26-02-2022, 02:50 PM
Looks an absolute picture. No excuse for not controlling the ball. In days gone by it was a quagmire at this stage of the season.
The pitch
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26-02-2022, 02:50 PM
Looks an absolute picture. No excuse for not controlling the ball. In days gone by it was a quagmire at this stage of the season.
26-02-2022, 03:01 PM
We will pass beautifully in a little circle during the warm up.
26-02-2022, 06:10 PM
(26-02-2022, 02:50 PM)dsmg Wrote: Looks an absolute picture. No excuse for not controlling the ball. In days gone by it was a quagmire at this stage of the season. Actually, it wasn't. Pompey have always had a decent surface, since Duggie Reid and his staff dug some effective drainage ditches back in the 50s. The Big Match Revisited confirms this.
26-02-2022, 06:20 PM
Yep agree we've normally had a decent pitch as I recall. Sometimes it has got heavy under the South Stand no surprise. I have seen a couple on TV lately that are awful. Morecambe one of them who we have to visit
26-02-2022, 06:28 PM
Take a look at the Biley Christmas show, 84. Quagmire
26-02-2022, 06:34 PM
I was away at Sea sadly that day lol
26-02-2022, 06:46 PM
Last game of the season, 1975, against Norwich, a billiard table.
26-02-2022, 06:58 PM
26-02-2022, 07:21 PM
when I used to sell programmes, Pete in the shop told me about Deacon's discussion with the groundsman in May. Groundsman: "I need six bags of grass seed"
Deacon: "You can have one" Might account for the lack of green stuff along the South side in those days.
26-02-2022, 08:27 PM
(26-02-2022, 06:58 PM)dsmg Wrote: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNGZQuPFTTs&t=337s It's certainly cutting up a bit. I was at the game, but I don't recall the weather conditions. There is no sand down and it looks very green. Billiard table is a figure of speech and not to be taken literally. As I said, in 1975, it was in startlingly good condition, compared to every other team featured, including Ipswich, who had been on the week before.
26-02-2022, 09:48 PM
(26-02-2022, 08:27 PM)TBP Wrote:(26-02-2022, 06:58 PM)dsmg Wrote: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNGZQuPFTTs&t=337s and comparing to now is unfair as the pitches then were proper grass on genuine earth as compared to a strange mix now of earth, sand grass and plastic |
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