25-04-2022, 09:29 PM
Yeah ! I’m a glory hunter ! That’s why I started at Fratton Park in August 1946….at seven years old I could see that Glory Days were on the horizon (or maybe my family could !).
I later came to learn that Pompey is twinned with disappointment and that those brief periods of exciting, winning football had to be enjoyed whilst they lasted……and there weren’t so many in the over 4,000 games I have attended home and away.
No, not for me the North Lower, it was 30 years of buying 3 season tickets in North Stand Centre Section on the halfway line even though I lived abroad for 14 years of them - although I did spend a small fortune in airfares from Spain, Cyprus, Singapore and the US.
I finally gave up my season tickets after Jacketts second season of utter dross as it seemed to me there was no silver lining even on the far and distant horizon.
I used to be starry-eyed about The Blues but with old age comes an unwillingness to accept manifest incompetence and I’ve just seen 5 years of that at Fratton Park.
Most of you seem happy to accept what you are served up, fine, good luck; I just expect more than you.
So sorry if my often caustic and acerbic commentary on Pompey offends, here’s a suggestion, get over yourselves !
I later came to learn that Pompey is twinned with disappointment and that those brief periods of exciting, winning football had to be enjoyed whilst they lasted……and there weren’t so many in the over 4,000 games I have attended home and away.
No, not for me the North Lower, it was 30 years of buying 3 season tickets in North Stand Centre Section on the halfway line even though I lived abroad for 14 years of them - although I did spend a small fortune in airfares from Spain, Cyprus, Singapore and the US.
I finally gave up my season tickets after Jacketts second season of utter dross as it seemed to me there was no silver lining even on the far and distant horizon.
I used to be starry-eyed about The Blues but with old age comes an unwillingness to accept manifest incompetence and I’ve just seen 5 years of that at Fratton Park.
Most of you seem happy to accept what you are served up, fine, good luck; I just expect more than you.
So sorry if my often caustic and acerbic commentary on Pompey offends, here’s a suggestion, get over yourselves !