That completely un-choreographed, wild eyed, complete disbelief of a celebration from Ollie Watkins is one of my fave England celebrations ever.
Just looked completely overwhelmed.
What a goal as well.
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In 2001, Portsmouth signed Robert Prosenecki 10 years after he finished 5th in the 1991 Ballon D’Or vote.
If we had continued this tradition from then until today, here’s a list of the other players we would have signed 10 years after they finished 5th.
Love Harry Kane
No real ego, a great leader and always fronts up to the media despite 10+ years of boring, tired jokes about his minor speech impediment which would be enough to silence lesser men
Proper captain, proper player
Hope he gets his trophy
Absolutely bizarre. In 15 years of buying and selling Pompey shirts I have never seen that one on the market in my life.
Where on earth has Kanye West got that from and why is he wearing it? 😂
What a graft that was from 18 year old Dane Scarlett who gets a standing ovation and his own song as he walks off.
No goals yet but they’ll come.
We’ll let him milk that one 😂
Cheers
#THFC
And if you’re wondering what plopping a chain smoking, former Ballon D’Or contender into a poor side in the 2nd tier of English football looked like…..
Absolutely bonkers to win a title in the 90th minute like this.
Players everywhere. Pyro flying. Fans all over the shop.
No other sport comes close.
Biblical.
THE most underrated player of the the most successful period in Pompey’s modern history. An absolute unit of a player, and more skilful that he was ever given credit for.
Rest in Peace Papa Bouba Diop and thanks for the memories 🇸🇳
Mate as if we’ve done it like that.
What a football club.
What a team.
83rd minute penalty to equalise and get us promoted.
90th minute winner to get us the title.
Absolutely f*cking spectacular.
1 minute you’re cupping your ears to the Pompey fans after *equalising* at home, to leave you *only* 10 points behind, the next you’re crying on the Wembley turf after losing to Oxford United to guarantee another year in L1.
Life comes at you fast when you’re
@aaroncollinsx
To drop this finish as a League 1 footballer at Wembley in front of 45,000 Pompey fans and 45,000 Red Stripe Geordies is absolutely unreal.
Composure off the charts.
Never been more proud of my club than I am tonight.
Didn’t think it would be us but delighted that the
#Pompey
squad have come together as a group and decided to make a stand by refusing to play professional football this evening
👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼🔵🔵🔵🔵
3 years of failure for Kenny Jackett
3 years of turgid football for Kenny Jackett
3 years of appalling transfer business by Kenny Jackett
2 consecutive seasons of failing to win a single playoff game
2 consecutive seasons of incompetent selection in playoffs
JACKETT OUT
Pompey and Derby County players in Vegas with their feet up and beers on tap whilst the best team in the league still have 2 weeks of the season and 3 games of football to play is absolutely delicious 😂😂😂
@TGonthebike
Your cowardly implication here, let’s be clear, is that if you’d done this to a brown or black person that “football fans” wouldn’t be as outraged.
It’s nothing to do with the individual who you’ve victimised, and everything to do with you being a vile weirdo.
Probably the last we’ll see of this man at Fratton in a Pompey shirt today.
What an impact he’s had and what a brilliant example of the loan system working brilliantly for all parties.
It’s been genuinely fantastic watching him turn from a kid into the most feared winger in L1
A reminder that Express FM sacked 2 passionate Pompey fans from their match day lineup to replace them with a Southampton fan who uses the Pompey wifi to watch 6 nations rugby during a game 👍🏼
Really like this bloke.
Hasn’t had the personality media trained out of him yet.
Genuinely gives the impression that he’s living the dream and tonight was his best performance so far. 🔵
Leyton Orient goalscorer dropped the Benjani celebration in front of the Fratton End after the third goal which you have to say, is absolutely sensational shithousing.
Absolute nightmare for the away fans tonight having to travel 7 hours to get home, soaked through to the bone, having just lost 4-0 and at the end of all of that the realisation that you’re arriving in Sunderland.
Gotta feel for Lincoln City.
We turned up with nothing to play for, they needed a win for playoffs and we beat them anyway out of pure spite and Paddy rubbed it in.
Classless PFC the team for me 😍😍
Up the shithousing blues
Rivalry aside it’s worth highlighting that JWP is well deserving of legend status.
- Immediately abandoned club upon relegation 🔥
- 20 years, 0 trophies 😮💨
- Only player present for both 9-0’s and therefore the only player in PL history to have lost 9-0 twice 🥶
Mid table League 1 side who have been terrible for years taking 9000 away in the Cup in a cost of living crisis during a train strike.
Nobody does it better.
I hate how much I love this stupid football club.
Up the Blues. 🔵
What a result.
Genuinely ravaged by injury, against an inform Peterborough side who had a loud home support today.
9 point cushion to 3rd with 7 to play.
Yengi lethal.
Whyte renaissance.
The train keeps rolling
Up the Blues 🔵
1 of the main reasons I want out of this league is so we don’t have the away end looking like this
Had enough of nonsense clubs like Wycombe bringing 7 people
Give me 2000 seething Birmingham fans with ridiculous accents. Give me 3000 livestock bothering Swansea jacks
Portsmouth’s 7 seasons are famous for an FA Cup win, iconic players and outrageous Matty Taylor goals
Southampton’s 25 seasons are famous for (multiple 😂) 9-0 losses, being very boring and (both 😂) their most iconic players being absolute freaks
We are not the same
Superb result away at Leeds irrelevant of the late equaliser.
If that’s the best the Championship has to offer we’ll be fine.
Great performance from Pompey and more excellent game management from Mousinho. 🔵
(That Aaronson miss at the end one of the worst I’ve ever seen 😂)
Cowley and his brother played their part in where we are today.
They put the emphasis back on the relationship between the city, fans and club.
It didn’t work out for them but it showed the importance of being decent men, something some of their predecessors didn’t prioritise
What a brilliant achievement for a truly special football club. John Mousinho, the incredible staff & players have performed just brilliantly throughout the season.
It brings me so much joy to see the happiness that this success has brought to the people of
@Pompey
. Enjoy! PUP
Yengi with an absolutely unbelievable Centre forward performance against one of the best CBs this division has to offer.
You won’t see a more deserving goal!
Another game, another Aussie running the show.
The kangaroo revolution continues. 🦘 🇦🇺
3 points total against Leeds, Luton and Middlesbrough is a fantastic return given we’ve done it all, or in part, without our best striker in Bishop, our best midfielder and captain in Pack and our best 3 defenders in Shaughnessy, McIntyre and Poole.
That’s on Mousinho imo 👑
The squad in Vegas.
Nice to see Tino and Stevenson there, it shows you what a great job Mous and Pack did creating a squad wide bond when loanees and fringe players are in amongst in on a Vegas trip.
One last rodeo for Raffs!
1998/2008
Rivaldo.
Arrives after a Harry Redknapp spells Reo-Coker wrong on the paperwork.
Slots beautifully into the all time great 2008 Pompey squad.
You’d have to imagine a Lassana Diarra/Rivaldo pivot would’ve been filthy.
Do what you need to do to remember tonight because we’ll be talking about that one for the next 20 years
Save the videos, save the pictures,write down what you felt. Do whatever you need to do because that was an “I was there” moment
That is football. And that is why we do it
For those nervous about tonight
- Pompey have played the current Top 6 sides 11 times so far this season. We have lost 0
- Pompey are promoted if Derby or Bolton drop a single point in their remaining 5 games
- Abu Kamara exists
- We’ve got a 20 goal a season striker up top
This is the sort of thing that happens to other clubs not us
One of the best moments of my life.
Just jumping around with my old man going absolutely bonkers
Will never forget seeing that ball hit the net
An all time great Pompey moment
Can’t wait for this guy v Scummers next season.
2 yard tap in at the Fratton End, shirt off, length of pitch, knee slide in front of Scum fans, launches ball boy stool into their raging mass, downs 3 jaeger bombs and knocks out Danny Ings.
Returns to centre for restart.
Abu Kamara sensational. The way he’s come on this season is magnificent and credit to himself and the coaches. Norwich City have a real player on their hands.
It’s very rare for me to get personal on here but a what a spineless worm that Kenny Jackett is.
Sitting in a Sky Sports studio saying “Pompey look poor going forward” etc etc.
This is YOUR team Kenny, and YOUR poisonous culture.
Pathetic 🔵
Exeter fans not only displayed some exemplary class and respect with their involvement in the memorial events today, they were also pretty loud.
Good on em. Proper South West Club.
Imagine going online, buying a red smoke grenade, transporting it all the way from your Northern slum to Pompey and your team being so utterly shite that you don’t have an opportunity to use it so you just throw it after you lost 2-0 getting yourself a banning order and fine 😂😂
Think as Pompey fans commenting on James Ward-Prowse’s omission we’ve got to take our blue tinted specs off and put our neutral hats on to say he absolutely deserved to miss out on the squad because he’s a bang average player who captains a side that loses 9-0 once a year 🔵
(Mostly) successful Sweepstake draw and my girlfriend said yes when I asked her if she fancied marrying me so overall not an awful weekend.
We take that and we put it into the top drawer.
The bloke is an absolute joke. The ultimate League 1 target man.
Goal machine, strong as a large cow and a first touch so good it’s like his feet are made of pillows.
Premier League football
skills, Conference League haircut.
Colby Bishop’s magic.
Not even heartbroken.
Is there a single person on this app who expected anything other from these playoffs than poor squad selection, soul destroyingly boring football and baffling soundbites?
The time is now. Get him out of my club.
🔵
Ronan Curtis shhhing the fans of a side 7th in the Conference Premier after scoring a goal to put his L1 side undeservedly 1 up in an FA Cup 1st round tie in the 41st minute is the most Ronan Curtis thing I’ve ever seen and I absolutely fucking love it 😍🔵
Can’t remember ever feeling more sorry for a Pompey player than I do for John Marquis at the moment. The bloke absolutely kills himself for 90+ minutes for tactics which not only fail to play to his strengths, but actually work actively against them. 🔵
Imagine being a Bristol Rovers fan going to the game today knowing that you have no option but to abuse Marlon Pack for his Bristol City connections but doing so safe in the knowledge he’s the best player on the pitch who is about to brutally deconstruct your entire life/gameplan
We play like that in the League we batter every single team we play. 2 clinical finishes from a Premier League side. Can’t knock players or crowd. Proud but gutted. Saints fans absolutely non existent, as you’d expect. Up the Blues. 🔵
Unsung hero this season.
Some massive saves today to keep it 0-0 in the first half when the outfield boys weren’t at the races.
Super Will Norris in goal.
I’ve been fairly quiet with my Ben Close propaganda recently but I want you all to know that I’m back.
Football is a game of opinions but if you don’t rate Ben Close then your* opinion is wrong.
@Pompey
Feel so sad about this one even though it’s the right decision. Seemed like such a good fit but it hasn’t worked. Wish them both nothing but the best.
Credit to Christian Burgess who has taken his game to a whole new level this season. Has always been an excellent technical defender at this level but had the misfortune of playing alongside Matt Clarke who made him look ordinary
Stops goals. Scores goals. Shags trees. Legend🔵
Routine win in the end after an uncharacteristically sloppy performance.
Raggett immense. Unlucky to miss MOTM.
Bishop reminding some why he’s clearly first choice striker.
Saydee gamechanger. Looked immediately better with his intro.
Who needs Mourinho we’ve got Mousinho
Dunno if it’s because I’m older and more pathetic now but I thought watching Dane Scarlett high five 3 sides of the ground as he was subbed off, take 10 minutes to get back to the dugout, all while slowly realising the crowd were cheering his name was a pretty touching moment.
Not a huge fan of Sky and what they’ve done to the game but their programming schedule of Scum getting battered 9-0 at home followed by us pumping them 4-1 at Fratton is 180 minutes of brilliant shithousing.
😂😂
Whatever your feelings on Jackett, Tuesday is a free pass.
It’s about getting behind the lads, and sticking to it whether we’re 1, 2, 3 or more goals down. We’re unlikely to win on the pitch but we can show the watching world what this club was once famous for..atmosphere 🔵