Duncan Barkes

And if you damn him for that, then you're damning half the Pompey squad.

who are regularly injured and not able to play.

John Massino knows what he's talking about.

John Massino says he wants Lang to stay.

He almost says he's desperate for Lang to stay.

He wants Lang out there on the grass, on the pitch, in a match, in a blue shirt, from the start.

That's what he wants.

And Steve laments the fact that there are fans who could upset a player if they bother with social media.

And we think they do.

It's hard to avoid.

It's hard to resist the temptation.

So it may well have an impact on Lang.

Let's hope it doesn't.

Because the response to the possibility that he might be going to Preston North End first for one and a half million and then the rumour was that they'd upped it to two million has got a lot of reaction and the wrong reaction from people who,

Should have known for years what a quad is and where it is.

It turns out to be the largest muscle group in the upper leg, what we used to call the thigh.

And the fact that nothing has been set in stone as to how bad the injury is or even what the exact nature of the injury is, just that its location is in that part of the body which is referred to as the quad, means that there is hope.

But you have to be careful with hope.

As John Cleese says in a film called Clockwise, I can handle the disappointment.

It's the hope I can't deal with.