BLACKBURN 1 POMPEY 1

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Why do fans feel gutted after the Blackburn 1 Pompey 1 match?

Duncan Barkes 0:00

Blackburn 1 Pompey 1 now if you look at the bald score line you know towards the end of the season we'll look at our results and we'll go yeah we got a point at Blackburn that's not bad going that'll do that helped us but at this moment in time two minutes after the final whistles gone we feel gutted we feel absolutely and utterly crestfallen and we feel robbed did we rob ourselves or did did did they come and mug us it's a bit of both uh blair has a number of great strengths but he's not a left back i mean what was he doing there isn't that where swanson's supposed to be playing eliminating the threat from their forward right wing but It didn't work out that way. I'm not going to blame anybody for that.

Duncan Barkes 1:02

I'm talking about their equalising goal, because I don't know if you've noticed, but when you watch a football match, the last 10 or 15 minutes, when the game is over and you're on your way home or whatever, the last 10 or 15 minutes loom far larger than the preceding hour and a bit. That's the way our memory works. And we experienced... the elation of possibly coming away with three points. And it was wonderful to see Connor Ogilvie on the score sheet. He is such a soldier of ours. He is such a trooper of ours. He defended as a centre-half absolutely magnificently. He won so many big aerial combats and he is not the tallest guy on the pitch. When Regan Paul had to go off and we brought on the tallest man on the pitch, the wonderful Connor Shocknessy, the game changed slightly.

Duncan Barkes 2:04

Seggs came on and he takes a nice corner. I'm not saying that Chaplin doesn't, but Seggs takes a nice corner. He fires it in and he would have been looking for Shocknessy's head. And if you watched Pompey play the love train thing for corners, they had initially Pack shielding colby bishop but once shockness he came on pack and bishop were shielding shocknessy because he is our best bet for converting a corner into a headed goal and shocknessy also defended of course extremely well oh please may he stay fit dear goodness may he stay fit could be the difference yeah Even tried an overhead bicycle kick. Who does he think he is? Wayne Rooney? Why not? You know, bicycle kick in their box. I think when the score was a one-all and we had a chance of maybe making it 2-1.

Duncan Barkes 3:06

Didn't ever really look like it. It's one-all a fair score. Who cares? It hurt. But let's do it anyway. Probably was about fair. The commentators that I was listening to, the Redoubtable Moon and Whittingham, aren't they good? they were saying that Blackburn played the first half as though they were the away side. And that's what it looked like. They played five at the back. That meant that our wingers had very little space to operate in. I mean, Blackburn said that they set up, you know, with three at the back, you know, but that is cobblers. They had five at the back. They had a man wide on the left and on the right. to handle our wingers. It's a compliment to our wingers. It's a compliment to how much respect the opposition, and on this occasion, Blackburn, have for Pompey, that they played the way that they did in the first half.

Duncan Barkes 4:04

Some commentators said they came out for the second half looking more meaningful, looking like they wanted it. And, you know, there are fans who will say, well, I obviously got the hairdryer treatment at halftime. No, no, no, no, no. Their manager, O'Neill, is much shrewder than that. And they had a game plan. And for about five minutes into the second half, for the 10 minutes after that, they'd rather got hold of the game, didn't they? It was a game when the sides took it in turns to have good passages. They started well in the first half. And then we got back into it. And we got hold of the game. They threatened, they had that opportunity that, I forget which Blackburn player it was, was right through on goal, an excellent cross.

Duncan Barkes 4:57

Couldn't keep it down. It amounts to a howler. It was an open goal. There was only the keeper to beat. And you put that six feet over the bar, from six yards out, that's going to be on YouTube for a long time, which that particular player doesn't want.