Duncan Barkes

Proper games of proper professional football kicking off at three o'clock in the afternoon.

That's what you're supposed to do.

So that it's semi-dark when you come out of the ground and you walk past the hamburgers and the hot dog joints and the fish and chip shops and the hot potato stands and get to the station and stand there knowing that you possibly got a hot pot or at least a cheese sandwich when you get home because you're going to need supper, not a late lunch.

It's all wrong and we'll come back to that another time.

Meantime, let's look at it in the cold light of day.

We went to Blackburn, a 10-hour round trip, and we got a point.

We got a point.

Blackburn won.

Pompey won.

Steve Bone joins Pompey Sound with an absolute encyclopedia of things.

Well, Steve, to rant about, what do you want to rant about first?

You're about to find out now.

Oh, no, I don't know.

games a particular club can have changed once the season starts do you happen to know where the clubs are in fact in this day and age now now earning more from television rights which of course are heavily uh connected with um gambling firms than they are from attendance money ticket money

Now, I know you're buzzing with bees in your bonnet today, and this is fantastic, but just before we leave kick-offs and schedules to one side, I think you've covered that well, and I agree wholeheartedly, and I think everybody listening would with everything that you've got to say.

I do want to get your reaction to this.

Did a bit of research into the fact that Pompey looked tired against Hull.

Everybody said so, that I talked to.

And so I looked at it and the previous five games, four of them for Pompey had been away, two of them, four and a half hour trips there and four and a half hour trips back.

And even London now is two hours from Fratton Park to the Den or wherever, okay?