Portsmouth away and ticket information

Remember going to pompey a few years ago, listening to music tapes in the car. Didn’t hear that the game had been cancelled till we got there. Bloody waste of time.
 
Think it was 81 ? A Friday night game down there and if my memory serves me right we were banned from travelling.. we got to Waterloo and plenty of Millwall about a good 200/300. A young DM (well known Arsenal chap) came with us , as we came out of fratton station we were led down that main road to the ground with all the side turnings that led to the ground taped off with an hand full of coppers.. then , like the pied piper one of ours ( Tony Hadley lookalike out of Peckham ) led our lot past the two coppers trying to stop our path but failing miserably. For sure, they were waiting as the Peckham pop star sparked out their Howard jones ( big old lump too) lookalike in dungarees, parking cones littered the sky as old bill vans arrived from behind the Pompey mob, in all, Millwall had them on their toes, the Arsenal bod with us got amongst their young lot with old bill not allowing him in with us, “ don’t be silly Steve you’ll get nicked” dragging him back into them clumping him in the back with sly digs so the old bill couldn’t see it, eventually we got him back with us …
 
Arsenal bod with us got amongst their young lot with old bill not allowing him in with us, “ don’t be silly Steve you’ll get nicked” dragging him back into them clumping him in the back with sly digs so the old bill couldn’t see it, eventually we got him back with us …
Almost exactly the same thing happened when we went down there in 94ish but with the well know spurs lad who was always with us (SS). It had kicked off in the street near the station, old bill got in between us and separated us, SS was in the no mans land bit, old bill got hold of him and Pompey were all shouting “he’s one of ours” SS was saying “nah I’m with them” pointing to us. old bill was a bit confused but luckily worked out he was with us and threw him in with us. Must be a tactic they’ve used a lot.

Probably because he was black they worked out he was with us. Pompey were rare in the fact that they didn’t seem to have any black or mixed race lads in their ranks. Most firms did back then.
 
Almost exactly the same thing happened when we went down there in 94ish but with the well know spurs lad who was always with us (SS). It had kicked off in the street near the station, old bill got in between us and separated us, SS was in the no mans land bit, old bill got hold of him and Pompey were all shouting “he’s one of ours” SS was saying “nah I’m with them” pointing to us. old bill was a bit confused but luckily worked out he was with us and threw him in with us. Must be a tactic they’ve used a lot.

Probably because he was black they worked out he was with us. Pompey were rare in the fact that they didn’t seem to have any black or mixed race lads in their ranks. Most firms did back then.
I’m no good with years but remember an fa cup 0-0 down there went off mainly with ob after the game us ripping down fences them full riot gear first time I can remember seeing riot shields at a game they still backed off on walk back to the station
 
Waterloo... run pompey run.
A certain fella used to round a few of us up and wait for them to arrive at Waterloo and chance our arm. Had good and bad outcomes but always got entertained. Always respected them, they travelled fairly well unlike certain other mobs and never made a noise about things.

They were very similar to us in many way. it's a rough and tough old place. The one big difference and as Wippa rightly said you'd never see a black face amongst them. That's not a dig or claiming anything but it always stood out to me.
 
I watched the game. There isn’t a goalkeeper alive who would have saved that shot. It was one of the best I’ve ever seen.
After reading his comment, I watched the Sky Highlights and agree 💯 with BP 👍, albeit I don’t know if it’s one of the best he’s ever seen 😉
 
Went on sale today for all season ticket holders (unusually early for one of our away games) no points restrictions.
Can someone put a link up? (That’s you Peckham :grinning:)
 
Initial allocation of under 1,700, I think the away end holds around 2,200 so we might get more if needed.
It is asking a lot to fill it though, this game comes at the end of 9 matches in 6 weeks, that adds up to a fair bit for the regular.