20-02-2021, 12:41 PM
(20-02-2021, 12:26 PM)Wightblue Wrote: 35,000 ! Only 12,000 short of Pompey v Blackpool in 49/50..... and we lost !
Today I expect a big response from the Pompey players after the Rovers shambles so 3-1
Blackpool were the visitors when my Dad took me to Fratton for my first Pompey game. 27 December 1954, gate 42,896. Stanley Matthews didn't play and there was huge disappointment in the crowd as most had come to see him, massive attraction as he was in those days. I remember the great buzz around the ground when the teams were read out and his name was omitted. I saw the game sitting on the gravel running track around the pitch where all youngsters were placed and having to find my Dad afterwards. The smell of Bovril pervaded the air We won 3-0. I was 13. Dad didn't want to go again. He didn't like the idea of being separated from me all game and then finding it hard to meet up afterwards. So I had to wait another five years or so to take myself.