portsmouth Stories - Bitter and Blue
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Fratton Park 5.15pm Saturday - live on one of Sky's rip-off packages. The first meeting of the two clubs since the infamous 'Pedro Mendes' incident which lifted the art of dirty cheating foreigners too a new high. Not only did poor Ben Thatcher get booked for the incident , Mendes even took up a...
Portsmouth 2 City 1
How Pedro Mendes must look forward to the next time he faces Manchester City.Not one to endure half-measures against us, he encapsulated his career so far against City in yesterday's game, reprising his collection of long range strikes to put Pompey ahead before again being stretchered off,...
Portsmouth V Manchester City - Review
3rd versus 6th in the premiership in a game that up until a couple of years ago could have quite easily been 3rd and 6 th bottom of the championship.Both teams have wealthy backers of course these days and with that comes a demand for success which both are achieving at the moment. A win for city...
Portsmouth 0 City 0
I was away in Rome for a few days until Sunday and only managed to catch the second half of this game but from what I saw (and subsequent) reports it looked to be a decent game between two useful sides who were creative and had something about them going forward, but primarily were concerned that...
Deadline day news
Manchester City goalkeeper Andreas Isaksson has turned down a move to Galatasaray, having previously expressed a wish to join the Turkish club. Isaksson had been hoping to leave City before the close of the transfer window to safeguard his position in Sweden's Euro 2008 squad. He has lost out to...
Benjani deal to be resurrected?
Having waited up until after midnight on Thursday to try and ensure I got confirmation of all of our transfer news before finishing posting up, I decide to call it a day shortly after, safely assuming that the Benjani deal was not yet announced but would be confirmed shortly and I'd pick the...
Club issue Benjani denial
Manchester City have tonight corrected press speculation that Benjani Mwaruwari has completed his transfer to the club from Portsmouth.Some news organisations have this evening claimed in unattributed stories that the Portsmouth striker has joined the Blues. However a club spokesman said: "No deal...
Benjani deal concluded
Manchester City are delighted to announce the signing of Benjani Mwaruwari from Portsmouth for £3.87million.The Zimbabwe striker joins the Blues on a two and a half year deal after passing a medical yesterday and agreeing personal terms.Further payments could be made if the player makes up to 75...
Portsmouth prediction
Back to league action following the midweek victory in Cyprus, and with qualification to the UEFA group stages likely, the games are going to start coming thick and fast, testing the squad and Mark Hughes's management skills in the process.Portsmouth were also involved in UEFA action, but have an...
City 6 Portsmouth 0
Mark Hughes talked of this victory as having set a standard, and if this performance is the measure on which we will now be judged then the bar has been raised to unprecedented levels.It was such an impressive performance, not just for the result but the manner in which we tore apart a side who on...
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