Duncan Barkes

They kind of got stuck in, but not in a valuable way.

They were physical.

The referee had a great game, letting everything go if he could, when he could, and that benefited both sides in the end.

50-50 if you do that.

And the game got some momentum, although there was an awful lot of bagatelle being played around the centre circle.

But that's modern football with players being so fit and everybody pressing.

So ping pong, ping pong.

You know, an ownership of the ball is being traded on a one-pass basis.

It's not pretty to watch, but it's committed, it's industrious, it's muscular, it's sweaty, and occasionally it's skillful, and it seems as though we don't mind, especially with a scoreline like that.

Individual players all had a great game.

It's a real pity that Swift made...

an unrealistic attempt at a through pass when he could have, if you look at it again, he could have played a much more piercing pass by going wide to a Pompey player.

I think it may have been an overlap from Devlin or maybe it was Lang, but he had a much simpler pass on than the one that he tried to thread through to Min Hyuk Yang, which wasn't on.

from before he struck the ball the guy had been closed down and was between Swift and Yang and so the ball was easily intercepted not just Yang swallowed up in a big tackle the ball was intercepted cleanly and they were away and when I say they were away the ball was in the net

10 seconds later, because a couple of Pompey defenders had moved forward in order to shore up our attempt to take the lead.

It was nil-nil at the time, obviously.

And there fell a cut inside.

It was Dezell, wasn't it, who was left with the job of trying to close him down.

Didn't manage to do it.

Slapped his thighs with his hands when the ball went in the back of the net.