How much would it mean to you?

Hmm ..I'm in a predicament that quite a few Pompey fans may share.. I grew up in a village called Overton near Basingstoke and was the only Pompey fan kid in the village, by the time i had established myself at the secondary school at the next village down, i had made friends with a few lads from other villages who were lonely blues and a few of our mates adopted Pompey as their team, this was the early 70's we were rubbish and skint with serious financial problems and at the bottom of the second, then third divisions, and only boast against them lot was we had bigger support and a better ground..( sound familiar?) by the mid 70’s lunchtimes at school regularly consisted of big mass bundles with saints fans ( these were more in the mould of British bulldog rather 657, and no one was hurt)…but constant SSip taking…and them winning that game against MUFC in 76…and the scoes against us 2-1, 2-1, 4-0, 1-0, it was agony….so even though I haven’t seen those guys for 35 years-except the Blue ones who see at games here and there..i always think of them.. My predicament is that as a Fiercely PROUD HAMPSHIRE geezer rather than specifically a “Pompey geezer” ..I can’t help but wonder if I somehow I might have part of the SCUM hating gene missing by not growing up or living in the City..it means everything to me to beat them, to see them relegated, to laugh and joke at their teams failings..but I do not want to hit them with scaffold poles , nor did I want them to go out of business a few years back.. I also think that growing up with them in the dominant position, and then having to cling to superfluous point like having a better ground and bigger support ( which in some sense is still the case, but is not obvious to the general footballing world in the 21C as they have the “new” stadium and larger gates), all bodes unwell for me and always leads me to fear Playing them..why because I hate HATE…HATE..losing to them. Incidently..I do think that we will beat them at Wembley in the play off final this year which will be the greatest ever Pompey game

I dont think it's so much that a lot of folk only go to this game as much as all the folks who go occasionally all want to go to this match..

I'm so up for this. This game is THE game. It is also THE game for Saints (they have sang about it for months and months - it was the main focus of their promotion party). I love these games - win, lose or draw, because there is no other game that gets close to the amount that depends upon it.

This game brings out the worst in me. I hat the scum. Having wtached slide down to the fourth & being the under dog for decades, having our faces rubbed in it at every opportunity, you can't help but hate them. I have worked in scum since 1992 & still do. married & divorced one of them, Lived there for over 16 years & never settled. All these things have effected my thought process about the two teams, it's much more than a game. I don't accept the mindless idiots but for the passion & pride of being Pompey born & bred, I hope we stuff the scum.