POMPEY 1 SWANSEA 2

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What were the main issues in the first half against Swansea?

0:03

So, oh, Pompey won Swansea 2. What did you make of that? I mean, you know, sport is full of mystery. The final whistle's just gone. Sport is full of mysteries. There was a horse that was about 20 lengths clear of the Derby or the Grand National, I can't remember which, I know it was called Devon Loch. I think it belonged to the queen or the queen mother or something like that. You know, that's neither here nor there. But about half a furlong from the finishing post. And, you know, the jockey could have got off. It was so far ahead and carried the horse over the line. But the horse suddenly did this curious thing. unexplained unprecedented and never seen since belly flop he just belly flopped magnificent animal superb example of equine athleticism did a belly flop then and to this day and as henry v puts it until the end of time no one will know why that horse did that

1:25

The greatest cricketer of all time was Don Bradman, who came out to bat in his last test, and he just needed one run. He could score one run and be out, and that one run would mean that he would have a test batting average of 100. And nobody has come within 50% of that since. Nobody ever will. He was phenomenal. He pottered to the wicket, And was out, was it first ball? Why? No one knew then, no one knows now, no one ever will until the end of time. Andre Agassi, a tennis player you may have heard of. I think he won all four slams. You know, Australia, France, USA and Wimbledon. I think he did. But he won Wimbledon wearing a wig, a massive wig. Because at the age of 26 or 27, he was going bald and embarrassed about it.

2:32

He valued his pin-up image almost as much as his tennis ability. He was fantastic at tennis. But he wanted to be more than that. wanted to be a rock star tennis player perhaps he was the first rock star tennis player but he was going bald so throughout the wimbledon that he won he wore a massive wig and it was a massive wig it wasn't like you know a little piece it was a whole head of fantastic you know uh surfer beach boy blonde highlights wig huge and he kept it on with double-sided double-sided tape he kept this wig on for all the matches the round of 64 because he got a buy i think into the through the first 128 the round of 64 32 through the final and he won the final wearing a wig. He didn't want anybody to spot that his hairline was receding.

3:40

That, to me, and we never knew until just recently, is another sporting mystery. And I know I'm going round and round the houses, but I'm building up to this, and you know it's true, and I think you know where I'm going. One of the mysteries that all Pompey fans will take with them to the grave is what the heck... You know what I'd like to say, but I won't out of civility. What the heck was that first half against Swansea supposed to be? We had ten men out there in blue shirts... And I think it's fair to say that not one of them would have got in the average pub side on a Sunday morning. Even if they were the only ones sober and available, they would have picked Dave who'd had eight pints and slept in the car on the way to the match.

4:54

We all have our off days. You have your off days, listener. Dear bruised and bloodied listener, we all have our off days. But that was more than an off day. It was indefensible. And I haven't heard what John Messina has got to say afterwards. If he was furious about Blackburn... What's he going to say about that first half? Well, he might do that thing that some good managers do, which is to say it was my fault with team selection. We played a right back at left back. We played a left back at centre half. And we played a guy, a Senegalese guy, who has only been in this country for a few weeks, hasn't really acclimatised himself to the specifics of championship football against a pretty good championship side.

5:59

They're not special, Swansea, but they're good enough. They're proper mid-table players. you know, occasionally threaten the playoffs, that kind of thing. Not that long ago. I think they were in the Premier League, weren't they?