning stuff, and so on and so on. Hence the top 4 from year to year can be reliably predicted before the season starts 90% of the time, and those lesser lights who do outperform expectations soon sink back down the ladder in subsequent seasons fizzles because they can’t sustain the pace…

S.L says:

02:44pm | 25/02/10

Jon you hit the nail right on the head! I’m no Portsmouth supporter but I know where you’re coming from. I had a childhood mate that lived and breathed the North Sydney Bears NRL team. The worst they got the more he loved them even though they were never near their first flag since 1922.
Now they’re gone…....
I was a Balmain supporter (West Tigers aren’t the same and I know many old Magpie supporters who agree with me) and hate the memory of the our back to back Grand Final losses.
Now I’m on the Central Coast and we have a team to support from start up, the Mariners. Even for such a young club we have cheered the highs and cringed at the lows (like this season) but it’s our club!
So best of luck to Pompey Jon!

Up the Saints! says:

01:57pm | 25/02/10

Better get your gun out mate, you guys are history, hahahahahahahahaha!

Jugger says:

01:53pm | 25/02/10

Wonder what John ‘W@nker’ Westwood is going to do with his Pompey tattoo when you guys don’t exist anymore?  He’ll just be a plain old sad git rather than a skate b@stard sad old git!

Jugger says:

01:38pm | 25/02/10

You Skate’s are cheats and deservied to be punished!

When I was just a little boy,
I asked my mother what should I be,
Should I be Pompey,
Should I be Saints,
Here’s what she said to me,
Wash your mouth out son,
And go get your father’s gun,
And shoot the Pompey scum,
And support the saints,
We hate Pompey!
We hate Pompey!

SLF says:

12:03pm | 25/02/10

I don’t think it is the highlife Pompey lived, it is serial mismanagement by owners who though buying a PL team was a way to make a really fast buck. It amazes me that they amassed a fortune in the firstplace if they believe being a chairman of a football club increases your wealth!

One interesting aside to the Pompey issue Harry Redknapp. Managed Bournemouth…terrible financial woes, managed West Ham…terrible financial woes, managed Southampton…terrible fiancial woes…managed Pompey…terrible financial woes. Seems like there is a pattern here.

Rowdy says:

08:32am | 25/02/10

I understand what you are going through Jon. I was in the same position last year with Newcastle United (howay the lads!). They nearly went into administration and poor performances and a naive manager sent them spiralling into relegation. It was a sobering experience, particularly after Champions League football a few years before.

Anyway, on the bright side, it allowed us to clear some deadwood from the playing ranks, get in some players who want to play football rather than look good, and now we are on top of a very tough league (the Championship) with about 13 games to go and, with fingers and toes eternally crossed, we will hopefully be back in the top flight come August. Sometimes you need to go backwards to go forward, and with the type of money that flows around the Premier League, it doesn’t take much of a wobble to send a club into the red.

Hopefully Pompey will recover,  both financially and on the pitch,  and return soon to the Premier League

Seano says:

07:17am | 25/02/10

Agreed. And good luck with Pompey, I hope the find a benevolent quickly.

I wouldn’t know what to do if something happened to my NRL Knights which is an ever present danger considering our on going financial woes.