MICK ON MISERY
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What are Mick's thoughts on the recent match performance?
Sounders, hello, it's Mick, here with just a few thoughts about Saturday. Of course, a very good day for us all. I can't remember the last two-goal lead at half-time, can you? It may have been very recently, but I don't think so. Two goals ahead at half-time, I don't know. The smiles in the lounge at half-time were numerous, even Johnny Moore. But always with football fans, there's caution. The Albion will get a rollicking after that. There'll be a different team second half. That was really the theme of most of the conversations, even when you're two up. Well, on this occasion, they, we, were all wrong. West Bromwich Albion were bad in the first half and they were poor again. in the second half. I happened to bump into Greg Miller, sadly leaving his post of leadership of our academy division as his long-term venture starts to bear fruit at Pompey and he's off to Charlton Athletic.
Do they still call themselves Charlton Athletic? I hope so. I do anyway. Anyway, he said he can't remember having seen a worse display for an opposition at Fratton Park. I have a good mate who's a baggy. Born in Bromwich. Family of season ticket holders. Went for decades and decades. Got the same passion for the baggies as we all have for Pompey. So I like him a lot, this bloke. I invited him to the game. He said he couldn't come unless he could go in the away end. And of course, the away end was sold out. So he didn't come. And then he said to me, he's going to the cinema at three o'clock on Saturday instead. Ten away defeats in a row. Interrupted just by the last time out, they got a late last minute equaliser at Derby, but 10 away defeats in a row had sapped his energy.
He's lost faith in his team and the new manager. Nonetheless, West Brom sold out their Milton End allocation and you couldn't blame their fans turning on the team after that display. Of course, I've heard us chanting, you're not fit to wear the shirt a few times over a long, long, long, long following of Pompey. I can't remember the last time. I can't remember the detail of it. I'd have to look it up a bit. But it's just a very few occasions that it's happened in my lifetime. But I can't recall... the chant ringing out from away fans at Fratton. And of course that probably has happened before, but it was distinctive. You could hear it all around the ground. It was a sad thing to listen to after West Brom got thumped by us.
Why do Baggies fans feel despair after the game?
And I've never actually seen a footballer look to taking it to his own fans in retaliation, like Isaac Price did, their midfield player, who had to be sort of held back by one of his mates. I mean, he really wanted to get down there and get stuck in, I think. But maybe he should have done that on the pitch. He did, after all, play the entire 90 minutes. but anyway he took a lot of abuse from those fans of his and the team will do well to turn that shipwreck around but West Bromwich Albion are a big club and of course there's a long way to go in the season and poor as they were you've still got to beat them And we did 3-0. It could have been more, but it's still three. And with two goals from our new signings and a cracker from Conor Chaplin.
Conor has to be forgiven for shouting F asterix, asterix, asterix, asterix off. He didn't actually say that, you understand, but you know what I mean, he said. In celebration of his goal, the length of his barren spell, he won't probably have ever had since he started kicking a football around at six. He won't have ever had a length of time like that without scoring a goal. And it was obviously far too long for him. And it was also too long for some fans who'd started to question his value to the squad. And it would have hurt him that. It would have hurt him badly to read some of the social media comments. So, none of us will blame him at all, I'm sure, for getting the pain off his chest by... by just letting out a few words.
So, all in all, a great afternoon for us. All our players who got on the pitch deserve credit, especially, I think, Swanson and Devlin, justifying our much-maligned policy of signing potential, and the ever-reliable Andre Dizel.
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