One of my favourite games at Roker, I can recall loads of little things.
It was f***ing boiling and I was in the mainstand paddock, Roker wing right next to their lot. The first time I ever heard the "When I was young chant" .As mentioned by others, Portsmouth brought about 5000 up. But I think it's probably the poorest effort vocally by any large away turnout I have seen. Apart from a few pre match Play Up Pompeys, I didn't hear a peep.
Singing "Theres only one Billy Bunter" to one of their rather "full figured" supporters for ages. HE tried to laugh it off but you could tell he was seething.
The handball on the line and Paul Walsh hoying a tantrum. Andy Awford, who the press were bigging up at the time looking really poor. He spent most of the game with one hand on his hip and flicking his fringe from his eyes with the other.
After the match, loads of their lot offering people out at the car park next to the Mainstand. A Sunderland lad went over and went nose to nose with one of their lads at the front and called him a soft bastard. As an impressionable 16 year old, I thought it was the bravest and coolest thing I had ever seen.
Straight after that, 3 teenage lasses properly in the face of a Portsmouth supporter walking to his car. Blocking his way, gloating like fuck and screaming in his face. They were well out of order and if they were lads they couldn't have complained if he gave them a clip.
