You feel sorry for Quashie? Bollocks. He wanted a payrise, he got it...with a cost. Now prepare yourself for a long post...
Got back in from West Bromwich at about 10 last night, starving and absolutly fucking knackered but feeling very very happy.
I witnessed a match and an atmosphere unlike anything I have ever seen before. Talking to some old guy infront of me after the match he said he hadn't seen anything like it in his lifetime and that I wouldn't see anything like it again.
For those of you that aren't sure what im talking about, the scenario is like this:
If the results went the right way, West Brom would stay up and our most hated rivals with their horrible lying Judas management team; Southampton would go down.
There was a 2,900 Pompey following there and it was very strange, completly mental.
Both sets of fans had dozens of inflatables and balloons and were chucking them about but the was also Pompey fans wearing West Brom scarfs and shirts with "Pompey" printed on the back.
As the ground filled up it got even crazier, the huge Pompey following started singing West Brom songs and cheering their players as they came out to warm up.
When the teams emerged and the team sheets were read out, the Pompey fans cheered every one of their players (big cheer for BRUUUUUUNO since he's a former Pompey player). Both sets of fans joined in with a loud rendition of the Great Escape as the match started.
The Pompey fans were willing the West Brom players on and singing "You only need one goal" and "Let them score". Ricardo Fuller committed a foul and the Pompey fans chanted "off off off".
The news filtered through of goals for Fulham against Norwich, Scum against Man U and Palace and Charlton, leading to huge cheers from both sets of fans when they went for West Brom (and against scum) and great disapointment when they went against them.
West Brom were pretty poor first half, which annoyed everyone in the stadium, it was nice that Pompey were knocking it about and playing some decent stuff...but today we didn't want to be seeing that. West Brom never really looked like scoring.
Second half West Brom looked much brighter and eventually Geoff Horsefield scored and both sets of fans went mental. I can honestly not explain how weird it is to cheer a goal AGAINST your team. Cue more Albion songs from the Pompey fans.
The news filtered through that Man U had gone ahead against scum, however Palace were beating Charlton so it wasn't looking good for West Brom....then suddenly a huge cheer went up as Charlton equalized.
Another huge cheer from the Pompey fans when the final whistle went at St Mary's which was clapped by the West Brom fans. Then the final whistle went at the Hawthorns and both sets of fans went mental.
Arjan de Zeeuw, Dejan Stefanovic, Matthew Taylor, Joey Kamara and Gary O'Neil came over to applaud the away fans and chuck their shirts to us. Im sure they felt a bit weird that we hadn't been supporting them and cheering them as usual but we gave them a huge ovation and im sure they'll understand how much it meant to us that scum went down.
Then the West Brom fans invaded the pitch, a load of them nicked Joey Kamara's shorts too. Thousands of them gathered around infront of the Pompey end and both sets of fans joined in with eachother, taking it in turns to sing Pompey and West Brom songs, anti scum and anti Wolves songs (ADAM, I LIKE WOLVES MORE THAN WEST BROM, I CAN'T CONTROL THE MASSES
). Pompey and West Brom fans were swapping shirts and scarfs and hugging and shaking hands with eachother, even though they'd never met before.
I shook hands with random West Brom fans wondering around in the Pompey end and we joined eachother singing "We're by far the greatest city" about our respective teams, each trying to be a bit louder on the "Portsmouth City"/"West Bromwich Albion" bit
Amarillo was played and both sets of fans went mental, singing along and the West Brom fans joined in with the "we're gonna send the scummers down" part.
After what must've been atleast 20 minutes of this joint celebration the West Brom players came out for their lap of honour, almost all the Pompey fans were still there cheering them on (especially BRUUUUUUNO).
After we left, on the coach ride out, whenever we passed West Brom fans in their cars or outside pubs or walking home they waved and we "boinged" at them and clapped, all the way out of West Bromwich.
Absolutly top day that I (along with most Pompey fans and West Brom fans that were there) wont forget in a long long time.
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