Duncan Barkes

And now they're bringing their seniority, both of them.

Swift, it's very recent.

Marlon Pack, I suspect it's simply always been there in him.

Yes, his argument there, I've seen, is that speed was never one of his great strengths.

I didn't know he'd played alongside John.

That's new to me and probably new to quite a few Pompey fans.

No, and they click, don't they?

Because if ever there's a moment he has the opportunity and he's on the pitch, Marlon will come over and have a word with John, and one sometimes isn't quite sure who's telling who.

Gordon Massino.

And you can hear the whole of the interview, it's 10 minutes, by going to our podcast platform, or your podcast platform, I should say, and inputting Pompey Sound, and you'll see it listed towards the top of the podcasts that are available.

the predictions of football news agency The 72.

Their predictions are normally not bad, which is why we bother with them on Pompey Sound.

But the last two games, both of their experts went for a Pompey defeat.

And we acknowledge that predicting the outcome of football games is a difficult business.

However, we have Steve Bone, whose unmissable weekly podcast is available, well, ad infinitum, actually.

It's always up there if you want to go back in time.

He speaks with such command and wisdom that every word is worth hearing.

He usually ends his pieces with a prediction about the next game.

And the last two games, I think he was entirely alone in predicting that we would beat Charlton and that we would get something at Millwall.

Well, we did get something.