Defoe

Jermain Defoe signed for Pompey and immediately revealed that he wants to score the goals to fire Pompey into Europe. It's good to see him at Pompey at last. It is just a shame we my lose Benjani to Man City but thats Football.

Play Up Pompey!!!!!!!!!!

Pub

The Mary Rose, St George's Road, Old Portsmouth drink!!!!!!!

deadline day is over or is it?

Portsmouth have contacted the Premier League to see whether Benjani's move to Manchester City can still go ahead.

Pompey claim they went ahead with the purchase of Jermain Defoe from Spurs after City told them they had submitted the relevant forms for Benjani.

But City say the transfer collapsed because the Zimbabwean arrived too late in Manchester to complete the deal before the midnight deadline.

The Premier League is examining the timeline of the relevant paperwork.

Portsmouth manager Harry Redknapp revealed the club had received a call at 2355 GMT - five minutes before the transfer window closed - from Manchester City saying they had completed the relevant documents to sign Benjani.

"That's when Peter Storrie (Portsmouth chief executive) gave the go-ahead for our forms (to register Defoe) to go through," said Redknapp.

"Once their forms were sent, we had to get ours off very quickly. I thought we were struggling for time."

But after completing the Defoe deal for £9m, Portsmouth were then contacted by the Premier League at 0015 GMT saying they had not received all the documents to complete the Benjani deal.

However, Manchester City maintain the 29-year-old did not turn up in time to complete a medical.

"Their one had dragged on a bit because Benji had a bit of a delay getting there with one thing and another," said Redknapp.

"As far as we knew, they sent their forms so I don't see why there should be a problem."

"The grey area now is what paperwork was sent (to the Premier League) at what time between 2355 GMT and midnight," said BBC Sport's John Southall.

If the Benjani deal does fall through, it could leave Portsmouth financially short having banked on using the reported £7m transfer fee to fund Defoe's move from White Hart Lane.

"If 'Benj' is back then we'll have to see where we go with that one," said Redknapp.

"He's a good player and we didn't want to lose him. But we just needed to balance the books with him going and Defoe coming."

Well Done Havant Again!!!

That result against Liverpool was just what the F.A. Cup is all about. Pity the TV people never picked it up idiots.

Red Devil

Time for our second only midweek game this season so far against Manchester United and I think we will.......... ? I don't know with Baros on bord we may get something from this Play Up Pompey!!!!!!!!

Portsmouth 2-1 Plymouth

So Pompey win the Dock Yard derby just, so it's Preston NE in the next round away and it has been picked for TV Play Up Pompey!!!!!!!!!!!

Portsmouth: James, Johnson, Pamarot, Distin, Hreidarsson, Lauren (Davis 67), Pedro Mendes (Hughes 90), Diarra, Kranjcar, Nugent (Mvuemba 46), Mwaruwari.
Subs Not Used: Begovic, Aubey

Booked: Pamarot.

Goals: Diarra 34, Kranjcar 45.

Plymouth: McCormick, Connolly, Timar, Doumbe, Sawyer, Clark (Folly 82), Nalis, Norris, Halmosi, Fallon, Easter (Jutkiewicz 75).
Subs Not Used: Larrieu, Hodges, Summerfield.

Booked: Halmosi, Doumbe.

Goals: Clark 5.

Att: 19,612

Pompey 3-1 Derby

Well it was so good to score at home! It would not have mattered if we had not won; it was just good to score.

The pub was nice in a messy kind of way, most of the people drinking were of the traveller type friendly but a bit smelly but I loved it, even the bloke who kept shouting “come on Derby!!!” I did not bite so he shut up. So we had our drinks and set off for the park.

The game started not good for Pompey we went one down in five when 19-year-old defender Lewin Nyatanga scored from close range, Mum missed it and said “ did they just score I don’t believe it and I had a bad feeling about this game, but no we scored when Sylvian Distin drifted an intelligent ball into the penalty area for Nugent and Pedro Mendes to work an opening for Benjani. And then seconds later, he rose unmarked to head past Derby keeper Lewis Price from Hermann Hreidarsson's cross and Pompey were walking down the tunnel with an unlikely lead.

We pretty much bossed the rest of the game, I know it was only Derby but no game is easy in The Prem League. So Pompey got a third and a hat-trick for Benjani who with Mendes played a one-two as they raced clear on the counter-attack and, with calculated precision, the African striker steered the ball past Price's dive into the far corner of the goal. So I was pleased we won at home and scored, but the real reason we won was because I wore my (lucky) baseball cap for the first time in ages and I will put it on again!!!!!!!!! Play Up Pompey!!!!!!!!!!!!

Pompeygary’s MOTM Benjani What a Hat-Trick

Pompeygary’s Worst Savage Nuff Said

Portsmouth: James, Johnson, Pamarot, Distin, Hreidarsson, Lauren, Diarra (Hughes 81), Pedro Mendes, Kranjcar, Mwaruwari (Mvuemba 89), Nugent.
Subs Not Used: Begovic, Aubey, Songo'o.

Booked: Diarra.

Goals: Mwaruwari 38, 42, 55.

Derby: Price, Mills (Lewis 32), Todd, Moore, Nyatanga, Fagan (Teale 68), Savage, Ghaly, Robert (Barnes 56), Villa, Miller.
Subs Not Used: Hinchliffe, Earnshaw.

Booked: Fagan, Villa.

Goals: Nyatanga 4.

Att: 19,401

Ref: Mike Dean (Wirral).