Steve Bone

But we did give them the goal, didn't we?

Very disappointing manner of their goal.

We couldn't get one back ourselves.

yeah just hook it hook it into the crowd for a corner yeah yeah and he had two hard didn't he gave it gave it away and then sold nico short yeah i mean you know he's had a good season overall you can't

Ridiculous.

Absolutely stupid.

I can't believe the Football League have approved it.

I can believe the Football League have approved it because when are they ever going to listen to common sense?

I've always been against playoffs anyway.

I know we've had them now for 35, getting on for 40 years actually.

Late 80s they were brought in.

First ever article I had published in the Pompey programme, I was asked to, I was trying to get my foot in the door and there was a column, there was a page in the programme back then in the late 80s called Viewpoint at which different people were invited to send in their opinions and I did a piece on saying that these new playoffs, I said, these newfangled playoffs are very unfair because you can have a team finishing

Why should a team finishing sixth, ten points behind a team finishing third, have another chance to then knock that team out of the equation and take their place?

Which, of course, a few years later happened in that very way to us when we lost to Leicester over two legs, having finished 12 points, I think, ahead of them.

So I've always been against playoffs anyway.

I've kind of got used to them because they are part of the league season.

Everybody knows they're there and all teams know what they're going to have to do to avoid them or finish playing them.

But I think to extend it to the teams down to eighth is just madness.

Because if a team has finished eighth in the championship...

How are they going to do in the Premier League?