Pompey crumble to City slickers
Ouch! That one hurt.
Humiliating and embarrassing. Losing is one thing but capitulating to a 6-0 defeat is another.
Robinho, Stephen Ireland and Elano tore Pompey apart.
But the manner of the drubbing at Man City came out of nowhere.
After the euphoria of the UEFA Cup win on Thursday, Pompey just weren't up for it.
The News columnist Alan McLoughlin was shellshocked in today's (Monday) paper.
The former Pompey stalwart was almost lost for words, which for anyone who knows Macca is quite something.
I spoke to him as he was enduring the miserable drive down the M6.
It will have been a similar story for a host of Pompey fans.
Harry Redknapp's tactics were wrong but, crucially, the players' attitude was also wrong.
A bit of complacency, a bit of tiredness, a lack of desire in the face of a vibrant City - they are all guilty, all apart from Lassana Diarra who was the best of a bad bunch by all accounts.
What I would pay to be a fly on the wall when the team sit down to watch the video nasty.
One reason the match was such a shock was because that sort of thing doesn't happen to Pompey these days.
We are the FA Cup winners, a team with internationals, a team on the up.
For that reason, in the cold light of day, most fans will put it down as a freak result.
They will, though, demand a response. Firstly, against Chelsea in the Carling Cup on Wednesday.
More importantly, Pompey must show how much this performance hurt them.
The best way is to take their anger on beleagured Spurs next weekend in front of their own fans.
That's the least we all expect.
Humiliating and embarrassing. Losing is one thing but capitulating to a 6-0 defeat is another.
Robinho, Stephen Ireland and Elano tore Pompey apart.
But the manner of the drubbing at Man City came out of nowhere.
After the euphoria of the UEFA Cup win on Thursday, Pompey just weren't up for it.
The News columnist Alan McLoughlin was shellshocked in today's (Monday) paper.
The former Pompey stalwart was almost lost for words, which for anyone who knows Macca is quite something.
I spoke to him as he was enduring the miserable drive down the M6.
It will have been a similar story for a host of Pompey fans.
Harry Redknapp's tactics were wrong but, crucially, the players' attitude was also wrong.
A bit of complacency, a bit of tiredness, a lack of desire in the face of a vibrant City - they are all guilty, all apart from Lassana Diarra who was the best of a bad bunch by all accounts.
What I would pay to be a fly on the wall when the team sit down to watch the video nasty.
One reason the match was such a shock was because that sort of thing doesn't happen to Pompey these days.
We are the FA Cup winners, a team with internationals, a team on the up.
For that reason, in the cold light of day, most fans will put it down as a freak result.
They will, though, demand a response. Firstly, against Chelsea in the Carling Cup on Wednesday.
More importantly, Pompey must show how much this performance hurt them.
The best way is to take their anger on beleagured Spurs next weekend in front of their own fans.
That's the least we all expect.
Labels: Alan McLoughlin, Elano, Harry Redknapp, Lassana Diarra, Man City, Pompey, Robinho, Stephen Ireland
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