Duncan Barkes

And at Pompey Sound, we've made the right noises in the direction of the possibility that now he's home again.

Now he's back on the island.

Now he's back where he was born and bred and buttered.

And how much must he have enjoyed running out onto the pitch again?

when did he come on, against Southampton and doing what he did.

Because his love, being a Pompey fan as a boy, his love for Pompey is almost matched by his disregard for Southampton.

So he's very lucky to be back home.

I believe he's got a young family, that's entirely his business, but he is able to bring them up in surrounds that are familiar to him.

Like we were saying about Matt Ritchie when he came back, Marlon Pack knows where all the fish and chip shops are on the island, right?

That's, of course, unless they're brand new, because the island doesn't change an awful lot, and...

A homecoming.

It beats so many other false dawns, false pleasures.

A homecoming.

So, we're lucky to have him, and he's lucky to have us, and hopefully we've got him for a good bit longer.

To be clear, and to a certain extent I'm saying this out loud to see if it sounds authentic, we didn't discover Teo Singer.

He came to us from elsewhere four years ago, so he would have been early to mid-teens, but we have turned him into somebody that

A championship club, Portsmouth, feel deserves to be signed up.

We need to sign him up because he has potential.

Potential to score goals for us and potential possibly on the transfer scene if it's decided that we want to cash in.

But we put a lot of time and effort and thought and intelligence into developing him.