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What were the key takeaways from the Millwall game?
For various valid reasons, nobody from Pompey Sound was able to get to the Millwall game. And since we feel it's important that we do talk to somebody who watched the game, we contacted one of the Mussino family, certain in the knowledge that they were there en masse and have a good footballing brain. And sure enough, John Mussino's dad, Gordon, was kind enough to fill me in on his views. First of all, what... are his main takeaways from the Millwall game.
The team are playing with much more confidence than they'd shown hitherto. I suspect a lot of that is down to Abu Adams and to a slightly lesser extent, Millie Alley and a rejuvenated Marlon Pack and John Swift. Mm-hmm. That's the main takeaway, really.
Yes, those last two names that you mentioned, these are, politely, they're seniors. Yes. And now they're bringing their seniority, both of them. Swift, it's very recent. Marlon Pack, I suspect it's simply always been there in him.
Well, I was at the game with, amongst others, a Millwall fan on Saturday, and he immediately clocked that Marlon... bringing his senior game, indeed, in terms of both winning fouls and slowing it down when it needed slowing down. I mean, against Charlton, he was caught out for pace a couple of times, but he's going to be.
Yes, his argument there, I've seen, is that speed was never one of his great strengths.
No, but I do remember him as a youngster playing at 15 years ago. Well, we all were, but there you are.
I didn't know he'd played alongside John. That's new to me and probably new to quite a few Pompey fans.
Yeah, he was on loan, I think, to Wickham at the time from whoever it was. But yeah, yeah, I'm pretty sure I'm right about that. I'm not...
No, and they click, don't they? Because if ever there's a moment he has the opportunity and he's on the pitch, Marlon will come over and have a word with John, and one sometimes isn't quite sure who's telling who.
Yeah. That's right.
How have players like Abu Adams and Marlon Pack influenced team confidence?
So it's working quite well. I do worry that tomorrow might be a slight bridge too far for some of the senior players, as it were. Yeah. Yeah.
There'll be a queue for the ice bath.
Yes. I've just looked it up, and indeed he made his Football League debut on loan at Wickham in 2009. Interesting. Yeah. Very interesting.
Can I ask, what do you make of the new boy? We had a glimpse of Caballero, but we saw a full hour of him. Well, you did. You saw a full hour of him on Saturday. Your thoughts?
Well, I mean, what I like about him, apart from the fact he seems to have bags of confidence and took his goal very, very well, is that he's a big lad. Yes. He's not, you know, and with greatest apologies to the likes of... the South Korean champions.
Min-Hok Yang, yes.
Yes, and others who have been very skillful players, but very, very lightweight in terms of the championship where you need to be big. He does fulfil all that, so... You know, and he's done it on a cold Tuesday night at Charlton. So it's not as though he's going to be phased by some of this stuff.
Your typical championship game sometimes seems to me to be just a knuckle duster short of a brawl. Yeah, yeah.
A bit like ice hockey.
Yes, exactly. And of course, Michael Eisen has been referring to his success owning an ice hockey team as well as winning the World Series, I think, with one of his teams. And he's alluding to the fact that he has the same ambitions for Pompey, which means that it's a medium to long term project. And he's in it for the long haul, even though he's 83.
Well, he's been in it already for 10 years, hasn't he?
Getting on, yeah.
Yeah, so all good. But I think he will need to... dip his hand into his pocket a bit more. Well, I think they will survive. I mean, I'm pretty sure that 11 points from 14 games, you know, don't want to tempt fate.
Well, if you can get a result like that, when in large parts of the corners of the pitch, you're a second 11, you know, when they come back to full strength, they're going to be a match for anybody in the championship, aren't they?
Yes. Well, it's funny that the Millwall chap, was saying on the way there that, you know, Millwall had 12 injuries, but they're all back now and they're all available and therefore, you know, they're going to kind of blast Pompey off the pitch.
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