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[Alex]

make sure we are well represented in your workplace.

http://bobbymoorefund.cancerresearchuk.org/get-involved/football-shirt-friday/

[ManagementGuru]

This wouldn't work in every workplace - for example Norwich City play Middlesbrough on Friday - imagine the banter if one of the Middlesbro players supported Norwich and turned up in a Norwich kit.

[Number23]

Yep. Red and white stripes don't go down well in Pompey. I'll have to dig out an away kit.

[John Edwards]

Yep. Red and white stripes don't go down well in Pompey. I'll have to dig out an away kit.

Whereabouts in Portsmouth do you live, Number 23? My first job after leaving school was on Pompey's evening paper The News, quite soon after it relocated from the city centre to Hilsea, on the northern outskirts. Bit of a wrench leaving family and friends behind in Manchester, but well worthwhile. Great place to learn the ropes, and I'll always be grateful to the late Mike Neasom for taking me under his wing. The paper sold something like 100,000 copies a day back then and produced a sports paper (think it was called Sports Mail or The Green 'Un) every Saturday. I had digs in Southsea to begin with, then a flat in North End and finally a cottage-share in a lovely little village called Westbourne, near Emsworth. Pompey only attracted fairly modest gates but were pretty well established in the old Second Division (mid-70s). Shame how their fortunes have slumped, but fair play to the fans for the way they've stuck by them and turned out in numbers. Fond memories..

[York Alty]

Have ro wear a nasty blue top fof work. Will wear the pink Alty top when I can.

[Number23]

Yep. Red and white stripes don't go down well in Pompey. I'll have to dig out an away kit.

Whereabouts in Portsmouth do you live, Number 23? My first job after leaving school was on Pompey's evening paper The News, quite soon after it relocated from the city centre to Hilsea, on the northern outskirts. Bit of a wrench leaving family and friends behind in Manchester, but well worthwhile. Great place to learn the ropes, and I'll always be grateful to the late Mike Neasom for taking me under his wing. The paper sold something like 100,000 copies a day back then and produced a sports paper (think it was called Sports Mail or The Green 'Un) every Saturday. I had digs in Southsea to begin with, then a flat in North End and finally a cottage-share in a lovely little village called Westbourne, near Emsworth. Pompey only attracted fairly modest gates but were pretty well established in the old Second Division (mid-70s). Shame how their fortunes have slumped, but fair play to the fans for the way they've stuck by them and turned out in numbers. Fond memories..

I live in Widley just over 'the back of the hill' but I work at the University in town. I know Westbourne and Emsworth is a favorite place for a pub-crawl.
I have a season ticket at Fratton Park - the fall from grace has been dramatic but the fans have stuck with the club which is back in the black and is being run sensibly (at last). Nice to be associated with two clubs being run by honest people with a practical, long-term view.
At the end of last season I was torn between wanting Pompey to stay up and the thought of seeing Alty at Fratton Park.

The News is still going strong and there is still a weekly Sports Mail - full colour now rather than the 'Football Pink' it used to be. I remember reading Mike Neasom's reports

A bit of an aside ... a friends son got a job reporting Havant and Waterlooville games for the Sports Mail, phoning in half-time and full-time reports (in the days before mobile internet access). Full time reports had to be called in as the whistle went to get the report into the paper as it was printed and distributed within an hour of the games ending. One week he called in his report of the riotous scenes as the H&W scored a 'last kick of the game winner'. The report was printed under an eye-catching headline and it was only after paper was in teh shops that he found out that the uproar was because the 'goal' had been disallowed.

[John Edwards]

Yep. Red and white stripes don't go down well in Pompey. I'll have to dig out an away kit.

Whereabouts in Portsmouth do you live, Number 23? My first job after leaving school was on Pompey's evening paper The News, quite soon after it relocated from the city centre to Hilsea, on the northern outskirts. Bit of a wrench leaving family and friends behind in Manchester, but well worthwhile. Great place to learn the ropes, and I'll always be grateful to the late Mike Neasom for taking me under his wing. The paper sold something like 100,000 copies a day back then and produced a sports paper (think it was called Sports Mail or The Green 'Un) every Saturday. I had digs in Southsea to begin with, then a flat in North End and finally a cottage-share in a lovely little village called Westbourne, near Emsworth. Pompey only attracted fairly modest gates but were pretty well established in the old Second Division (mid-70s). Shame how their fortunes have slumped, but fair play to the fans for the way they've stuck by them and turned out in numbers. Fond memories..

I live in Widley just over 'the back of the hill' but I work at the University in town. I know Westbourne and Emsworth is a favorite place for a pub-crawl.
I have a season ticket at Fratton Park - the fall from grace has been dramatic but the fans have stuck with the club which is back in the black and is being run sensibly (at last). Nice to be associated with two clubs being run by honest people with a practical, long-term view.
At the end of last season I was torn between wanting Pompey to stay up and the thought of seeing Alty at Fratton Park.

The News is still going strong and there is still a weekly Sports Mail - full colour now rather than the 'Football Pink' it used to be. I remember reading Mike Neasom's reports

A bit of an aside ... a friends son got a job reporting Havant and Waterlooville games for the Sports Mail, phoning in half-time and full-time reports (in the days before mobile internet access). Full time reports had to be called in as the whistle went to get the report into the paper as it was printed and distributed within an hour of the games ending. One week he called in his report of the riotous scenes as the H&W scored a 'last kick of the game winner'. The report was printed under an eye-catching headline and it was only after paper was in teh shops that he found out that the uproar was because the 'goal' had been disallowed.

Oh no, ultimate nightmare! I know how tight the deadlines are, and there would be no retrieving that one. I imagine it must have been an interesting conversation when he phoned the sports desk and said 'Er, about that last-minute winner...' Showing my age now, but when I was on The News, Havant and Waterlooville were two separate clubs. There was Havant Leigh Park and there was Waterlooville, who were managed by the former Leeds inside-forward Jim Storrie. I got on really well with Jim, and he invited me to join them for pre-season training one summer. I was on my knees by the end of it! Now there's a thought, Alty stepping out at Fratton Park. Wouldn't want to see Pompey dropping out of the League, but that would at least be some consolation..