Duncan Barkes

Wherever he plays, he prefers the North East and he likes to live in his home city of Liverpool.

And Liverpudlians, Scousers, are wonderfully, mostly wonderfully, nostalgic, sentimental and very loyal to their city.

I remember a joke I heard a semi-comedian say that he found himself in Liverpool one night, went to a pub and there was a pub quiz.

So he entered it and because he didn't understand, he simply wrote Stephen Gerrard or The Beatles as an answer to every question.

And apparently he came second.

That's how much they love their city.

And there's a lot to be said for that.

So farewell Callum Lang.

Apparently it got even nastier than we'll ever know.

Allegedly got even nastier than we'll ever know.

The whole saga, Friday, Saturday, Sunday.

and then the Monday deadline right up till 7pm and it must have been a nightmare for him going up and down the M6 one minute he's a Preston player and then he's back to being a Pompey player and he says and you believe him that he plays his heart out whatever shirt he's wearing and as memories of him begin to recede one of the last memories that will go I hope is

is how much he tried for us.

And, ooh, that multi-goal game.

What a memory that is.

So, good luck to you, family man, Callum Lang, but don't do it against us.

Thank you.

We welcome Steve Bone to the Pompey Sound microphone.

Steve, are you well?

And what is running through your fine mind at this minute in time about Pompey?