Chapter 1: What was the final score of the Millwall vs. Pompey match?
Millwall 1, Pompey 3. Worth saying again, Millwall 1, Millwall who reckon they might be in the Premier League next season, 1. Pompey, who some people think might go down, 3. And it was 1-3 as well. There was nothing fluky about it at all from what I can glean, what I can perceive after the game. Because as happens with every football fan around,
hopefully just sort of once in a blue moon, I had to miss everything about the game. I couldn't even keep up following texts. I certainly couldn't follow it using audio. I was away from home, so I just had no means of knowing what was going on.
Twice, I think, during the game, I checked my phone and I saw, first of all, that we were suddenly, well, it was nil-nil, and then suddenly we were two nil up. You've done this, you've been there. you're not at the game. You're not watching the game. You're not listening to the game. You're not keeping up with anything that's going on in the game. But I checked in again after about an hour.
So that would have been, what would that have been? Four o'clock, something like that, 4.15. And we were 2-0 up. And I checked the goal scorers and I thought, oh, terrific. Caballero is starting to make his mark. And then... And then, oh, and Swifty's got one. I thought, oh, that's good as well, because he's really growing into his game, isn't he?
I thought, that's going to do him the power of good. And then, because of what was going on, I couldn't find out anything until about 10 minutes, 20 minutes, half an hour after the game, when I checked my phone again, BBC Sport Football Championship scores and fixtures, we won 3-1. It's now Sunday morning and I'm just about getting myself together again.
I will tell you what happened because it's an indication of the fact that life is more important than football. It doesn't matter what Bill Shankly says. Do you remember that Bill Shankly quote?
He said, there are people who think that football is more important than life and death. It isn't.
Football is more important than life and death. I don't know. I can't remember. I'm... Because yesterday was a difficult day. We've been looking after a toddler whose parents are away at the minute. They can't help it. They've got to be away. But the toddler is recovering from chicken pox.
And yesterday, in the wee small hours of the morning, developed a viral infection, was struggling to breathe, was very feverish, very unhappy, crying a lot. And so
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Chapter 2: What were the key moments leading to Pompey's 3-1 victory?
So we did that at 10 o'clock in the morning, and obviously I had my phone with me because your phone goes everywhere, but I knew then that I wasn't going to be able to have any kind of personal interaction with this game, this match, Millwall versus Pompey. And I'm sure you've been there. You just resign yourself to it. Some things are more important than football.
But the good news, of course, the great news, even greater than Millwall 1, Pompey 3, by a distance, they're not in the same county, is that the toddler is now fine. Ended up in A&E, ended up...
having all the examinations ended up being there all day because they didn't want to send the child home with us in case there was any any danger at all but that happened and we got home about half an hour after the final whistle and there were so many other things to do that i've only just got round to appraising the game and you know far more about it than i do because at the very least surely you will have listened on the bbc
Maybe you don't. There is a member of the Mussino family who I know very well who can't bring himself. If he's not there, he can't bring himself to keep up with what's going on because he finds the wonderful stress levels too much. So he finds out afterwards what the score was. I don't have that kind of self-restraint. Good Pompey fan, good listener. I doubt whether many have.
But I started to get back into the game. And then I came into the Pompey Sound studio this morning to sort out Pompey Sound output and get some news and some information and some reaction and some words from John Massino and things like that, that you do. And the studio had imploded. The studio, almost in sympathy with the studio,
The post-Chickenpox viral outbreak that the toddler dealt with, the studio was having a viral outbreak. So I had to get a screwdriver out and lie on my back underneath it with a torch in my mouth, which is what you do because we haven't got one of those head...
light things that I look very good I must get one of those and I unscrewed everything and it was a hardware job and I replaced the part and and here we are back up and running but let's go to the game shall we and as I say you know more about it than I do but I have looked at the two minutes of highlights that are available on YouTube and my first point that occurred to me when I was in the hospital Caballero has hit the ground running
And we absolutely love that. His goal was brilliantly taken. He was just too quick for the defender, their number six. He was running with the ball, Caballera, but he left the number six. So we know he's quick. I think we suspected that. John Massino has said so. Quick is very important if you're playing out wide. He out-sprinted the guy, carrying the ball.
Not only that, he looked stronger than their number six. And it's very rare for somebody playing as a winger to be stronger than a covering centre-back.
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Chapter 3: How did Caballero perform during the game?
Covering centre-backs, these days especially, gone are the days of Billy Wright and Bobby Moore and people you probably... barely heard of, who were five foot eight, they're all strapping. But this fellow was not dwarfed by Caballero, but he almost held off a physical challenge on Caballero for fear of being brushed aside. We love that. We love that. And Caballero had a decent shot.
His first time shot was decent. It was parried away by the keeper. He'll wish he'd put it round for a corner. But it came at him so fast, he didn't really have time to react. He just put out a hand or two. And then it fell to Caballero again. Really tight angle. And he did not muck about. He didn't take another touch. He just whacked it into the net. High and hard and fast. And off he went.
Chapter 4: What impact did Swifty have on the match?
I always think to myself, I'd love to be these guys who arrive at a club with a vocal, passionate fan base like Pompey. We're not alone, but we are up there with the very best worldwide. And you score a goal. Somebody told me, I read somewhere that there were 3000 travelling fans there and he scored it right in front of them. And he just became one of them.
He became one of the travelling faithful and must have felt $10 million. You know, they say you feel a million dollars. He must have felt $100 million. So Pompey won. Well, nil all nil, Pompey won. And then we started to... Hey, wait for this. I've been waiting to say this for so long. We started to dominate the set pieces. We dominated the set pieces.
We were absolutely potent, really, almost poisonous with our corners. And we got one, and didn't Swifty take it well.
Chapter 5: What challenges did the host face during the game?
It's not easy threading the ball through a forest of legs and bodies, but I got the impression that's exactly what he did. The ball was pulled back to him beautifully,
by Ali who now has that pullback off I think Josh Murphy is going to have to work on his pullback because Ali's got it the penalty spot it's a standard thing in football especially at the highest level you pull it back rather than put it across the face of goal we've got a couple now from that technique and it worked perfectly well perfectly well it was 2-0 and it was swifty
And he's growing into his role at the number 10. He's got that number 10 role. Goodness knows what's going to happen when Connor Chaplin is 100%. But at the moment, I would say, wouldn't you? Swifty's got first dibs on the number 10 shirt role. So that was it. Halftime 2-0. Yeah, I think. And then they pulled one back going the other way. Turn around and they pulled one back.
Could we have stopped it? It was a shot that might have been blocked. Again, it threaded through a bunch of players and curved in exactly the right way. So that I would think it's fair to say that Schmidt had no chance with it. He didn't seem particularly aggrieved. But again, I'm only watching highlights that the shot had been got off. But it was got off and it made the score 1-2.
So it could have been a nervy last 20 minutes of the game. But up steps Marlon Pack. Marlon Pack. And this is where our set-piece dominance produced results. A perfect corner. The ball was not quite dealt with by them and we couldn't make anything of it, a goal-scoring opportunity, but it fell to Marlon and he found the back of the net. It was a good strike, solid strike.
The ball was on an upward trajectory when it hit the back of the net. It was travelling. It was a no-nonsense goal from a no-nonsense player. And there was something no-nonsense about his celebrations as well. He doesn't score so many goals. I'm not sure how many career goals he's got at the top level. I must look it up. Plenty. Well, I say plenty. A good few.
He's scored, for us, since he's come back. Can't remember how many exactly. A wee handful. But this one...
He scored and again he turned and he acknowledged the joy of the fans with that, I don't know if it's his trademark goal celebration, which is to run away with one hand in the air, like Alan Shearer used to, if you go back that far, he had this pathetic goal celebration with one hand limply up in the air, the elbow bent and he ran away with a confident grin on his face and
Paki did exactly the same thing. And Paki, I'm sorry, I don't know what his nickname is. I doubt it's Paki. But 3-1. We did it. We won. We saw them off. A team that I think have been unbeaten in eight of their last nine or something like that. A team that I think the fans and maybe the players and the staff, the coaching staff, were expecting a win.
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