1. The selection of pubs in the area are superb.

2. Blue doesn`t stain as easy as other colours.

3. It gets you out on a saturday...

4. Great for the kids, the huge vocabulary can be heard from anywhere in the Fratton End and may improve the young - uns English.

5. You can download "super stevie claridge" and "play up pompey" for your mobile phone and play it loudly in public places.

6. 1 `s are easier to add up than 3 `s.

7. You can rip up (with good reason) all those newspapers the wife wants to keep.

8. Our toilets are cleaner than the French.

9. You can get other people to buy you drinks knowing that your a Portsmouth fan will imediately make them feel sorry for you.

10. It is a great stress remover!! Facts and Stuff...


Did you know....? Ernie Thompson was once sent off for Pompey against Southend, however, after appeals from both sides he was allowed back onto the pitch! The FA censured both clubs and the ref was suspended!

Pompey got rid of their supporters club during the 1936-37 season, it had droped from 1,700 to 143!

Portsmouth played host to the first FA cup match played under flood lights against Newcastle in 1956.

Robert lyth was a player, a manager, director and chairman of Portsmouth during his lifetime.

In 1911 Pompey had to travel to Welsh side Mardy, but the country was in the middle of a train strike (again). They left on Friday night and still arrived one hour late! The game went ahead but therefore finished one hour late... yep... there were no trains running at this time and Pompey had to hire cars to take them the 21 miles back to Cardiff!

Steve Claridge has a curious pre-match ritual when the team stays in a hotel. He always has to have a room on his own, and te first thing he does is to remove the hotel sheets and replace them with ones he has brought from home! His favorite pre-match meal is Rice Krispies and baked beans - sometimes together.

Jack Tinn, who guided Pompey to three FA cup Finals put his success down to his lucky spats. Throughout the 1939 cup run, which ended up in a 4-1 victory over Wolves, Tin wore the special spats, which were religiosly put on for him by the same player before every match! He always said the cup would be heading South that year too....

In the 1924 FA cup Final to Man. City, Pompey had music hall entertainer Bud Flanagan in the dressing room to improve moral. The referee of that game was Stanley Rouse, who later became President of FIFA.