Finally my little nephew Reece suffered the first league defeat of his Pompey following career – after not knowing this in his first 11 games – when we lost to Spurs at the weekend, but it was not a bad start to life as a Pompey fan was it?
He was born on September 7th 2007, a few days after we were spanked by Arsenal and other than the league cup defeat to Blackburn, a game in which we were also horrendous he had not known – not that he would know much to be honest! – the taste of defeat in the league until Spurs beat us 1-0, in yet another game that we were poor.
I am gutted that we could not have made it through until his first Christmas unbeaten – but even after this we have some mighty tough games coming up anyway – and that he could not quite get his first ton under his belt, my thinking is he was 98 or 99 days unbeaten – in the league – in his lifetime, so he still had a good innings really didn’t he.
Clearly we never want to lose, I get worse with defeats with age but in many ways I reckon that this defeat could be a very good thing as it will hopefully give a few of the players a kick up the backside that they need to perform at home again, not to mention finally open Harry Redknapp’s eyes to a change in playing style at home, hopefully!
Well ‘little spoon’ as Reece is affectionately known – there is that actress called Reece Witherspoon isn’t there, so we call him Reecey little spoon, or simply ‘little spoon’ – you had a good run little man, not many of us, hardly any in fact can say that we managed to go more than 3 months at the start of our Pompey following days without knowing a defeat can we?
In fact maybe some of us can probably say that before this none of us had ever known such an unbeaten stretch like this at any point in our Pompey lives either?
Let the unbeaten stretch re-start again now – hopefully he, and of course us, can reach the 100 this time…
PLAY UP POMPEY!
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