Duncan Barkes

Steve, good day, welcome, and what about that red card?

Yeah, naturally, the views of Pompey fans are biased.

You would expect them to be biased.

I'm biased.

And I dare say you would admit that you are slightly biased as well as a fan.

But as a journalist, you're saying it was close, but probably not quite a red card.

Have I got that right?

people in a room miles away to have a look at it and then decide if it's going to stand or not and bring the referee over to have a look at it on the monitor how long do you think the delay would have been how many angles would they have wanted to have seen that from and how many times would they wanted to have viewed it over and over again in slow motion in real time back in slow motion from the other angle from slow motion it would have been seven to ten minutes don't you think

We could talk about the red card incident all day.

But moving on, I never rated Hackett as a referee and I don't rate him as a gob on a stick either.

Because as you hinted, very professionally, I thought, if I may say so, he's paid to be colourful.

I have to get your comment on this.

A player, a Pompey player, and I'm not going to name him, appears to have come out and said that there is a possibility that one day...

The broadcasters will get their hands on football to such an extent that they're able to say to somebody who can make a game look as interesting as possible and a bottom of the table championship match does possibly need a little bit of stimulating and we'll end up with WWE instead of football.

WWE instead of football.

Very wise words.

OK, but let's finally bury that one.

Although, of course, we will be without Conor Ogilvie probably for three games unless the appeal is successful, which you quite rightly say is highly unlikely.

What did you think of Williams' performance when he came on in the 18th minute at left back?

There have been one or two mild murmurings about Nicola Schmidt lately and somebody who ought to know better, so I won't name that person, said that his kicking recently has become awful.