OzMike
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Not interested in their training ground but did notice a heading for one of the papers articles. United lining up Jurgen Klopp to replace LVG.
Panic stations, they will have 12 managers this season at this rate!
Not interested in their training ground but did notice a heading for one of the papers articles. United lining up Jurgen Klopp to replace LVG.
1. be fair, it's better than what they had before. I believe they used to train on the University playing fields in Southampton or, to be more exact, Eastleigh.
The reality is even funnier and more tinpot.
All the time they were in the Premier League and until relatively recently, they trained at an old school playing field across the road from Eastleigh FC's ground. I used to have to attend press conferences there regularly.
It was technically part of Southampton University, from whom they rented it, but the university still used a plastic pitch for hockey. The Portsmouth players had to stop playing on it if the students needed it. The university's own football pitches and changing rooms about half a mile away were far better, really top-quality. The pitches Portsmouth used were dreadful and regularly waterlogged, the facilities Sunday League standard until they "upgraded" them with a few portakabins. The players' car-park was just a piece of rutted waste ground. We'd always park in Eastleigh's car park.
And the funniest thing of all was that, of course, it was a Saints-supporting area. One day I turned up and the bloke on the gate was a Saints fan I knew who ran a Southampton memorabilia shop in Northam Road, just round the corner from St Mary's. "Anything you want to know, mate?" were his first words. I got lots of decent stories and tips from him.
Never forget...
Good luck to them.
They are finally getting their house in order, and the fans seem to be in charge of things.