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Match Facts
Premiership
29th Nov 2003
Fratton Park
Att:20,061
Referee: M Dean (Wirral)
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Leicester City
Walker
Scimeca
Howey
Thatcher
Curtis
Izzet
McKinlay
Stewart
Scowcroft
Bent (90) 59
Ferdinand 31 (81)
subs
Coyne
Hignett (90)
Elliott
Davidson (81)
Gillespie
 
 
Leicester City 2 Pompey 0
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Portsmouth away...guess it'll rain then. And yes it did. Roll on the Pompey village and a roof over the away fans. The rain got worse as the game started and swirled round, but at least it wasn't as bad as last year. The Pompey Wedgewood nutter has swopped his crap horn for a bell this season and the constant ringing is surely grounds for murder?

City were almost unchanged, just Curtis coming in for Impey who's picked up a knock in training, and no Dickov on the bench due to a bad back.

Match Stats
Goals: 2
First goal: 31 mins
Yellow Cards: 6
Red Cards: 0

First Scorer: Ferdinand

 
 
Pompey
Wapenaar
Zivkovic
Foxe (65)
Stefanovic
De Zeeuw
Stone
Sherwood
Smertin
Berger
Sheringham
Ayegbini
subs
Srnicek,
Primus
Taylor (65)
Schemmel
Burton
 

City took the lead after half an hour with a beutiful Sir Les freekick. Not his speciality he wellied it and it took a slight deflection to curl beutifully into the net inf ront of the Pompey kop.

Mr Dean, who seemed to be a Leicester fan for the day not only didn't give them a couple fo penalties, and booked hundreds of them (it wasn't a dirty game at all), then did something that had City fans howling in delight. City kicked the ball out for an injury despite attacking the Pompey goal. Pompey then threw the ball in and started to pass it about instead of giving it back to us. The player realised and picked the ball up to throw it in again and give us the ball back...and the ref gave City a freekick fior hand ball! Sheringham went nutty! Rather rudely we tried to score from it, but Sir Les headed over.

Pompey, with half their team missing, only looked lively at the start of the second half for 15 mins when they put us under constant pressure. Apart fom that they didn't look very good at all.

Walker managed to drop the ball a few times just to give them a chance and to have us tearing our hair out.

We got back on top and another lovely ball floated in from Muzzy Izzet saw Marcus Bent pop up in the bos to poke home in front of the wet City fans.

City fans had the day topped off by seeing Callum Davidson return for the first time this season.

Jingle bells rang out at Fratton Park and back at the Walkers Stadium beamback. But you know what'll happen next...Micky will get Manager of the Month, just in toime for the visit of the Arse. Typical.

3
On target
7
4
Off target
5
14
Fouls
12
4
Corners
11
1
Yellow Cards
5
0
Red Cards
0