Mick

There's a bloke, to illustrate that, there's a bloke further down my row in the south stand, and he's big, he's tall, and he's hard, and he's cool, and he's late.

Pretty much every blooming game, he's late.

And you wouldn't complain.

do you know what i mean you wouldn't roll your eyes i'm on the end of the row i'm the first one he comes to to get in i'm used to him but i don't rub my eyes during this game he went for a pea sounders and when he came back i'm on the i'm sitting there and at the end of the row and i'm singing

along with a few thousand others.

And I'm intent on the game as well, and I don't see him.

Normally, he'd give me a shove and push through, but he waited.

He waited until I finished singing.

And then I see him, and he gives me a smile and a little fist bump as he goes through to his seat.

every Pompey was in it together.

Young guys around me, young blokes, I've never talked to.

And they were sharing comments about the game of players, stuff going on.

Everyone, everyone was involved.

Everyone was at it.

No other event

is like that no other communal event that you might go to and sit through is like that it is worth it it is worth the effort to go as a game there wasn't a lot of beautiful football that's got to be admitted but both sides got it there was fire and brimstone

None of our boys disappointed in that regard.

Their goal came from our constant pressure and our goal came from our constant pressure and we finished the game, again, with constant pressure.

Nothing to complain about there.

Nor of any of the individuals John Messina put out on the park.