Steve Bone

And it was Colin Farmery, who I know you've had on Pompey Sound once or twice, very well known in the Pompey circles.

He put me right and he said, sorry, it wasn't 1-1.

Pompey lost that day and it was 1-0 to Arsenal.

Despite that, I was still hooked on Pompey.

Yeah, stood on the Milton end.

I was, what was I, 11.

Yeah, you had to find the right spot to be in, although because it was a friendly, it wasn't a packed ground.

It was decent attendance, I think, but I think we found somewhere that I could see enough of what was going on.

There were other games after that in my younger years where I didn't see much at all.

But yeah, it doesn't happen so much now in the seats, does it?

But yeah, it used to be one of the perils of taking a young kid along.

Yeah.

Tempted to tap him on the shoulder and say, Mike, can we swap seats so that I can see better?

Yeah, I bet he wished he'd had one.

There we go.

I'm sure he can afford one.

yeah the taking of the knee from the start it caused a bit of division didn't it because there were well I think when it started teams were playing behind closed doors I seem to remember it was in the Covid era

so they could take the knee and no one would be able to express any view on it.

But as soon as crowds came back and there were teams taking the knee, which I think originally started out as support for the Black Lives Matter campaign, there were sections of fans who didn't think, for whatever reason, footballers should be doing that and let their feelings known.

But like everything, you know, like Arsenal's all white, these things run their course, don't they?