Duncan Barkes
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How he's worked his way into our affections has been surprising, hugely surprising, and a real bonus.
And, of course, he's such a bonus that when we miss him, we really miss him.
So it remains to be seen what the midfield looks like against Norwich and in the upcoming games thereafter.
It seems as though John Messina is hoping that he might be fit for Leicester, which of course will be at least as crucial a clash as the Oxford one.
Norwich game is being billed as crucial but Steve Bone amongst others who have given this a lot of thought says the Norwich game is not that important it's the Oxford game and the Leicester game those are the ones that if we can get six points from those two well happy days as ever the football news agency the 72 have asked their top football writers to predict the outcome of Friday's game against Norwich
The thing is, it's a mugs game, isn't it?
Offering predictions to matches, football matches, league football matches, in leagues where anybody can beat anybody.
The results often go according to the form book, but equally, they all too often go against the form book.
And one of the things that always surprises us, talking amongst ourselves at Pompey Sound, is that almost everybody who offers a prediction offers a predictable prediction.
you can more easily predict the prediction that they're going to make than they can predict the outcome of the game.
And I got the impression from listening to what those two guys at the 72, and I sympathise with them, it's a difficult thing to have to do.
What I got the impression, and I may be completely wrong, of is that they are still smarting from the fact that neither of them, none of them, came close to the correct score against QPR.
It was so unexpected, so unlikely.
It remains the unlikeliest scoreline in the history of modern statistics being analysed, kept and analysed by supercomputers, by AI.
It's the most surprising result.
Just to remind, six touches in our area, six goals.