Sunday 17 April 2011

16/04/2011 Cardiff City 3-0 Portsmouth: Rocha's season ends in a cloud

@PompeyChicken was otherwise engaged on Saturday out in the beautiful Wiltshire countryside wrestling with a temperamental strimmer and petrol driven lawnmower. It's a long story...

With intermittant mobile telephone coverage and a poor @SolentRadio reception keeping in touch with progress with this Championship encounter was difficult...and frustrating!

Oh well with a second consecutive 3-0 reversal and another sending-off maybe this was one game I did well to miss. This was Ricardo Rocha's second red card in three games and will incur a four match ban according to reports.

So, instead of a report here instead is a lovely Word Cloud created by using the text from various match reports to try and summarise the game. Well! I thought I'd go for something a little bit different to try and summarise the match!

I used the following websites, identified through Newsnow:

Portsmouth FC Official website
Cardiff City Official website
Daily and Sunday Express
Daily and Sunday Mail
Yahoo! Eurosport
Teamtalk
Football 365
ESPN Soccernet
Wales Online

Word Cloud created using www.wordle.net

Portsmouth versus Cardiff City: Jamie Ashdown, Ritchie De Laet, Greg Halford, Ricardo Rocha, Hermann Hreidarsson, Jonathan Hogg, Joel Ward, David Cotterill, Liam Lawrence, David Nugent, Dave Kitson. Substitutes: Daryll Flahavan, Nadit Ciftci, Danny Webber, Carl Dickinson, Aaron Mokoena, Kanu

Attendance: 24,007

MOTM: In their View From The Stands @Pompey_Pages called Danny Webber as Pompey's MOTM for a lively performance when he came on as substitute

Next up: Swansea City (h) on Easter Saturday 23rd April

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