Today's hat is white with red trim and a rather odd looking feature on the top surrounding the tiny bobble. Perhaps it is of religious or regal significance. Maybe a crown. The football team such a hat represents? Liverpool's away strip in the 1970s perhaps?
Here is a list of Pompey players from down the years with names that are (very!) loosley connected with the clergy, royalty and dignitaries. Read this with the knowledge that my tongue was very firmly in the corner of my mouth when I wrote it!
David Crown
Alan Knight
Arthur Knight
Jeff King
Kevin 'Prince' Boateng
King Kanu
Shirley Abbott
Bob Bishop
Stan Earl
John Friar
David Munks
And here's a picture of King Kenny in the Liverpool away strip back in 1979, taken from the Topical Time Football Book of that year:
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