MICK DUMPS ON THE AWAY FANS

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What emotions do last-minute goals evoke in football fans?

0:02

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.

How did the presence of Charlton fans enhance the match experience?

1:03

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.

What does the viral video reveal about football's joy and despair?

2:23

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

3:47

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.

How do fans react to unexpected goals during a match?

4:18

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.

What performance issues were highlighted in the Pompey vs. Charlton game?

5:16

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.

Which players showed promise and potential in the recent match?

6:22

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.