M'BORO 0 POMPEY 1

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What was the outcome of the Middlesbrough vs. Pompey game?

Duncan Barkes 0:00

Middlesbrough nil Pompey one Middlesbrough nil Pompey one oh you know you sometimes meet those people who don't like sport and you don't really bother to have a conversation with them because they've got nothing to talk about You know, if a bloke comes round to fix your drain, you very quickly find out what his team is. Spurs, in the case of the bloke who came round to sort out our drain. So the conversation flew. It was magnificent. He fixed the drain. Then I made a pot of tea and we sat at the kitchen table and talked about... You know, deserbian things. It was intimate and engaging and exciting. And what about that game of football?

How does the speaker describe the emotional connection to football?

Duncan Barkes 0:55

Right there. Middlesbrough 0, Pompey 1. I mean, wouldn't you go to your grave? If you had to say, what would you like your last game to be? I think quite a few of us would say, that'll do it.

1:10

That'll do it.

Duncan Barkes 1:12

And here's the reason. We've had very... I'm just going to open another... Only my third Peroni, all right, through the game. But I'm going to open it and take it outside because I like the fresh air after a game of football. Simple as that. So these people who don't know football and don't get football, you can't explain it to them, what it gives you. It's almost as though they're anaesthetised. And we're not. If anything, our sensory perceptions have been heightened through life by what football nurtures in us. Our love for our loved ones, our friendship with our friends, our solidarity where appropriate with our colleagues, our work ethic, our honesty, our decency. It's all interrelated. with what football brings us.

Duncan Barkes 2:19

And what did that bring us? Middlesbrough 0, Pompey 1.

What insights are shared about the performance of the Pompey team?

Duncan Barkes 2:27

Whether you saw the game or not, I was lucky enough to find a means of watching it. If you were just listening, the commentary was fantastic. And both pleasantly biased, but at the same time, objective and neutral. The simple fact of the matter is that Pompey came to get a draw. I don't think anybody would argue with that. It's now five past five, ten minutes after the final whistle, which could have gone before the corner that we converted. But anyway, come back to that. You know, we would have taken a draw. We were playing for the draw. The commentators, you know, Guy Whittingham was saying, this is it. We just have to keep it like this because, you know, if you'd offered us a draw before the game, we'd have bitten your hand off.

Duncan Barkes 3:20

And we would. We absolutely would. And then they did a brilliant bit of commentary, which was going up for the corner with 96 minutes gone. Well, six minutes gone in the second half of six minutes of added on time. So really, you know, you could argue we shouldn't have been given that corner, allowed that corner. But I think the corner was conceded within the added time. and therefore it has to be taken and it was taken and it was nodded out and one of our players whacked it in and conor chapman did something that i've only ever seen on film because i've never been to a bullfight he did something i've only ever seen on film bullfighters do which is to sort of stand up proud hands out of the way in the case of bullfighters they're holding swords but he wasn't

Duncan Barkes 4:11

and the bull kind of just glances their hips their pelvic region and that's what he did whether he was trying to apply a finishing touch or whether he was trying to get out of the way of the ball no one will ever know except him but he shot a glance over his shoulder towards The lino and the goal stood and off he went.

How did the commentary enhance the experience of the game?

Duncan Barkes 4:41

And I think he got so exuberant about life. And everything that after the game, I think he was yellow carded for some kind of dispute. A dispute. With one of the Middlesbrough. Because it kicked off a little bit after the game. Sadly, the cameras didn't linger on it. You know, you're supposed to disapprove of that kind of thing going on. But look. we know these guys are paid quite a lot of money, but we also, we want them to care. We want them to stand up for themselves, stand up for us. And that's what happened immediately after the game. And I dare say there'll be minor recriminations on that.