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1 – Vital Pompey username?
Gandor1.

2 – Where do you come from/where do you currently live?
Came to England from Italy when I was four. Lived in Copnor with my Grandma. We were the first of your “bloody foreigners” with eight of us living in this tiny house. Ma used to be the matriarch and her 4 kids (including my mum) used to go out to work, and then there were us three grandchildren who Ma used to look after while my mum was at work at the Royal Hospital. I never had a dad, he died when I was a baby. Our mum was a stunner (she used to be a clothes model) and we used to tell her if she was a proper mum she would go out and find us a dad. She never did though. We used to play on the Bomb Sites between Moneyfields and Portsmouth Airport. When the weather was bad, we would go and play in the SEB OUT houses in Buckland and Landport during the slum clearance period. Also used to catch butterflies on the site that is now occupied by Copnor Fire Station. I now live in Southsea, near Canoe Lake. I was a George Street girl til I went to the Catholic Convent in Lawrence Road.

3 – How long have you been a Vital Pompey member?
I have been a VP member for exactly one year. (Written in March 2009)

4 – What do you think of Vital Pompey? Be brutally honest!
I like VP a lot. When I decided to follow Pompey, I knew absolutely nothing about football. Everyone on VP were very helpful and friendly and used to call me “mate” – which I thought was great – til they found out I was a woman! I know the site is for football, but I love the sense of fun and the camaraderie that goes on. I also appreciate the wit and humour of some of the participants. I am also impressed by the measured way we (some) analyse some of the awful things that have happened to us. I like the articles that the Rug, Dave, Chix and Paultsmouth write. I loved the recent one Paultsmouth did about a footie match he attended in 1985. I can also remember one about someone’s childhood (I think it was Chix), that was lovely too. I am very impressed with the knowledge that Dave has and I think Rug is a very good editor and comes across as being a very fair and nice man. I visit all the Vital sites of the teams we are about to play and we are, I think, the best for all round appeal. I think we are also one of the liveliest (most of the time). Considering my old man went crackers when he found out I was chatting online to what he imagined was a bunch of “football hooligans” I think everyone is very nice! (So does he now).

5 – How did you find out about Vital Pompey?
I was looking for a Portsmouth site so that I could find out a bit about football and came across VP. I looked no further.

6 – When did you first watch Pompey live – not on box unless this is the only way you have been able to see them? Not necessarily at Fortress Fratton though.
I used to have a very very good looking boyfriend who lived in Alverstone Road (back of the Milton stand) when I was 16. He was football mad and bloody boring. He used to take me to Fratton Park and we used to sit in the North stand. I absolutely loathed and detested it. It was around the time of Albie McCann etc.

7 – How often do you get to watch Pompey?
I go to every home game. I used to go to the pub on my own to watch the away games (if televised) but had some very unsavoury experiences. (Why is it every time a woman talks to a man she doesn’t know, he thinks she fancies him?) Anyway, I now have Sky at home or listen on the radio. I am going to my first away match this week at Middlesborough as I know the team needs as many supporters as possible, and it is difficult for people who work to go so far away of a weekend. I quite fancy Newcastle as well, but don’t know if Mr G will wear it.

8 – Who is your favourite Pompey Player – current and/or former?
I don’t really have a favourite player. I like to watch Nadir Belhadj, Glen Johnson, Jermaine Pennant and Angelo Basinas, and fancy the pants off of Jamo!

9 – What is you favourite Pompey moment?
Milan Milan Milan Milan Milan Milan. The Blue Army Chant that went on forever. The first goal. Especially the second goal – my cousin, all 19 stone of him, was blubbing like a baby!

10 – What are your realistic hopes for Pompey in the future?

  • I would like to see us survive in the premier league.
  • I would like the team to stay more or less intact (is that realistic?)
  • I would like a new owner to be settled in before the next transfer window.
  • I would like us to get a new Manager before the next transfer window. I would like someone like Mark Hughes, who may well become available.
  • I would like the existing stadium to be enlarged and not moved, if that is possible and I would like it all done as soon as the new owner takes over.

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