Duncan Barkes

A goal of straw would have been a perfectly fair result.

The people around me were muttering the same thing when we went in for half-time, even Stephens, Honours even, you know, two pretty good sides.

one of them's fighting to get promoted, the other one's fighting to get relegated.

You explain that, because they were well-matched.

OK, they were away from home, and we were at home, so we had that advantage, but the sides looked to me to be pretty well-matched.

If anything, and I'm probably biased...

And I don't apologise for that.

We were marginally better than them.

We had more possession than them.

I believe that's a statistic which has been published and now it's out there.

We certainly had more passes inside their penalty area.

An important statistic than they did.

Shots on target.

I don't know because we had a few shots that the goalkeeper saved even though they were going wide.

But we'll come back to that.

I've made it back to the studio, but I'm very, very cold, as were all the 20,000 people watching and the 30 or 35 people who played in the game.

We had a whole team of substitutes warming up right through the first half, not because they were about to come on, because they were cold.

You know, just because the sun's out, the sun...

Okay, what does Saturday's sun at Fratton Park, for the whole of the whole game, what does Saturday's sun have in common with Pompey's shooting?

Impotent.