I Say 'Come On Arsenal!'

No offence taken, would be hoping for the same if we was in your position. This Europe lark is GREAT!

as for taking half of *********s ex players, think you got just as many from Spurs.. more if Cu*tball's included!

It won't make any difference to the number of available European places as I expect us to qualify through League position anyway! 7th spot should see you qualify!

Wrong!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Only 3 places are available in the UEFA Cup. If the FA Cup final is contested by a team outside the top 4, only 5th and 6th placed clubs will qualify. Likely to be Bolton and Spurs. 7th will enter the Inter-toto - if they wish. Pompey should hope Spurs win the UEFA Cup, the Carling Cup or get to the FA Cup final and lose interest in the Premiership

As pompey have never been in Europe and the thought of them doing so in the immediate future had never entered my mind, before the current one, I'll take any help we can get so Arsenal finish the job you started and open up another place in the league. Bolton or Spurs won't win the FA Cup, this will probably be contested between Arsenal, Man United and Chelsea anyway.

UEFA can't take a place away can they 5th and 6th get into Europe through the league, carling cup and FA cup winners the same so if Arsenal and Chelsea are both already in Europe this reverts to the league so top seven will make it in, without question should any two from three of Arsenal Chelsea and United be contesting the FA Cup also....

Maybe if you get into Europe you'll spend some money on that toilet you call a ground - get a roof on your stand you pikeys, you're supposed to be in the premier league.

yeah get a stand, not a caravan!

Mesmo - true our ground is far from Premiership standard, but how many clubs before us have spent millions on a superb stadium, only to be relegated and fighting off administration? Just take a look at Leicester City, what a mess. When we've stabilised on the Prem then we can look at investing in the club. After all, no point in spending money on the bodywork of a car if the engine is no good is it, priorities my lad. As for the rest of you who are full of sour grapes (can only be Spurs, poor lot), we have no need to fight relegation this season as we are already as good as staying up. It appears to me you are in fact more worried of our league position than that of your own, perhaps you should concentrate your efforts more in putting that right first - i.e., people living in glass houses should never throw stones.

all u are is arsenal reserves!

Fair enough, I'm wrong on that point, I'll hold my hands up billy_nick... Just as well Chelsea, Arsenal and Man Utd are most likely to clean up the domestic cups between them, with two from three contesting the lot...

I've seen it throughout vital football, Spurs think they are owed something as they are a giant of the game!!! As I said Ozi Gooner too many Spurs seem to think they are owed something by the game when they're not...

Yeah couldn't agree more seems to be exactly whats happening to Spurs thfc69 so the two go togther well, valid point...

thfc69 - seeing as you lot spout so much **** then it is clear you know one hell of a lot about toilets and going down the pan! At least none of our players DIVE!! As for David Frost, nice piece of constructive criticism, what a shining wit you are - and that is a piece of Spoonerism for you! [Edited by TruePompeyBlue]

OK, OK, reading through all this it's like having an argument with Alan Bennett... football fans that still try to have a jolly reasonable argument that merely slagging each other off... strange concept... maybe we HAVE been near the Woolwich Wanderers too long. What DID you expect though, writing an article like that? If we posted one saying 'Come on Saints, stuff Pompey', how would you feel?

Well you can't argue with Sir David Frost can you... I've been called a lot worse for a lot less, coming from Sir David makes this constructive criticism OK so its fine TruePompeyBlue (welcome to the team by the way we've not been introduced)...

Tottenscum, Giant of football! HAHAHAHA, I've heard of sleeping giants, but if spurs are giants there past sleep, there in a ******** coma and the life support shouldve been pulled along time ago. I wouldnt be to insulted by that Arsenal reserves comment our reserves have done alright for themselves and will continue that by finishing off what we started at No Heart Lane Wednesday

I don't like scum but personally don't get as caught up in the anti-scum some do, more concerned about us than them, I wouldn't have cared less and personally wouldn't have got involved as such. I'll be honest I'm not that big a fan of Spurs because too many of you think that you are something you are not and deserve more than you get but this was never meant to get at Spurs fans just want something to happen that will benefit Pompey to help give us something we've never had EUROPEAN FOOTBALL...

Pompeyrug - thanks for the welcome, there is an intro on the forum by the way.

OK, I'll check it out don't often get a lot of time for the site anymore but just got drawn in here...

In fact, if you're comparing resources with output, pound for pound, Pompey are ten times the club Spurs are.

yeah LD then so are Reading and Sheffield

Well said VPA, I do wonder if there is a ting of jealousy from some quarters because the likes of Mendes, Davis, Pamarot and Campbell are doing well here.

At the end of the day, I can see why this article has been posted. If you think about it, as a Portsmouth fan, he's got every right to wish the best for his team, at the expense of WHOEVER. That's why it's a competition and a league. I have a load of Pompey supporting mates, and with Pamarot and Mendes there I wish them all the best. They've improved so much over the last season, that look at where they are now! I would say in Spurs' defence, we have been playing a helluva lot more matches than Portsmouth this season, and our league form could be attributed to fatigue. That said, I'm not one for excuses, and don't want to take anything away from Pompey's fantastic efforts so far. I agree with the comments, Spurs don't have a divine right to be up there, and we still have to work tooth and nail to get there... but you would be thinking with the resources, squad and coaching staff / structure we have in place - we should at least be getting a UEFA spot via the league, and maybe a cup (I'm greedy, two will do). However, I don't feel the season would be an abject failure if that doesn't occur, with the relative inexperience of our players and coach - you can see the potential there - and I hope that the players, fans and chairman have patience to help realise the potential that is obviously there with the current setup. End of the day, Pompey are above Spurs, however I like to think that we'll finish above you guys come end of the season - however that is a 'wait and see' job isn't it? Good luck Pompey...

Mendes is a player Jol regrets selling, he's hinted at such in the past especially as some that kept him out have now gone. Primus, O'Neil, Taylor just three names off the top of my head with real quality and not former Spurs players...

No Hackneydemon, he is not - you seem to have such good knowledge of the type of people you like to use as insults, it is a shame however that you have not yet mastered the art of spelling. Run along, there's a good little lad.

Comments attacking clubs and to a degree supporters are "acceptable", it's part of football but when comments on here or anywhere else get personal Hackneydemon you've taken it too far, you make me sick... (and my inbred family!)

Pompeyrug - I would not worry about offending some, it happens. You cannot make an omlette without breaking eggs, you did after all make it clear at the end of your article that you wished no offence to Spurs, sadly some of them know nothing more than to be offensive. A good article and one that was written with justifiable reason, certainly was not unprofessional.

The article's definitely caused enough people to react to it, in both a positive and negative way - so don't discredit yourself mate. Newspaper journalists get it all the time, and if anything, intentionally want to be controversial / fractious / opinionated. If I'm honest, the whole European qualification palaver is so poorly defined / managed - it's a wonder that even the FA / UEFA / FIFA know what to do when certain situations occur.

DB, credit must go to VitalPompeyAdmin as it was he who wrote it, but it is a very good piece of knowledge.

I think you were a bit naive with the article but one thing doesn't change... WILL YOU PLEASE GET A ROOF ON YOUR STAND - I've got soaked three times there now and it's getting past a joke... oh and get a license, you're about the only club in the world that doesn't serve alcohol - which considering you're in the middle of a very dry industrial estate is NOT FUNNY.

Dear Roofless Rabbi - sorry, I fail to see your point. Yes, I'll be the first to admit that Spurs have underacheived for decades, but they are still a club with a tradition of good, top-flight football... what's wrong with being proud of that? We maintain that tradition in the belief that, if we as fans do, our club will aspire to be great again - and currently, there seems to be a management in place that are prepared to do that. Or am I supposed to say "I know me place guvn'or" and doff my cap each time someone from Arsenal, Chelsea or Man U walk by? If you view having the quality to compete in Europe your benchmark, then the same should be said for everything about your club - including the ground... having Eastern European standard facilities hardly speaks of a belief in your permanence in the top flight. Complain, make something happen, or "Is it alright for the likes of you, Guvn'or"?

Errr, we'd gone past that I thought and on to Fratton Park (twinned with Katowice)? Pompey are above Spurs because they have more points... so therefore it stands to reason that they deserve to be... anyway, what's admin doing butting into a perfectly good argument?

how ******** sad are you pompey fans having to cheer on another team just because your team is s h i t

niallg, are you telling me you weren't hoping Wigan would do you a favour against Arsenal on the last game of last season?

Dear Mesmo, there's nothing wrong with being proud of your club at all. You certainly shouldn't doff your cap at any of the big four. Only when you beat them (chelsea). Our ground is a disgrace. but it's our disgrace and we're proud of it. If it had been an animal, someone would have put it out of its misery years ago, along with some of the players. as for eastern european facilities, so what? If football is about a gleaming new souless stadium four miles from the nearest town and a PA you can hear, then i'll take our dickensian ground anyday. Over the past three seasons your fans have packed out the away end every time our clubs have met. So there's at least 3 000 Spurs fans who don't mind spending 90 minutes in the elements at our "dump" and paying £30 for the privelidge?

its fun on here today! I sence a little tension!

I'm not a "sports journalist" weststandvoice and don't claim to be I'm a Pompey fan simple as... And as such this "fantastic peice of sports journalist" was written from a fan with passion and the love of his club to succeed not against as much help as we could get. I'd give anything to see Pompey get into Europe even cheer on another club if it could help... I didn't give it as much thought - reasearch into what I thought was right in terms league positioning to gain European entry - as maybe I should but this is because I'm a fan not a reporter my head ruled my heart on this occassion, got an idea and ran with it. Was proved wrong but the intent was never to provoke such an anrgy Spurs reaction, merely highlighting what I thought could benefit our quest for European football...

weststandvoice, whats happened to david platts hair?

Cant Be TPB or he would have known about the pubs and that the Industrial estate is on one side only of the ground. Having said that have you been to WHL, bloody awful area and no trains after a Sunday Match. I spent a nice evening in the directors box after the game with old world cup winning martin where he apologised to me for Zokoras dive, hoped Jol would apologise and said he thought the result extremely lucky to spurs. I also one 50 quid on the raffle which i had to use to get a cab back to civilisation.