I pity County fans,we recently had a game at Hartlepool postponed at 9am when the coaches were leaving around 5am so would have been almost as far as you travelled.
I did not expect the game to be off, i must say,and even when it started to rain harder late in the morning i was still a little surprised to hear there was an inspection.I do not believe it was possible to call it off earlier ,impossible i’d say, but the difference between 12.30 and 1pm .I guess the pitch was playable if it stopped raining ,by 1pm it had not and had shown no signs of doing so.Calling it off at 11am would still not have stopped you setting out.

You may as well kick us while we are down,most others have and i am sure will continue to do so
It is wonderful to watch pissy little teams come to out place and look like they have won the lottery when they have beaten us . We are in trouble,we are struggling but we will be back but it make take a long time
If you travel back down for the rearranged fixture come and have a beer or 4 and i am in the chair

Regards

Having read the Mail article and your blog, I can sympathise with your point of view and I think we can safely say that the headline was, at best, ill-chosen, at worst deliberately controversial.

The only problem I have with what you’ve written is the statement that the pitch couldn’t have been playable but then waterlogged half an hour later. As a resident of these British Isles, I’m surprised that you can take this view. A pitch can become waterlogged and unplayable in minutes, let alone half an hour. Surely you must have been at games which kicked off, only to be abandoned half way through? If not, you are either very young or very lucky.

Anyway, I hope we have a club to welcome you on some future occasion and that the weather gods are smiling on us when (and if) that day comes.

I wanted to write as a Portsmouth fan having read the Daily Mail article.

It is indeed a misleading headline. We were fortunate enough to have a recent trip to Hartlepool called off recently due to the weather early enough for fans not to have got far on their long journey.

Due to our strong away support we appreciate the cost associated with following your team up and down the country. Although your teams travels have been far more successful than ours!

We did have a farcical game against Leicester around 10 years ago, when Fratton Park resembled a swimming pool due to heavy rain.

From the pictures in the Daily Mail it is obvious to me that the game should have been called off earlier. I had myself made the journey down to Fratton Park only to check my phone that it had been called off. I blame the Football League Officials.

It is likely the game will be replayed during a weekday evening, which I’m sure will make it tough for all County fans to attend. I hope I speak for all Pompey fans in saying thank you for piece above.

I hope your club being the oldest in the Country survives your off the field problems and has a fruitful one on it. We look forward to you attending Fratton Park in the near future and boost the Portsmouth coffers through your ticket money.

But yeah, he’s a loose cannon. I can remember one tackle he went in for in front of the away dugout and I did wonder what the hell he was thinking, looked very high to me.

Timewasting is a part of the modern game. We might not approve of it, but it’s always going to be there.

Pogba was late but both players went in high – yellow card at best. Hughes was lucky not to have been sent off – 3 consecutive bad fouls on the full back Robertson (in front of the home crowd)-Hughes later cleared off the line eh? Love the partisan nature of football!!

Westy was out of order but was only following the diving troupe he was playing against!

No gripes against the result though, County look like a decent team and scored two excellent goals!

Similarly, the idea that our players went down easily. As i’ve said in the report, Pogba should not have been on the field the way he took out Kelly, there was a quite audible smack from an elbow that Alan Judge took to the back of the head in front of us, and Lee Hughes was nearly wrestled off the ball when he was inside the penalty before firing his shot away. You seem oblivious to your team’s ability to get stuck in.

Meanwhile, you have Westwood being shot by a sniper in the stands from Arquin’s swing of a leg, then again when he went up for the ball with Lee Hughes. That’s some captain.

When it’s ready, you will be able to order copies of the fanzine online which i can post out to you!