Chapter 1: What emotions do last-minute goals evoke in football fans?
Hello Sounders, it's Mick croaking at you after Charlton. How are you feeling? I know how you're feeling. Good, that's how. Last minute goals that win Pompey a game are always joyous moments. They're rare, of course. But it's not the rarity, it's the release.
After 90 plus minutes of all that tension, the endorphin flood of that makes you shout, yes, yes, until there's no breath left in your body as you seek to engage everyone around you, whether you know them well or not, in a tribal celebration as old as humanity is. here on Earth. Victory.
Chapter 2: How did the presence of Charlton fans enhance the match experience?
The win is ours. Players, Pompey coaches and staff and us, the supporters in a lockstep of delight. And that, Sounders, is why we're feeling good. I have to say that the presence of 2,000 plus Charlton fans enhanced the experience and there is this remarkable phone video.
Many of you will have seen it, I'm sure, of the two minutes or so climax to the match from the Charlton point of view, from the Milton end. And it sort of sums up football. It's joy and despair. in a quite visceral, remarkable way.
And I commend the Charlton fan who I, the video I particularly liked, the Charlton fan who had the balls to post that because it exposes mob mentality in a pretty sharp and you might say pretty horrible way.
Chapter 3: What does the viral video reveal about football's joy and despair?
Charlton played poorly, yet after 90 minutes, They probably felt they deserved a point from a game they'd been unable to control. And so they were overjoyed over the moon when they scored in that sort of 94, 95 minute mark. And they took it out on our North Stand Milton End Warriors, who absorbed the brunt of away support at Fratton home games after home games all season.
And the Charlton started to sing. And it's all seen on this video. Masses of them, crowds of them. And they were all there, they were all up, they were all standing, they were all looking at the Pompey fans in the North Stand and they were all singing, We Never Lose at Fratton Park. And as the V signs and worse rained down, deluged from the Milton End aimed at all of us, we, Sounders, we scored
And amid the silence of horror and depression instantaneously visited on stunned Charlton minds, one Charlton fan in this video is heard mumbling, oh no, no.
Chapter 4: How do fans react to unexpected goals during a match?
It's extraordinary. You don't often hear the sounds of the vanquished, the beaten, the trodden. You don't see the detail of defeat like that. Actually, since that particular video, I've seen a few others from the Charlton End. I like the one I've described most because All you see of that whimpering fan, the no-no fan at the end, is his fingers over the back of his head.
That's all you see of him. You see a lot of other people. But that person is anonymous because it's everyone. There are others.
Chapter 5: What performance issues were highlighted in the Pompey vs. Charlton game?
There's another of a Charlton fan, selfie-ing the moment in big close-up of his face. But you feel, I feel he's posted it to make himself look important. I prefer the generality, the anonymity of defeat, which we've all experienced. And it's so almost moving in the video I've described. If you aren't a Pompey fan, that is, and you're not celebrating.
Because moving, because it's humbling, Sounders, because it shows the levels of emotion we all go through in support of our football teams. And as long as we're capable of recovery and we don't resort to hurting each other or other people, it's a wonderful thing. to have and be able to express emotion.
Chapter 6: Which players showed promise and potential in the recent match?
It's one of the things that makes us human. But we do have to let reality into the celebration, so I'll start to do that now by running through the harsh reality of the Jarton encounter through the performance of our lads, our team. Nicholas Schmidt, look, we know he's good. He is our number one. But I don't think he's quite back to the best he was before he got injured.
He made a match-winning save in the second half and he doesn't let in poor goals. But his distribution can still worry us and I think worry his teammates, put them under pressure sometimes. Lifted clearances sometimes. Overheads, too far, too deep. Over the touchline at times.
Chapter 7: What role does confidence play in a football player's performance?
Playing out from the back when opponents are closing rapidly. Signals maybe too obviously. It's sometimes nerve-wracking stuff. As long as we get away with it, I suppose, why should I complain? But it sometimes looks a bit... I realise it's our way, the playing out way, but he used to cope with a little more time and composure.
Perhaps it's simply opponents reading his and our plans more comfortably these days. I don't know. Terry Devlin. He seems almost to improve with every game.
Chapter 8: How did the team manage to win despite a poor performance?
He's really... Coming through, I'd say, in Championship football. And a credit to those who found him and those coaching him now. Confidence is all important. He was up against Murray Bell and Tyrese Campbell. The best, it seemed to me, that Charlton had to offer. And yet he gave Terry Devlin as good as he got. And that's what he does these days. Zach Swanson.
is also, I think, getting the measure of the championship and doing it what's more on his wrong foot, on the left-hand side. So, do we need another left-back with Conor Ogilvie intending a return in January? Well, somehow I would suggest not. I'm certain there are greater priorities anyway. And I'm now giving Swanson's obvious determination to start games.
I'm giving that credence and I'm thinking he deserves a place. Hayden Matthews is steadily getting fitter and stronger. There's no doubt. And I hear the crowd now. I hear them appreciating him. His touches, his interceptions, his little forward runs.
Matthews may now lose his place in the starting line-up, but I believe that central defence is now pretty well stocked at Fratton Park, certainly compared with one or two other areas of the pitch. And Matthews, if he can just start converting corners and free kicks... could make him force himself into the side. Regan Poole is full of fight. He's having a good season, I'm sure.
I think it's his best spell anyway for the club. Our problems don't start at the back. Having looked at those four and what we've got to come back, I don't think they start there. They start in midfield. Where I thought Marlon Pack had a good game, but there are a lot around me who question his presence in the side. He's got a lot of detractors. It's a bit unfair, I feel.
I'd say he's a calming influence in midfield with the experience to spot danger. And with no one at the moment to... to do that as regularly and successfully and we can rely on that. He's reliable. Andre Dizel is not just reliable, he's irreplaceable, I think. He's having a fine season, in my humble opinion. Now, here's where the problems start to appear for me. Adrian Segacic
Certainly hasn't maintained the edge he started the season with. His confidence has slowly, painfully been eroded. He's become smaller on the pitch, if you see what I mean. Because I don't mean it literally. He's lost sight of how he used to score goals. No one should doubt his effort and he's got no little ability, just he needs to find his place in the championship and within our club.
Similarly, but in very, very different circumstances, Conor Chaplin isn't making his mark on this team or this season We all hope it will click into fluid football and goals for him. But at the moment, it's just not happening for Connor. And then there's finally the two I feel will make it. But can they affect this season is the big question. Harvey Blair. Harvey Blair has quality.
We're beginning Sounders to see why we paid money for this kid. Much of the crowd, I noticed, I like this, I like this about that crowd. Much of the crowd like him already. There's a very Fratton Park quality About the buzz over a winger. I've had it. I've experienced it. I've listened to it many times over years and years and years. Going back to Reg Cutler. Peter Harris.
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