Johnny Fever
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- Jan 11, 2010
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Short article today.
You can almost taste the sea salt in League One
Now if those in League One could just tread water for a season, and wait for the good ship Pompey to sink a few more fathoms, football on the South Coast will never have been such fun.
As it is, Plymouth began the campaign by beating Southampton away in front of nearly 22,000 people. Gus Poyet is assembling a team worthy of a new stadium at Brighton next year, while Bournemouth last season defied the steepest odds - including a transfer embargo that reduced them to filling the bench with the assistant coach and a schoolboy - to win promotion under one of the most promising young managers in the business, in Eddie Howe.
Though there remains the lamentable possibility of Portsmouth passing one of these teams on the stairs, there is an unmistakably new saltiness to our maritime football.
You can almost taste the sea salt in League One
Now if those in League One could just tread water for a season, and wait for the good ship Pompey to sink a few more fathoms, football on the South Coast will never have been such fun.
As it is, Plymouth began the campaign by beating Southampton away in front of nearly 22,000 people. Gus Poyet is assembling a team worthy of a new stadium at Brighton next year, while Bournemouth last season defied the steepest odds - including a transfer embargo that reduced them to filling the bench with the assistant coach and a schoolboy - to win promotion under one of the most promising young managers in the business, in Eddie Howe.
Though there remains the lamentable possibility of Portsmouth passing one of these teams on the stairs, there is an unmistakably new saltiness to our maritime football.
