Duncan Barkes

And so are we.

you score and you score a goal that brings brings the score level against your new team's deadly rival and you do that you know you can play as well as you like but nothing quite underlines your contribution to a game like scoring a goal like scoring a meaningful goal

If it's 3-0 and you score the fourth, ah, that's great, you know, that's something.

If you're 2-0 down and with two minutes to go you score a, you know, consolation goal, that's something.

But if you score, as he did, the goal that 20,000 men, women and children craved, craved, then of course you run the length of the pitch.

Of course you run the length of the pitch down to the front end and congratulate them back.

Because they were cheering him.

I don't think they knew that he'd got the goal.

I think most of the front end thought that somebody had got the goal and it meant more to Adams than anybody else.

Well, it did mean more to Adams than anybody else because he scored it.

But what they saw was a Pompey player who, instead of going to the nearest corner flag to celebrate the goal, he went to them.

He went to them and said, hey, it's me and you lot against the world from now until the end of time.

So we go home happy as Larry.

They go home hang dog.

Wondering what might have been.

It wasn't.

We move out of the bottom three.

OK, not by any great shakes, but looking at the table as it stands now, there are five or six teams that we are going to have to get above in order to have a comfortable end to the season.

And when you look at recent results, the last seven or eight games that we played, we're on our way.

We are.