I’ve enjoyed spending the first couple of months of the season collecting votes and comments in response to my question: Which has been your favourite Pompey ‘big occasion?’
I asked you to select a top game from all the Blues’ Wembley appearances, games that had secured promotion, a title or a relegation escape, plus the AC Milan game.
The leading five will be revealed in my programme and Sports Mail columns on Saturday but I can now reveal the two games that finished, jointly, just outside that top five.
One was a promotion-clinching 2-0 win at Northampton in 1980.
Among those voting for this game was @Pompeyisa, who said: ‘Fans were a lot more fanatical in those days as shown by the scenes in Trafalgar Square that night.’
Bunky ‘Dave’ Bowers voted the same way, confessing: ‘I ended up in the Trafalgar Square fountains.’
Mick McKeown remembered it well, too, and wondered quite how, in the days before mobile phones or the internet, thousands of delirious Blues fans organised a stop-off in London. I’ll tweet some of Mick’s pictures from the day during this week.
Also just outside the top five in the great-escape day at Huddersfield in 1996.
Neil Sillett, our physio at the time, voted and said: ‘We (Deon Burton) scored a great goal, too, and did Milwall go down?’ Yes they did, Neil, on goal difference...
Stuart Crow added: ‘Pre-internet, pocket radios, rumours sweeping round ground about how Milwall were doing, Jas Rees’ game of his life.’
Tune in soon to find out the top five and which game won.
* Read View from the North Stand in the Pompey programme and Bone Idle Gossip in the Sports Mail throughout the season - and if the wind is in the right direction, on here too.
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