It’s been a hard January for every Pompey fan. With 26 players departing since the start of this season, it’s tough to see a way forward. There has been over 50 players that have pulled on a blues shirt this season, more than any other football league club.
Pompey are coming up to their administration year anniversary – but there is no cause for celebration. The club are sitting second from bottom in League One and have not won a game in one hundred days. The football league have kindly lent the South Coast side a helping hand, by slapping a ten point deduction on them as soon as the club exit administration. Understandably, fans are beginning to prepare for life in League Two.
It’s hard to believe that such a club can decline so rapidly, a club that in recent years has won the FA cup with a team riddled with international footballers. Restricted to signing only free agents and loanees, Portsmouth interim manager Guy Whittingham has an uncertain future ahead of him and one can only feel for such an inexperienced manager that has taken on such a task.
Until ownership is sorted, Portsmouth FC can’t move forward. The results and the table are no longer a Portsmouth fans priority, the priority is existence and Pompey fans will do whatever it takes to save their club.