The Portsmouth Post
Boardroom21 Aug 2028
The scrutiny sharpens at Portsmouth
Nobody upstairs has said anything, which is the loudest thing they could do. Results buy silence in this game; the account at Portsmouth is running low.
Match19 Aug 2028
Portsmouth tear Peterborough United apart
Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 3‑0 against Peterborough United, and it could have been more.
Player ratings21 Aug 2028
A brace, and Rio Ngumoha takes the afternoon — 8.06
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Rio Ngumoha provided it, and the 8.06 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Player ratings21 Aug 2028
Age has not caught Josh Murphy yet — 8.03
At 33 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.03 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Player ratings21 Aug 2028
Adrian Segecic runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 24. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad21 Aug 2028
Real improvement from Yusuf Akhamrich at Portsmouth
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Yusuf Akhamrich is 22, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad21 Aug 2028
Tempers go at Portsmouth
John Swift was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad21 Aug 2028
A late step up for Colby Bishop
At 31 the improving is meant to be over. It is not: 4 points better than the mark taken at the start of the year, which is the sort of thing that happens to players who take the boring parts of the job seriously.
Boardroom21 Aug 2028
Graduation day at Portsmouth
5 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
In brief
- The terraces Portsmouth supporters have found a favourite in Thomas Waddingham
- Market Nicholas Lawrence steps up from the Portsmouth academy
- Market Portsmouth promote Joseph Bailey from within