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December 2025 The Magic 40 Points EFL Championship Matchday 21 - Sheffield United (Home) Disappointed with this one. Sheffield United are a decent side, of that there is no doubt, but they aren't exactly flying and even this win for them only lifts them to 14th in the table. A game I...

November 2025 Two More Big Injuries May Hamper Progress EFL Championship Matchday 15 - Southampton (Home) Our managerless rivals are sent home on their sorry way with zero points and our fans are going to enjoy their Saturday night! Great result and well deserved as we were the better side...

Good luck in the playoffs my friend! Great achievement to sneak in there and nice to carry a decent unbeaten run of form into the game against Partick!

October 2025 Recovering From A Mini Poor Run Of Form Some information from the data analysis team makes for some positive reading after the opening 10 games of the Championship season, as we seem to be performing above average in all areas right now. EFL Championship Matchday 11 - Oxford...

Good to see you back my man! Look forward to following this!

September 2025 Getting To Grips With It EFL Championship Matchday 5 - Preston (Home) It's back to back victories and our first home win of the season as well. Callum Lang comes in up top for the injured Colby Bishop and makes the most of his opportunity by bagging a brace. EFL Championship...

August 2025 Our final pre season friendly ended in an unexpected but very welcome 4-0 win over Belgian side Gent. A fluid counter attack style worked a treat and we took our chances well, whilst limiting them to zero clear cut chances even though they did manage 21 shots at our goal in the game...

July 2025 After settling in to my role and meeting my squad, it was time to meet with the board and go over the objectives that were discussed at my interview. There is no doubt that the initial expectation is to establish ourselves as a Championship side and not get drawn into any relegation...

The Squad Goalkeepers I'm not quite sure why the first team squad has 5 keepers in it, but I will certainly be looking to trim this by 1 or 2. Austrian, Nicolas Schmid, is head and shoulders above the rest and will clearly be the number 1 between the sticks for us this season. My only...

Play Up Pompey Portsmouth Football Club are a professional football team based on the south coast of England in Portsmouth, Hampshire. They currently compete in the English Football League Championship, the second tier of English football. The club play their home games at Fratton Park...

Chapter 14 Investing In The Future Monday 27th January 2025 Investing in the future is absolute key and I am pleased the board have reacted positively to my requests to improve the youth recruitment and junior coaching budgets. I mentioned in my last post that December was a good month...

Chapter 13 December, December, Oh What A December! Tuesday 31st December 2024 We were off to Germany to play Bayer Leverkusen who were looking to kick start their Champions League campaign as they came into this game sitting 21st in the league phase. Alex Grimaldo was highlighted as their...

Chapter 12 Real Madrid Are Just So Good Sunday 3rd November 2024 Our first draw of the season came against Sevilla as we grab a point when just 2 minutes away from defeat. Christantus Uche came off the bench to head home from a corner in the 93rd minute to ensure we take something from the...

Chapter 11 Talk About A Tough Start Thursday 19th September 2024 Pablo Torre didn't play in our opening day fixture as he was tired, having only just returned from the U23 Spain squad at the Olympics. However, it only took him 5 minutes to score on his debut here against Valencia on our way to...

Chapter 10 Preparing To Play A New Formation Friday 16th August 2024 My first departure of the Summer is goalkeeper David Soria. Now you obviously never want to lose your number 1 keeper, but I have to admit that Soria was a bit of a disruptive influence at times last year, disagreeing with me...