Duncan Barkes

with what football brings us.

And what did that bring us?

Middlesbrough 0, Pompey 1.

Whether you saw the game or not, I was lucky enough to find a means of watching it.

If you were just listening, the commentary was fantastic.

And both pleasantly biased, but at the same time, objective and neutral.

The simple fact of the matter is that Pompey came to get a draw.

I don't think anybody would argue with that.

It's now five past five, ten minutes after the final whistle, which could have gone before the corner that we converted.

But anyway, come back to that.

You know, we would have taken a draw.

We were playing for the draw.

The commentators, you know, Guy Whittingham was saying, this is it.

We just have to keep it like this because, you know, if you'd offered us a draw before the game, we'd have bitten your hand off.

And we would.

We absolutely would.

And then they did a brilliant bit of commentary, which was going up for the corner with 96 minutes gone.

Well, six minutes gone in the second half of six minutes of added on time.

So really, you know, you could argue we shouldn't have been given that corner, allowed that corner.

But I think the corner was conceded within the added time.