Steve Bone

No, it was a bit after that, so it was...

I can't be sure if these both played on that day, but their regular two up front at that time were Frank Stapleton and Alan Sunderland.

Oh, Alan Sunderland.

Which is not a bad duo, is it?

1-0 to Arsenal, unfortunately.

And I forget now who scored the goal, but for years afterwards...

I was convinced it had finished 1-1.

And it was only about 20 years later I was saying, oh yeah, my first game was a draw, a pre-season friendly draw between Pompey and Arsenal.

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.