Saturday 8 October 2011

01/10/2011 Leeds United 1-0 Portsmouth: Views Of The Pompey Family On Twitter

This is the programme for the match. I bought this at the Portsmouth Football Programme and Memorabilia Fiar at Fratton Park. This is the most expensive matchday programme I've seen this season at £4. West Ham United's programme was £3.50.

I couldn't attend this Championship match at Elland Road and I was out of the South Coast region to be able to pick up a radio commentary.

However, I followed the game on Twitter via @OffcialPompey and when I got home I thought I'd take a look at all the tweets of the day to see what others' experience was like.

Here are some anonomised tweets I selected from a search of #Pompey split in to four sections: pre-match, in-play (first half/second half) and post-match.


PRE-MATCH TWEETS
The amount of goals both #Pompey & Leeds have conceded recently suggests todays game will be 0-0...

Is it just me who think Henderson has to start today #Pompey ??

I thought there were a lot of positives today despite the result. Decisions didn't go our way and we were the better team. SC 17:15 #pompey

Beautiful day in leeds. Looking forward to a high scoring game hopefully! #pompey

Anyone got a stream for the #Leeds vs #Pompey game?

#Pompey team v Leeds: Henderson; Ward, Halford, Pearce, Ben Haim; Lawrence (c), Mullins, Norris; Riise, Huseklepp; Benjani

One change from side that lost to Peterborough on Tuesday as Henderson makes league debut in place of Ashdown #pompey

#Pompey subs: Ashdown, Rocha, Mokoena, Williams, Kanu

Interesting team news for #Pompey v Leeds, Henderson makes league debut replacing Ashdown.

Bold move by Cotterill dropping Ashdown, lets hope #Pompey have the 3 points at 4.45pm though #PUP

Wow, leeds so empty. Ken bates destroying football right here. #pompey #lufc

IN-PLAY TWEETS FROM THE FIRST HALF
Love a cheeky feed to watch the #Pompey match!

GOAL: Leeds United 1 - 0 Pompey. Danny Pugh #Pompey

Snodgrass sends a corner into the box and Pugh powers home a header #Pompey

Why are we still playing 4-5-1. If SC really wants to go on the attack surely we should be playing 4-4-2? #Pompey

We look shocking, quite glad my stream has gone down, very poor, #Pompey #howlongtogel?

Plaaaaaaay up #Pompey

#Pompey are being cut apart so easily. Can't get an attack together. Halford very close to scoring, but it wouldn't have been deserved.

Why do we always have to wait until we are 1 down before going at a team ? Cant remember the last time #Pompey went in winning at half time

HT: Leeds 1 - 0 #Pompey

IN-PLAY TWEETS FROM THE SECOND HALF
#Pompey are being slaughtered by Leeds . . .floodgates to open in second half. #Pompey fans as quiet as church mice.

Disappointing half, not keeping the ball very well. Its not the formation. We're not out if it, next goal important. #Pompey

#Pompey can't hear our fans today, are there few there? Are they just gobsmacked? Time for a chorus of 4-4-2? To give SC a clue?

RT Kanu on for Bjorn Helge Riise - does that sound like 4-4-2?! Blasphemy! #Pompey

#Pompey appear to be playing 4-4-2 with Kanu and Benjani up front and Huseklepp and Lawrence out wide (51 mins)

I so wish we'd been playing this formation all season. Much better suits our players #Pompey

Oh erik huseklepp, you are the love of my life, oh erik huseklepp I'll let you shag my wife, oh erik huseklepp I want blonde hair to #Pompey

Attendance: 22,476 #Pompey

Dear #Pompey I love u dearly but can't sit listening to u lose every week. So I'm currently walking the dogs.

#Pompey are certainly giving this a good go and can't be faulted for a lack of effort (67 mins)

Sounds like we're giving them a game now. 442 at last! #Pompey

Started off this year thinking we have a good chance of a play-off spot, Utter disapointment so far.. #Pompey

Typical, another loss on the cards #Pompey

FT: Leeds 1 - 0 #Pompey

POST-MATCH TWEETS
Same old #Pompey , awful in the first half and cant catch up in the second . When will he learn , 4-5-1 just isnt working

Another defeat for #pompey cotterill has to go

Was a good #pompey performance just gave away a very poor goal

Didn't sound like today was great but losing at Leeds is hardly a disgrace. Work to be done in 2 week break. #pompey

Another defeat for #Pompey, losing 1-0 to Leeds at Elland Road. Doesn't look like there is enough goals in the side at all.

Genuinely don't care that we lost again today. Cotterball has sucked the fun out of being a #Pompey fan.

on paper, the players we have are better than this, time for a change at the top I'm afraid #Pompey

The club need to start selling half game tickets so we can just turn up at half time. #Pompey

The only thing on cotterill is we haven't had a hiding from anyone. Its always close. I am running out of reasons2 defend him though.#pompey

do we have 1 of the best starting 11's in the league? Yes. Is the manager getting the best out of them? No. #pompey #change

successful managers have/had been with their clubs for years. Chopping & changing too often doesn't work. #pompey

Was amazed today at how slow we look, really no pace in the side. Can't help thinking that lack of speed leads to the lack of tempo. #Pompey

Cotterill blames tiredness for today's #pompey result. Tiredness is a feature-we're all tired of his excuses #rabbitintheheadlights

Strange match today. Players working hard - when they kept the ball down they looked good - didn't keep it down enough! #Pompey

When are #Pompey going to turn up in the first half?! Got to look at cotts for poor teamtalks as it's the same every week! #timeforachange?

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