Duncan Barkes

Or is West Brom just a brand new chapter in Pompey's season?

He took up a lot of space himself, the lad.

I think thinking politically, I'm cautious that since the melee started on the touchline and one or two fans, several actually, who were almost certainly Pompey fans, took it on themselves to get slightly physically involved.

Although it was a nasty foul on Swanson, it was Swanson who said, yeah, I may have some of that back.

And then there was the melee.

And then there were fans getting involved.

And I think if the FA look at that, we could be in for a bigger fine than them.

You either stand there where you are with your hands on your hips and watch it going on.

Or you trot over.

You never go steaming over.

You shouldn't.

You can trot over.

And Nicholas Schmidt did.

He trotted over and he grabbed hold of one of the bigger Southampton players who was on the edge of the melee.

pulled him away i can't remember who it was but i remember him swinging round having been grabbed and realizing it must be somebody from pompey the way they were doing it and then he looked up and saw that the bloke who was pulling him off was six foot five and he sort of went yeah fair enough yes yeah you have a little splinter uh trouble bits of trouble breakout don't they when there's a mate when there's a main yeah uh clash between two um more and more getting involved you know if

Absolutely.

You're quite right about the man of the match, but there are quite a few others who would be mentioned in dispatches.

Absolutely.

He holds the ball up well, of course.

He wins so many headers when Schmidt picks him out.