Duncan Barkes

Hang on, just have a sip of something.

I'm just going to step outside and... Oi!

There we go.

And, yeah, we were worried about the other results.

So everyone there, I think the Pompey fans at Norwich, well done to them, of course, and quite a few people as well at home, had their phones going to see what was going on elsewhere because...

To a certain extent, in a relegation battle, you're at the hands of those who are around you as much as yourself.

Hang on, a quick sip of Peroni, forgive.

So they looked a little bit more polished than us during the first half.

We were committed because we always are, but again the 50-50s were falling to them.

I looked at a stat at the end of the game that said that Pompey had 19 interceptions and Norwich had two.

But I found myself wondering, how do you quantify an interception?

You know, if the ball, if two guys go up for a header and it could go anywhere and one of their players picks it up, is that an interception?

What is an interception?

Sometimes these stats leave you knowing less than you knew before you found out what the stats were.

But anyway.

We didn't match them in the first half.

Their goal, a lot of people will say that we defended really badly, but Norwich worked it pretty well, I thought.

And it wasn't a bad clearance by Jojo.

It was just he got his foot in the way because he had to.

The ball was coming across the goal.