22-04-2023, 06:09 PM
(This post was last modified: 22-04-2023, 06:18 PM by West Australian Portsmouth Fan.)
My dad is a Tottenham fan by the way. I started following Pompey on my own volition simply because it’s the nearest team to where I’m from (Ventnor on the Isle of Wight), my cousins and aunty live in Portsmouth and it’s the only result I actually give a shit about. I spent my formative years listening for our results on the radio with James Akexander Gordon. This club in 2008 gave me the chance to be with my grandparents when we made the cup final and I went. I do not regret for a second not following my dads team. In fact I think it was fate that brought me to Pompey, through loyalty to where I’m from and I wouldn’t change that because of the joy in football and in seeing my family back in England that through fate or divine intervention or whatever it is that this club has given me