'This Pompey side have relegation written all over them'
Portsmouth supporter Tom Chappell believes the defeat by QPR signals Pompey's stay in the Championship could soon be over.
[BBC] Saturday was the darkest day of Pompey's season. It left me, and I'm sure many present alongside us in the Loftus Road away end, genuinely shocked leaving the ground and heading home. An argument you could've made heading into the weekend was that, although the results hadn't been falling our way, Pompey weren't being blown away and when losing, were usually losing by a single goal in games.
On Saturday that completely changed. The performance was insipid, we were hopeless and, based off what we saw, as heartbreaking as it is to say, nothing is telling me anything other than Pompey are going down. With eight games to go and (somehow!
) still a point keeping us above the drop-zone , that might sound like calling it early. But I'd ask anyone to watch that 90 minutes of football and come to any conclusion other than this is a Pompey side with relegation written all over them. Pompey's away following has snapped.
The travelling support was visibly and audibly furious throughout the game and at full-time, and rightly so. Chants in large part revolved around the ownership, many deemed the players not fit to wear the shirt. For me, the zeitgeist of ownership at Pompey is absolutely a conversation to be had.