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What was the final score of the Pompey vs West Brom match?

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Pompey 3, West Brom 0. Where did that come from? You know, it was a game so one-sided, mostly, that it felt like one of those junior games that you may have played in on a Saturday morning where one team is so much better than the other. It might have been the team you're on or the team they're on. where there's just no point, really. Goals keep banging in.

Why was the game described as one-sided?

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Goals didn't bang in against West Brom, but, you know, if it was a junior game, it would have been 13-0 or maybe 13-1, because the ref would have given them a consolation goal, because that used to happen. So where did that come from? I mean, it... You weren't expecting it. We weren't expecting it. I don't think anybody was expecting it. I don't think John Massino. I don't think the Eisners. I don't think the players. I don't think anybody was expecting. And I'm going to say it like this. Pompey to play so well. So well. I've heard bits and pieces of the commentary from the wonderful Moon and Whittingham. And they're saying, you know, oh, they're awful. They're awful. And that's one thing. But we were good. Our touch was good.

1:13

Our passing was good. Our coordination was good. We were stringing meaningful passes together, not just batting it along the back line. We were putting the ball into space that Pompey players could run onto and do something useful with. We were doing... My man of the match, forgive me, is Ogilvy. because his passing out of defence, I mean, he's been converted to a centre-half now, and his passing out of defence, mainly to Swanson, almost entirely to Swanson, is perfection. I thought he was just so good, so solid, he almost nicked one at the death, which would have made it 4-0. But I do not dispute the decision that Ali got the man of the match. It could have gone to Chaplin as well, of course. And I'll come back to it, but isn't it amazing?

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No, it's not amazing. If you score a goal, how much it lifts your game.

What unexpected performance did Pompey display during the match?

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It's totally understandable. He scored a goal. He scored a good goal. He placed that ball at 60 miles an hour into the net. He placed it in there. He didn't just blast it. He placed it at speed. So he deserved to be noticed. And lots of people did as well. I thought Dozell had a fantastic game. As he did. Everyone had a fantastic game, actually. And there was a moment in the game when Nicholas Schmidt had to make a fingertip save. And this amused me because he had to make a fingertip save from a long range shot. And he did. And it was spectacular. And he dived and he got it over the bar. And then he walked out towards his defenders and said something along the lines of, you shouldn't allow them to shoot from that distance or something, you know, like goalkeepers do.

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But here's my analysis of that. He didn't mean it. He didn't mean it. He was very happy that he had that shot come at him. He always had it covered. He knew he could make a spectacular issue out of it. It made him look even better than he is, and he's good. He's good. And then to make that fantastic fingertip save and then go down and roll and get up and walk towards your defenders and say, that shouldn't have happened. It's great psychology. I don't think we put a foot wrong, did we? No, there was the odd moment when, you know, they got a 50-50 or something. They got some scraps. Yeah. They got some scraps. You feel for the supporters, don't you? Because they're honest, true men, women and children like us.

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They've come all the way down from the black country to watch that game, to support their team, to hope. And they've got problems, big problems. And we care for them as people, but we don't care for them as a club because we want them to be below us. Come the end of spring. Simple as that. Simple as that. And we want Leicester to be below us come the end of spring, which with the various points deductions that it's being discussed that they may incur will happen, you know, without even if they win every game for the rest of the season. you're going to have sheffield wednesday and leicester below you so you've only got to be ahead of one side and uh hopefully oxford united are volunteering to be that entity but but what an afternoon what an afternoon the weather was cool but not cool the weather was equitable and the sunshine was there and the pitch was glorious and the crowd was huge uh