You Won’t See Southampton Shirts In Portsmouth...

....says Harry Redknapp.

For your information it is highly unlikely you will ever see Portsmouth shirts being worn in the Championship or the Premier League Harry.

 

I beg to differ Mr Redcrapp, Kingsland Block 37 hangs his out on his washing line

 

There's a reason for that Harry, it would be like wearing a DJ when shopping in poundland

 

My husband wore one once and nearly got beaten up! They're not very evolved down there and have a massive chip on their shoulders. He was working in Portsmouth and his boss told him to change before there was trouble

 

I was doing a door-knocking job during our Championship season and was working Portchester. Walked around all day wearing my Saints drawstring bag and asked everyone I spoke to on the door if they knew who was top of the league

Don't know how I didn't get into trouble, was a good day though!

 

I've seen a couple of Saints shirts being worn around the gunwharf. One by some chavvy blonde girl in a big group of chavs, the other by some hard lookin' musher. Don't think you'd see them elsewhere in the 'muff though.

 

If anyone had the audacity to wear anything red &white in Pompey, there would immediately be a petition against it and the council would then ban it.

 

Was at fair at Gunwharf Quay and said to a lady selling football plates, 'Bet you can't sell me the one I want.' Upon being told Saints, she looked to her left and right and brought one out from under the counter. Must be what it's like buying cocaine.

 

On the whole, my general experiences of Portsmouth have invariably been pleasureable. However, there was one time when I was working down there and I broke off midday to pick up a lad from the end of his Uni time. I packed his remaining belongings from his flat in Fratton and all was ok until two of the male locals heard us conversing.Then it was a case of getting out of Pompey quick before something happened. I hadn't experienced such venom in a long time.

 

You rarely see any shirts in Portsmouth, except on people on their way to court.

 

You'll never see mine,went there once didn't like it.

 

When I was a teen, me and a few of my mates rang up our boss on a withheld number at 1am and told him "You've left your Gunwharf keys in Gunwharf Quays!".

 

I was in Portsmouth last Wednesday for my daughter's graduation (three years in Skatesville hasn't had any discernible effect on her luckily - you can take the girl out of Somerset etc) and noticed that the sun had brought out very high numbers of bare torsos of various sizes shapes and indeed sexes judging by the ample breasts on several I pointed out several misspelt tatoos to my wife who thought it was hilarious - she described one as a stereotype of a chav which was perfect. I'm sure that the graduates in their robes must have terrified the locals, as there weren't many near the guildhall thankfully. I think they were scared Voldemort was going to turn up.

 

Voldermort was out playing games on the common with PL

 

Southsea Common I assume you mean, rather than Portsmouth common, which is the whole of the rest of Portsmouth

 

It does seem that they genuinely HATE us ( not all of them to be fair ) .

 

I used to play football in a team which was 100% Pompey. They were a great bunch of lads, even though I teased them mercilessly (it was the early 80s).

 

I used to manage a bar in Vietnam. One evening two hard-looking skinhead lads showed up. Turned out that they were from Leigh Park and were die-hard Pompey. It also happened to be one of their birthdays, so I promised to throw a party for them as long as I could sing a song of my choice while the candles were being lit on the cake. They agreed and so I stood on the table and drunkenly belted out "When I was just a little boy...". They took it very well and we carried on partying.

 

I was in a barbers in Romsey once and the barber through out a punter who was wearing a Pompey shirt. I thought it was a bit OTT at the time as he wasn't causing any trouble or anything. Still, why was he wearing it? Obviously to provoke some reaction, so, he got one.

 

I actually think that barber deserved to go out of business.

Still a good story though.