Big Grin

It was excellent to see our David James worries confounded on Saturday as Pompey went to Wembley and come home with the FA Cup.

I’m not all that up on football to be honest, having moved an awful lot in the last 20 years I’ve generally supported the team closest to my home town. That’s “support” in the loosest sense, all it usually involves is reading the match write ups and tracking their league position as the season progresses. That’s worked out pretty well to be honest having luckily decided to track teams that turned out to be on the ascendant. 4 years or watching Watford rise from the fourth division to what was then the 1st, a big gap then following Brighton and Hove Albion get to the championship and the finally seeing Pompey win the Championship to take the step up to Premiership glory.

And then I moved to Southampton but for the time I stuck with flying a flag for Pompey. The previous few years gave a bit of an insight into why people will follow a team for life and give an inkling of understanding why clubs can inspire such loyalty. Redknapp and the ever-present soap like drama that seems to follow him around is at the core of it. Getting into the premiership, the defection to Soton, the nailbiting season end as he managed to keep the club in the Premiership. Taking the team to Wembley and coming home with that excellent silvery prize. It’s all great.

On top of that I married a good Pompey girl from a family who are fans and all help keep me on the straight and narrow. So that’s kept me skate despite living amidst the red and white of Southampton for the last couple of years and I can’t see that changing