21-12-2021, 05:08 PM
Wasn’t Ray Pointer’s transfer paid from some of the proceeds of the sale of Brian Lewis to Jimmy Hill’s Coventry ?
I thought Pointers best game for Pompey was in an FA Cup tie at Fratton Park against Arsenal when he gave the then very highly rated Pat Rice a real chasing all afternoon.
Pointer was well past his Burnley best when he came to Pompey, I felt he was playing from memory, it was just another example of Pompey selling younger talent to buy others fading stars, so often a feature of Pompey’s transfer activity.
Pointers 31goals from 152 games for Pompey was hardly the stuff of legend and not to be compared with his Burnley days of 118 goals from 223 appearances
I thought Pointers best game for Pompey was in an FA Cup tie at Fratton Park against Arsenal when he gave the then very highly rated Pat Rice a real chasing all afternoon.
Pointer was well past his Burnley best when he came to Pompey, I felt he was playing from memory, it was just another example of Pompey selling younger talent to buy others fading stars, so often a feature of Pompey’s transfer activity.
Pointers 31goals from 152 games for Pompey was hardly the stuff of legend and not to be compared with his Burnley days of 118 goals from 223 appearances