POMPEY 2 CHARLTON 1

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What were the key moments in the Pompey vs. Charlton match?

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Pompey 2, Charlton 1. Pompey 2, Charlton 1. You know what I'm saying. You know, at 1-0, with like 30 seconds left of added time, you really are entitled to go, job done, have a look at the table, see where we are, maybe even take your eye off the ball. Oh, hang on, they've got a set piece. Ah. Ah. They didn't deserve that. They did not deserve to equalise and make it one all. And somehow I felt I wanted to say that to the fans, the Charlton fans, who were, I understand why they were celebrating, but, you know, somewhere surely in the back of your mind, you're thinking, this is quite unjustified and quite undeserved. Because apart from the first 10 minutes, Pompey were sufficiently better than Charlton for 1-0 to Pompey to be a fair score.

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And then they equalised. And we've run out, I think, of added time. But because there'd been some kind of a stoppage during added time, the ref, quite rightly, decided to let play start up again and wait for the next thing to happen, dead ball, throw in, whatever, before blowing up. Only the next thing that happened, the next dead ball thing, was that Min Hyuk Yang did what he did. And you know what? You, dear Pompey fan you, you listening, you will be hard pushed to come up with a more exciting end of a game, whether it's an FA Cup game or a league game or a league cup game or whatever, involving our team, Pompey. I think, I'm not going to say ever, because I'm sure there have been similarly extraordinary turnaround events recently.

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in games that maybe matter even more, although that Charlton game was pretty important, wasn't it? But, you know, off the top of my head, and I'm going to ask some of our old stagers who have photographic memories, such as Steve Bone, Mick Robertson, can you ever remember a finish like that? Sometimes we come out with this phrase, you know, only at Pompey. There have been various things that have happened during my tenure as a Pompey fan, which goes back now several decades. And I say to whoever I'm having a drink with, only at Pompey. We'll finish. But let's go back. We were average for the first 10 minutes. Don't know why. They were pressing hard and high, maybe running themselves out of steam. Maybe that's part of the tactic.

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Let them press.

How did the last-minute equalizer impact the game's outcome?

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Let them chase us all over the pitch and run themselves, you know, ragged, run dry on energy, you know. But they certainly had us in the first 10 minutes. And naturally, because we're human, we get a sense of foreboding that if the whole of the 95 minutes are going to be like this, then we're up against it. But we, I'm going to say, clawed our way back into it. We didn't claw our way back into it. We simply grew. We grew. We became more authoritative. We were winning our 50-50s. We were holding onto the ball. We were putting movements together, passing movements together. Some of our players were starting to show some real bite and maturity. Blair does begin to look like a proper prospect, does he not? Segacic looked a little bit, and so did Kirk, actually, look a little bit, I'm not going to say adolescent, but looking as though they've got some learning, toughening up to do, whatever, some understanding of just what a brutal, muscular world championship football is.

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But let me park it there for just a second. Think about it. If you've got a forward line that could have been Murphy, Bishop and Lang. And for whatever reason, and we won't find out probably even tonight, I'm talking to you five minutes after the final whistle, we probably won't find out tonight exactly why Lang and Bishop were unable to play. Lang didn't even threaten to be in the squad. And Bishop was on the bench, but apparently after the warm-up, spoke to the medical team and it was decided to withdraw him didn't know you could do this withdraw him and LaRue who presumably turned up with his kit knowing that he might be a substitute substitute Had to get dressed or maybe he was dressed already for the game just in case I don't know the depths to which they have to go to make sure that they're prepared and compliant with the rules and understand the rules and