Unusually for me, I'm not attempting to mock them. I'm just saying that 8,000 is no big deal for a bunch of cheap tickets at a club that has been in the Premier League in the last three years and is feeling optimistic about their future for the first time in several seasons.
It is the point. Pompey have tasted the big time in very recent memory, whereas we went from one of football's lowest points, attendance wise (1980s), straight into a 1990s on-field slump which it took us almost twenty years to recover from. Pompey's being in the Premier League would have...