Chapter 1: What are the latest updates on Pompey and their upcoming match against Charlton?
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Pompey are desperate to start turning positive performances into points when they make the short trip to London to face Charlton tonight. With their rivals in the Championship survival battle not playing, it's a golden opportunity for John Massinio's men to stretch their one-point cushion over the bottom three.
They're up against a team that was in a bit of trouble themselves until a recent upturn in form eased the pressure. A goalless draw with QPR sandwiched between impressive wins over Leicester and Stoke, has seen the addicts move six points clear of the Blues, although they have played an extra game.
It's been a much-needed turnaround for Nathan Jones' side, who, after a strong start to the season had seemed to be in freefall. They earned their place in the division after finishing fifth in League One last term, getting past both Wickham and Leighton Orient in the playoffs.
When the sides met in the final game of 2025, it looked like the Londoner's excellent record at Fratton Park was set to continue. Harvey Nibbs' stoppage-time strike cancelled out Connor Shaughnessy's opener, only for a sensational last-gasp winner from Min-hyuk Yang to finally end the hoodoo.
On their last visit to the Valley back in February 2024, Pompey battled to a goalless draw on their way to clinching the Ligue 1 title. Before kick-off, a period of applause will be held in loving memory of Charlton fan Norman Headphones' Norm Barker, who sadly passed away after falling ill during the original fixture.
The applause will also be a thank you to both sets of supporters, for the incredible amount of money raised in Norm's memory. Pompey's injury curse struck again on Saturday, with Andre Dizel, ankle, and Adrian Sejic's leg both forced off. The pair will be unavailable tonight. The visitors are also without Aji Eleize, quad. Keshie Anderson, hamstring. Florian Bianchini, knee. Harvey Blair, hip.
Connor Chaplin, groin. Josh Knight, back. Mark Kosnovsky, knee. Hayden Matthews, ankle. Josh Murphy, foot. Connor Shaughnessy, quad. Franco Ume, hamstring. And Thomas Waddingham, thigh. Charlton are missing Josh Edwards, ankle. And Harvey Nibbs, ankle. While Myles Liebern, shoulder, is also a doubt.
Yeah, this is worth underlining. Charlton are missing Josh Edwards and Harvey Nibbs, and they've got Miles Liebern, a doubt.
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Chapter 2: What is the current injury situation for Pompey and Charlton?
underestimating we had to build a whole new stand sprinkler systems exits uh get rid of safe standing or standing uh food was awful and we're still working on things that i learned at disney and we like what well we had the uh when the fans were running it the management was doing great but i had them come up and go to disney university to learn the obvious which is how to take care of
the public, and we've worked on that. We've worked on everything to do with dealing with the public. And of course, we've improved the squad.
How do things stand today with the team and kind of the revitalization of it relative to where you were expecting it would be at this point?
Well, I didn't expect to win the World Series for the Angels. I didn't expect to get in the Stanley Cup for the Ducks. Nobody expected that. We've been at it for seven or eight years. The pyramid in English football, the pyramid starts with the Premier League with 20 teams, and then there's 72 teams in the EFL below the pyramid.
And we're now in the league just below the Premier League, the championship. It's very exciting and very expensive. Everybody loses money. Parliament has made a law with an administrator who's going to adjudicate how the money gets determined.
Right now, the Premier League in the media takes 96% of the revenue for 20 teams, and 4% goes to the other 72 teams, which means the other 72 teams are all losing money and going broke, except for the ones that are owned by super... billionaires and Eastern monarchs and things like that. So the economics are very difficult, but they'll get better.
Michael Eisner on how he came to be and his family, the owners of our club, Portsmouth FC. A number of interesting little tidbits in there, weren't there? One, for example, that they prowled around a couple of Premier League sides. Did I get that right? Two, he's clear, without actually going into details financially, that Pompey has been an expensive project for him.
Now, cynics will say the money that's been thrown at the facilities, the assets, is bound to be recouped at a later date in the sell-on value that the club has. But it doesn't always work like that. It simply doesn't. You cannot predict the market in that way. People put double glazing in their houses in the hope that in six months' time they can put it on the market at an inflated price.
They build extensions. They insulate the lofts. They paint the bedrooms. They do all sorts of things, hoping that the sell-on value of the item that they want to sell on is going to be enhanced by more than the cost of the improvement. But Michael Eisner is a commercial genius. one of four people who were once reputed to run the United States of America.
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