| Obafemi 20:33 - Mar 12 with 846 views | PatfromPoole |
Just set up Plymouth’s goal at Fortress Fratton.
He does like playing against the Pomps…. [Post edited 12 Mar 20:33]
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| Obafemi on 21:12 - Mar 12 with 758 views | kingslandstand1 |
2 down at home to the bottom club, how embarrassing |  | | |
| Obafemi on 21:33 - Mar 12 with 731 views | grumpy |
He played a part in our 4-0 down there.
How do you beat the top team(Leeds) and days later lose to the bottom team? |  | | |
| Obafemi on 21:39 - Mar 12 with 717 views | kingslandstand1 |
| Obafemi on 21:33 - Mar 12 by grumpy |
He played a part in our 4-0 down there.
How do you beat the top team(Leeds) and days later lose to the bottom team? |
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| Obafemi on 03:11 - Mar 13 with 594 views | BuenosSaint |
| Obafemi on 21:39 - Mar 12 by kingslandstand1 |
They like to provide us with entertainment |
Didn't they just lose to the bottom side. Luton ?
Now they lose to bottom side again.
Hopefully Derby will be bottom by the time they play them in April. |  |
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| Obafemi on 07:25 - Mar 13 with 478 views | saintwizzler |
Something for us Saints fans to celebrate at long last. |  |
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| Obafemi on 08:13 - Mar 13 with 429 views | PatfromPoole |
Perhaps we should sign him back, just to play 2 League games next season……
There are worse options to have to bring on from the bench in the second-half of a game. | |
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| Obafemi on 08:27 - Mar 13 with 412 views | saintwizzler |
| Obafemi on 08:13 - Mar 13 by PatfromPoole |
Perhaps we should sign him back, just to play 2 League games next season……
There are worse options to have to bring on from the bench in the second-half of a game. |
If he’s on a free or we can secure his services on loan then it’s a yes from Sport Republic!! | |
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| Obafemi on 09:15 - Mar 13 with 366 views | dirk_doone |
It's funny how when Pompey string a few home wins together, everyone starts going on about the effect of the home atmosphere. Yet they ignore the fact that last year they went 7 months without winning a single home game. A few years back they published a league table of the all-time percentage of home wins and Pompey were near the bottom of it, well below Saints. [Post edited 13 Mar 9:16]
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| Obafemi on 11:18 - Mar 13 with 244 views | SaintNick |
| Obafemi on 09:15 - Mar 13 by dirk_doone |
It's funny how when Pompey string a few home wins together, everyone starts going on about the effect of the home atmosphere. Yet they ignore the fact that last year they went 7 months without winning a single home game. A few years back they published a league table of the all-time percentage of home wins and Pompey were near the bottom of it, well below Saints. [Post edited 13 Mar 9:16]
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Dont forget that from the late 1950's until the mid 1990's Portsmouth was a ground that was big in size having swathes of terracing and holding 49,000, but had an average attendance in that time as low as 5,000 with their best aside from a couple of years in the mid 60's around 19k being 15k .
That meant that most games were played in front of a ground that was mostly around 1/3 to 1/2 full, so the atmosphere would have been appalling, windswept empty terraces.
When Westwood popped up in about 1994, you went into the bell ringing, sing monotonously and incessantly and tell everyone you are the greatest fans in the World era |  |
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| Obafemi on 15:27 - Mar 13 with 114 views | SouthSeaSaint |
When Pompey won the League just after WW2 their average home attendance was around 37,000 in a ground that could hold 50,000.
That was less that Hull City who were champions of Division Three North
At that time there were a lot of Navy personnel in Pompey and Gosport and quite a few people from outside Pompey, including some from Southampton and elsewhere in Hampshire, who used to go to Fratton Park to watch the occasional game.
Obviously these were not members of the laughingly named Southampton Combined Union of Men, who were rampant strike breakers, according to Pompey folklore.. | | | |
| Obafemi on 15:34 - Mar 13 with 104 views | PatfromPoole |
| Obafemi on 11:18 - Mar 13 by SaintNick |
Dont forget that from the late 1950's until the mid 1990's Portsmouth was a ground that was big in size having swathes of terracing and holding 49,000, but had an average attendance in that time as low as 5,000 with their best aside from a couple of years in the mid 60's around 19k being 15k .
That meant that most games were played in front of a ground that was mostly around 1/3 to 1/2 full, so the atmosphere would have been appalling, windswept empty terraces.
When Westwood popped up in about 1994, you went into the bell ringing, sing monotonously and incessantly and tell everyone you are the greatest fans in the World era |
As a Southampton resident (sort of) around 1994, I regularly went to games at Fratton to stand in the away end if Saints weren't playing.
Westwood used to stand on the North Terrace near the halfway line; in those days the Fratton End was uncovered and most of their "noise", such little as it was, came from over that direction.
The terrace which went along the length of the pitch was often no more than two-thirds full. | |
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