Portsmouth away may be a fixture next season.. What are your memories of Fratton Park?

by Paul277

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  1. Playing there the season they got relegated to league one, the lights went out in the stadium and delayed the game, because the club was in seriously dire shit financially.

  2. dejafu-Wales on

    FA Cup 3rd round 2009

    Travelled down with my sister and father in law, got there no issues. When we parked up I went to get my scarf out of the boot and my father in law not noticing slams the boot door down on my head…..still have the dent in my skull!

    Blood pissing everywhere. My sister is a nurse and says we need to go to A&E and I’m probably in a state of shock…but I’m adiment NO, I’m OK…. I’m going to football. Find an old bandana in the boot, wrap it round my head and I look like a cross between Terry Butcher (vs Sweden) and the Undertaker. Got stopped by 3 different sets of police on the way to the pub checking I was OK asked if it was Pompey fans and I said no and pointed at my FiL (explanation required everytime!)

    Finally arrive at Fratton Park, greeted with my (and probably most Swans fans) first experience of automated turnstyle entry……utter shit show (they’ve come a long way since then!)! Got in and fuck me the seats are about as wide as Gnats Penis, no matter standing is the way anyways. Game is going well then Nathan Dyer scores past David James and the Swans fans stuck so close together due to the tiny seats go wild, a flying arm catches me on the bandana and I start bleeding again…I’m starting to feel whoozy.
    20 mins later we win a penalty and I start to feel faint, I try to sit down but theres not enough room and I fall forward into the fans infront.

    Next thing I know I’m in an abulance outside the ground, get taken to A&E numerous tests etc but its just a concussion made worse by blood loss! Only time I’ve left the ground early and I’ve seen us lose 5-0+ many times!

  3. Think-Ad-1068 on

    “Pompey what’s the time, pompey pompey what’s the time”

    In reference to Cardiff fans stealing the clock from their scoreboard back in the 80s. Makes me laugh every time.

  4. biddleybootaribowest on

    Getting batteted 5-1 with Yakubu scoring 4, was 25 degrees though and I’m sure the stand didn’t have a roof, best away loss I’ve ever been too.

    We signed him not long after too.

  5. ElvishMystical on

    Portsmouth 1 – 5 Leeds United, FA Cup 4th Round, 23rd January 1999. Nightingale scored for Portsmouth. Wetherall, Harte, Kewell, Ribiero, and Wijnhard scored for Leeds.

  6. My prevailing memory is the last time I went, December 2019. Watched a shit game of football that we comprehensively lost 1-0, Luke Chambers got sent off late on, and the rain relentlessly poured through the back of the Milton End. Had a two mile walk back in the worst of it and smelled like a wet dog for the entire four hour journey home. I’d been several times before, each more miserable than the last, so swore off going from then on.

    The Fratton End belting out Dam Busters towards the end of a game was always impressive and irritating in equal measure. I’d like to see them back, but don’t want to play them any time soon.

  7. papayametallica on

    Nicking their clock back in the good old bad old days.

    I meant someone, I don’t know who, actually stole the big clock that used to grace Fratton Park

  8. SoNotTheMilkman on

    Setting off at 3am in the morning to get there for a 12:30 kick off in the middle of a freezing winter only for the game to get called off moments after we got to Portsmouth because of a frozen pitch

    Edit: I should probably say I did have a decent time in Portsmouth despite that, spent the day in the pub

  9. Going to a few games in the early 90s with some Pompey supporting mates when I was in the Royal Navy. 2 all draw with Kenny Dalgliesh’s Blackburn leaps to mind.

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