Duncan Barkes

A sports star...

wanted to refuse to stand for the American National Anthem.

That's right.

And so his mark of whatever respect he had for another cause

Yes.

Was to kneel on one knee and it took off.

Yes, it did.

Speaking of this, do you miss the days when football transfers could take place at any time during the season?

It used to lift an otherwise ordinary Wednesday in...

October or February, say, to wake up, grab your paper and discover that there's been a huge transfer.

Somebody's been bought from abroad for however many years.

And it would just give you just a little peak of interest.

Do you think any team has ever gone through the January window and done nothing, brought nobody in and let nobody go?

speaking of ins and outs I wanted to ask you about something that cropped up in yesterday's news bulletin on Pompey Sound and that is someone who purely for dramatic effect we were calling Pompey's forgotten man and in a way he is because he doesn't get talked about one way or another and that is Australian Thomas Waddingham

Well, the record books say he's appeared for us five times this season, but racking my brains, I can't picture it.

It must have been a last-minute substitution.

It must have been early on.

Before we got used to the fact that Mackenzie Kirk appears to have more to offer

I wanted to ask you this, but I thought I'd wait until the right moment.

And it is really one of Harry Regnap's biographies.