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Post by stuart1974 on Aug 19, 2022 22:27:56 GMT
Haven't been away to Pompey since 92/93. Boxing Day game we got battered 4-1, Vaughan Jones got sent off and Guy Whittingham & Paul Walsh ripped us apart. It looked like we had turned a corner, winning 4 straight games after Malcolm Allison had replaced Denis Rofe, including a 4-0 win over City. This put us firmly back in our place and we went on to only win 3 more games all season to finish rock bottom of what is now The Championship. Who'd have thought we'd never be back at that level since? Same here, Paul Walsh was unplayable that day.
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Post by Gastafari on Aug 19, 2022 22:55:19 GMT
Haven't been away to Pompey since 92/93. Boxing Day game we got battered 4-1, Vaughan Jones got sent off and Guy Whittingham & Paul Walsh ripped us apart. It looked like we had turned a corner, winning 4 straight games after Malcolm Allison had replaced Denis Rofe, including a 4-0 win over City. This put us firmly back in our place and we went on to only win 3 more games all season to finish rock bottom of what is now The Championship. Who'd have thought we'd never be back at that level since? Same here, Paul Walsh was unplayable that day. I think he created all 4, Guy Whittingham definitely scored all 4. Whittingham ended up scoring 48 goals that season. Just checked the 92/93 table.That Rovers side only managed 30 goals all season between them 🙂
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Post by stuart1974 on Aug 19, 2022 23:13:03 GMT
Same here, Paul Walsh was unplayable that day. I think he created all 4, Guy Whittingham definitely scored all 4. Whittingham ended up scoring 48 goals that season. Just checked the 92/93 table.That Rovers side only managed 30 goals all season between them 🙂 He did, Guy Whittingham 'only' tapped them in. It was definitely the Paul Walsh Show.
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Post by Gastafari on Aug 20, 2022 0:45:24 GMT
I think he created all 4, Guy Whittingham definitely scored all 4. Whittingham ended up scoring 48 goals that season. Just checked the 92/93 table.That Rovers side only managed 30 goals all season between them 🙂 He did, Guy Whittingham 'only' tapped them in. It was definitely the Paul Walsh Show. Another example of how Footballs changed since then. I mentioned on another thread how a player like David Lee who played over 150 games for Chelsea would very rarely end up at Rovers now at the age of 28. He'd probably be on about 80k a week. Even more so a player like Paul Walsh, played nearly 100 times for Liverpool, won a league title played in European Cup Finals etc, then a regular for Spurs winning an FA Cup there. England International. Again a player like that at the age of 30 wouldn't drop down to The Championship now either and would probably be on 100k a week if not more. No wonder he ripped us to shreds.
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Post by clovis on Aug 20, 2022 7:21:14 GMT
I was there for the 4-1 Boxing Day defeat in 92. My mother had passed away a few days before Xmas and the game was the first time I’d been out of the house. Seeing is absolutely stuffed was not quite the tonic I needed and nor was getting hopelessly lost trying to drive out of Portsmouth after the match. No good memories of that day, but that’s life.
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Post by chigas on Aug 20, 2022 7:42:15 GMT
Saw us win there in the late 70s when we beat Millwall, does that count
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Post by Tilly's Thighs on Aug 20, 2022 10:51:40 GMT
The awful state of the Ladies toilets behind the away terrace will never be forgotten. 🤮
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Post by bambergashead on Aug 20, 2022 11:17:37 GMT
My only trip to Fratton Park was 26 Mar 1983 when we lost 1-0. I think this was when we first sang there's only one little fat one (referring to a short stout chap the line of police in front of us at the end). I remember getting crushed on the railway footbridge on the way back to the special train.
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Post by francegas on Aug 20, 2022 12:37:53 GMT
Went to Portsmouth back in the 80s. It was the first away game after the pitch invasion at Elm Park Reading. Got there relatively early and the Rovers directors were on the terraces handing out flyers criticising the actions of Rovers supporters at Reading. Soon the supporters train arrived and the terraces filled up quickly. We lost 1-0 but 5 minutes before the final whistle there was a massive police presence lined up pitch side in front of us. All tall burly coppers...except one who short and fat. The Rovers fans started singing "There's only one little fat one" to his embarrassment but to the amusement of his colleagues.
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Post by Marshy on Aug 20, 2022 16:09:41 GMT
20thAugust 2022. What an absolute cheating can’t of a referee! Surely this bellend must be struck off after this performance 💩
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Post by bluebiro on Aug 20, 2022 16:43:59 GMT
Never enjoyed any of my previous visits to the dump of a city and glad I missed the referee show this time due to the trains not running.
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Post by chilly1883 on Aug 20, 2022 16:54:19 GMT
6 visits, no wins = Never going back! The ref was an inept !
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Post by bluebiro on Aug 20, 2022 17:05:48 GMT
The awful state of the Ladies toilets behind the away terrace will never be forgotten. 🤮 mens wasnt much better. A open air brick wall and a toilet with no seat no door and no paper.
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