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Relegation is usually greeted with despair and anger. It can mean a loss in income, potentially a smaller budget and smaller crowds. For Portsmouth, their relegation from League One and continued fall from grace is slightly different. Next year’s quest in...read more »

The horror story that is Portsmouth Football is coming to an end. The final chapter that earmarks a new beginning and a final release from the stranglehold that has pushed Portsmouth Football Club into League 1. Even Stephen King could...read more »

As Bournemouth’s Marc Pugh rolled in the second goal to confirm a ninth consecutive loss and 19th game without a win for Portsmouth, I afforded myself a wry smile - one of acceptance, resignation, and disbelief. I should have been prepared,...read more »

The “managerial merry-go-round” is a phrase that has become extremely common in football language. Managers have come and gone and the lifespan of the gaffer seems to be getting shorter and shorter. But the events in the Championship this week...read more »

On Wednesday night at Stamford Bridge, one manager whose appointment provoked fierce opprobrium from his own club’s supporters will be in direct opposition to a man whose arrival was celebrated by followers of relegation haunted Q.P.R Regardless of the discontent with...read more »

The Portsmouth Supporters Trust are on the verge of something wonderful. Regaining ownership of their beloved club that has been ruined and financially torn apart. When, as expected in the end of January, the Supporters Trust takeover at Fratton Park...read more »

Over the years money has completely transformed football as we know it, to the extent where people who have no footballing background or interests are turning a sport into a business pumped full of money, that is lost as easily...read more »

Last Tuesday, I turned 21 years old! (Happy birthday to me…). And amongst all the celebrations of hitting such a landmark age, it got me thinking of all the different things that football has taught me throughout my years so...read more »

Autumnal winds of change have blown through the npower Championship, as six of the division’s sides underwent a change of management. Prompted by Owen Coyle’s sacking at Bolton at the start of October, the floodgates opened, and the managerial merry-go-round...read more »

For some, the game of football is just that, a game. For some others, me included, it is life. Being in that group makes me care about the game and think about it, sometimes a bit too much. Here are...read more »