Chapter 1: What was the final score of the Pompey vs West Brom match?
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.
Chapter 2: Why was the game described as one-sided?
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. 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? No, it's not amazing. If you score a goal, how much it lifts your game.
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Chapter 3: What unexpected performance did Pompey display during the match?
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. 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. 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
We could be forgiven for it being a little bit scant, a few empty seats, because we got a lot of games coming up, but it wasn't. And we were in full voice. And why wouldn't we be? Because with only a few minutes gone, Ali pulled it back and Chaplin just put it into the back of the net. Like it was a training match. Like it was a practice match. It's what he does.
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Chapter 4: Who was recognized as the man of the match and why?
And away he went with his shirt and everything towards the frat and end. And you realised that he was back. He's back. He's back. The player who can do that is back. And for the rest of the game, he was doing things like a man who had scored a great goal that had given us a 1-0 lead against an important opposition. We had to beat them.
Well, it wouldn't be, you know, death in the afternoon if we hadn't beaten them, but we needed to beat them. It is so much better that we have beaten them.
Chapter 5: What role did teamwork play in Pompey's success?
And Chaplin had given us the beginnings of the chance. with a well-taken goal. I will just say though, part of the reason that Ali got man of the match was because of the pullback. And it's been talked about amongst Pompey fans for some time that when you get to the byline as a winger, you don't necessarily strike it across the face of the goal. That's a good way of doing it.
You don't necessarily aim for the back post. That's a good way of doing it. you have a third option, which is to pull it back towards the penalty spot if you have a player who knows that that might happen and lurks beyond the penalty spot, not a lot, two or three yards, and can strike the ball first time. And that is what happened. So I'm not saying it was a training ground goal.
What I'm saying is that Ali looked at his options and he saw... I think he looked up. If you look again, I think he looked up and he saw that Chaplin was on... And he gave it to him in exactly the right spot. Almost sympathetic to the right foot. So, you know, credit to that for absolute professionalism. The second goal, it was Ali who finished it. But what a ball from Dezel! Do people remember?
Were they sitting around, people in the stands, moaning about the fact that we had got somebody from QPR who couldn't even get in the QPR squad? When Dozel arrived. And look at him now. He's consummate. He's winning everything. On the ground. In the air. He's always in the right place. He's a terrific defender. But coming forward. He can split a defence. Like Platini.
I mean that pass into Ali was amazing. Almost. That was Premier League class. I'm not saying he's a Premier League player yet. But what a pass it was. And didn't Ali take it well? Didn't he take it well? He knew he was going to pull it back onto his favoured right foot. But did he put it through the keeper's legs on person? Intentionally? I think so.
I'm going to think so because I want to think so. And now we're 2-0.
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Chapter 6: How did the players' performances impact the overall game?
And then, right after half-time, he got a third. And it was the new hero. And weren't we pleased for him and for us that Adams went and did it again, scored another goal in front of all the faithful. Wow, how must he feel tonight going home? going home, getting on his phone and phoning mum and dad and everybody and going, hey, it's going all right down here. I'm enjoying myself.
I'm looking at a detached house in Southsea. I mean, and he's good too, isn't he? He doesn't just get on the end of the occasional opportunity. And what a good through pass from Chaplin. What an absolutely superb defence splitting flick from Chaplin to set Adams up for that goal. And he took it and he went away celebrating.
And I think because he's such an imposing character, the referee would have given him the goal even if it had gone over the bar. What an afternoon we've had. I hope it's been half as good for you as it has been for me. I've just been so enriched and enlightened by that. And that's what football does for us. What else to talk about? A bishop wanted a goal. Colby wanted a goal.
And I think he felt that against that defence, he had a better chance of scoring a goal than against most defences.
So when he was down, having had the back of his heel raked, let's hope it's not the Achilles, because that can be a very serious injury, and he went back out on the pitch, partly because he was saying it's not that bad, but also because I think he was saying, I can get a goal here, because they're very flaky, they're weak, they're not good. Their manager is not impressive.
I wouldn't want to denigrate another human being, but I think their manager needs to expand in the way in which he does the job. I'm going to put it like that. That's being delicate, diplomatic, political. His background isn't that great. He didn't play professional football. He played something called futsal for Wales and got a job with the under-17s at Manchester United.
drifted into american football and came back from two seasons in american football to manage west brom you know i i hope that it works out for him as a human being but i don't think it's going to last and i don't think the west brom players care for it they don't care for the setup And that worked to our advantage today in that game because they really weren't up for it.
I listened to bits and pieces of Moon and Whittingham and they were saying, they're just not at the races. They are not here. They're going through them, you know, like a hot knife through butter. They're not committed. They're not involved. They're not bothered. There was a couple of things that, Quickly beyond that, one of the assistant referees was making something of being hit by an object.
I've looked at it back on the highlights and I don't know what it was. There is a concern that it was a Pompey fan. If it was a Pompey fan, it would have come from the stand that contained the Pompey fans that he was running the touchline of. he was down at the milton end and if anyone was disgruntled it would have been west brom fans
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