Duncan Barkes

The Leicester City fans' website, Foxes of Leicester, normally an entirely respected and respectful organisation.

organ, has pushed its luck by comparing Pompey fans with Leicester fans.

You would, I hope, expect us at Pompey Sound to bat away claims by Leicester fans that they are as good as the Pompey faithful and so we're going to because we genuinely believe it.

It's impossible to make a comparison that stands up

Pompey fans are famous up and down the country, not just for the loud noise they make, but for their absolute unstinting loyalty.

Because loyalty is something that is exposed through the bad times.

And the last 15, 20 years, we've had bad times.

We won an FA Cup, got to a final, but that is nearly 20 years ago.

And the highlight since then has been staying alive and winning League One, winning the title, getting out of League Two, getting out of League One, winning the title.

Those are our highlights.

And through all those hard times, all those terrible bad times,

Coming so close to being extinguished, the fans remained so loyal that they pitched in and financially saved the club from extermination.

That's what we've been through.

Leicester, over a similar period, they won the Premier League.

How hard is it to be a fan when your team win the Premier League?

You're not going to be booing them, are you, all the way off the pitch, ever.

that memory should live in their minds for decades.

There should not be a single boo heard for any performance at Leicester because of what the club gave those fans.

Just doing that.

And the following year, I think if I'm right, they got to the quarterfinals of the Champions League.