Portsmouth 7 Reading 4.
How can you analyse a game like that? I’d run out space just listing the goal scorers. Instead I’ll detail the small bits and how I listened to the game.
I’d been helping out in the garden at my children’s school until around 3 when one of the teachers went to leave in the card. She is a ST holder and lives very close to the ground. She reported that we’d just conceeded. By the time I got home it was 2-0 and the BBC Berkshire commentary recorded how we were being totally overrun, picking out Murty and Gunnarsson as the major problems. I then heard we got one back, but no one was sure who had got it - if Rosenior’s shot had crossed the line it was his, otherwise Hunt had got the followup (it was Rosenior’s goal)
Second half and I was still listening to BBC Berkshire. 2-2 through a howler from David James, 3-2 to Portmouth, then a penalty. Astonishing game. Shorey missed it and then it all went completely and utterly wrong. I think I stopped listening at about 5-2. I mean, how can you lose track of the number of goals scored in a game.
I put the telly and watched the equivalent of people reading out teletext for you, Sky Sport’s Soccer Saturday. Chris Kamara was going mental reporting on the game. Every so often, they report “There’s been another goal at Fratten Park!” and I’d think, we’ll 5-3 or 6-4 wouldn’t be so bad, but the goals kept coming. In the end 7-4, the highest aggregate Premiership game ever.
Later on I watched Match of the Day, and we were on first. How I wished we were the last game like usual.
You can’t analyse that except to say that whatever the question is, Gunarsson is not the answer.
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