Heaven's light issue 3 by Official Pompey

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Contents 05 Edspace 07 What Pompey Means To Me 09 Out Of The Shadows

11 Stakeholder Interview 14 Johnny Moore 18 Josh Bell 25 Ticket News DESIGN The Graphic Design House, www.tgdh.co.uk Designers Chris Dale, chris@tgdh.co.uk Andrew Sanders, andy@tgdh.co.uk Photography Colin Farmery, Simon Hill, Pompey Press

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} Welcome to the February edition of Heaven’s Light. I hope you all enjoyed the festive season, and hopefully 2014 will be a successful year for Pompey and all of our readers. Richie Barker has now settled in as manager and everybody in the first team squad will be looking to finish this season strongly and see how high the club can finish in the league table. This issue of Heaven’s Light contains an out of the shadows feature on Pompey’s groundsman, a stakeholder interview with Jobsite, one of Johnny Moore’s favourite years, a new column from Josh Bell and the latest ticket news. We also have a new feature about what Pompey means to the fans. Every month we will interview a different supporter to see what the club means to them. We want our publication to engage with the fans, and hopefully interviewing a different fan each month is a good start. Please feel free to email me on tomwhite@ pompeyfc.co.uk if you have any comments, ideas or suggestions for Heaven’s Light. Yours in Pompey,

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Dan Churchley, 26, from Gosport tells Tom White what Pompey means to him } Can you tell us a bit about yourself? I’m an entertainer. I’m working for Brittany Ferries as an entertainment manager, and I run comedy nights throughout Portsmouth and Southampton. I’m also an administrator for the Portsmouth’s Blue Army Facebook page. This is the first time I’ve been based at home for a long time as I’ve been away for about seven years doing various things within the holiday industry. It’s nice to be back and I now get to see a few more games a year than before.

} What does Pompey mean to you? I’m a football fan but it’s definitely an identification thing for me. I spent a lot of time away from home, and one of the things Portsmouth is associated with is the football club. I genuinely feel that I support quite a unique club. It’s a sense of a belonging and it’s a community club.

} Can you remember when you started supporting Pompey? I was probably about 12 so it was later than some of my mates. When I was younger I wasn’t into football. It came later for me.

Leicester away. We had a really good away crowd and we beat them 1-0. That was definitely the best away atmosphere I’ve been with. } Do you have any favourite players? I’m a massive fan of Jack Whatmough and I’d love to see him play more. I’m really impressed with him and I think he’s a brilliant up-and-coming player. I’ve got soft spots for some players. I liked Joel Ward a few years ago and I really liked David Nugent. I was also a massive LuaLua fan.

} Do you have any favourite goals?

It has to be the Glen Johnson goal against Hull in 2008.

} How did you feel when the Trust bought the club? If I’m honest I was sceptical. I had a lot of friends who were vocal on both sides. I sat back a little bit and kept my mouth shut, but I like the way things are going. It’s a completely new structure and it’s going to take a few years to come into effect fully. You’re going to make mistakes along the way but that’s how you develop.

} Do you have a highlight from your time supporting the club?

} What are your hopes for the future for Pompey?

There are a few highlights. Obviously there is the 2008 FA Cup final and the South Coast derbies. The 4-1 win at St Mary’s will always be a stand out, although one of my favourite games I went to was

To stay up this season, and next season I’d like to be in a position where we can push for promotion. I’d love to see us work our way back to the Championship, maybe even higher.

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Shadows Pompey’s groundsman, Steve B a k e r , ta l k s to S u e M a s k e l l a b o u t t h e F r at to n Pa r k p i tc h

} How long does it take to mow the Fratton Park pitch using rotary lawn mowers? Around five hours according to head groundsman Steve Baker. In February 2012 the pitch mowers were in for servicing when the club went into administration. The servicing company wanted payment before releasing them. So Steve had to improvise. Steve said: “The pitch is mowed and watered for two hours before every game; once on the day before along the length of the pitch, again on the day of the game across the width. This gives 27-32mm of grass, protecting it from wear without impeding the zip on the ball.” Steve and his team are still improvising. When he worked under the CSI regime in 2011 the equipment needed to maintain the pitch was to be replaced. The Premier League days had seen nothing but second hand machinery. Administration arrived before the new equipment. Today they are doing metal work in order to use a £28 metal bar and some old brushes to create an attachment for one of the machines to save £1,000.

Yet Steve maintains a high standard of playing surface. Referees and visiting managers score the pitch, and Steve’s score for the first half of the season was 4.4 out of five. The league average is 4.1. Steve has been a Pompey fan since the days of Albie McCann. “I remember standing in the North Lower by the halfway line with my grandad, watching those bandy legs racing past,” he enthused. A picture of the 1971 team is proudly displayed in the groundsman’s cubby-hole office under the South Stand, the Arsenal cup game that year still firmly etched in his memory. He took his time to get to work at Pompey though, coming via jobs at Weymouth, Bournemouth and Portland Prison. It is hard work. After a game it takes two to three days to return the pitch to playing condition; divot replacing and aerating. Training sessions do not help. Steve added: “Richie Barker thinks Fratton Park should be a special place for the players to come to play; training should take place elsewhere.” This, he hinted, is something that is being addressed. It will add greatly to his work but he seems to relish the idea.

Steve maintains a high standard of playing surface

As for improving the pitch, Steve hopes this will happen sooner rather than later. The famous undulations, likened by AC Milan officials to the hind leg of a donkey, hamper proper drainage at the best of times. After three months’ worth of rain in the last three weeks the pitch is suffering. The last drains were laid in 1993. Steve is now concerned that without radical work it will be impossible to maintain his high standards. It needs digging up and laser-grading to create the ideal crowned shape. The constantly breaking down equipment doesn’t help. But, like many a Pompey fan, Steve gives the impression he won’t give up until things come right at Fratton Park.

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stakeholder interview S o ph i e R e l f To m W h i t e i n te r v i e w s S o p h i e R e l f, J o b s i te’ s m a r k eti n g d i r e cto r } You are a local company, so was that one of the reasons why you decided to sponsor Pompey?

} Have you found any particular benefits from being associated with Pompey?

Yes, community, enterprise and innovation are core to our culture. Jobsite is a very successful British business; when we launched in 1995 the total UK internet population was 40,000. That was pretty forward thinking, and we aim to remain forward thinking.

Obviously there is the impact on Jobsite brand awareness and recognition, which was mainly felt when Pompey were in the Premier League. Now both brands are in a different place, but we see a lot of symmetry regarding leadership styles, particularly transparency, shared ownership and innovation. We too are focusing on giving our clients (recruiters) and our consumers (jobseekers) a voice so that they can help to shape our business going forward. This is a brave move, because of course clients and consumers can be critical, just as fans can be. But the best communities respond to criticism by using it to innovate and improve; that’s what we are doing at Jobsite.

} Have you noticed any changes since the fans bought the club? Yes, the fans owning the club has impacted the way that Pompey is viewed. It’s a transparent form of management, one that we echo at Jobsite. There is a positive feel around the club and there is more stability. Fans can look to the future rather than worrying about going out of business.

finance, such as mid-office banking roles e.g. risk analysts. Usually this signals the start of an economic recovery, but what changed in the last recession is that all employers reduced permanent PAYE hires. This means that the money that used to be in recruitment advertising diminished. We don’t see that changing back. We need to continue to deliver good quality candidates for our recruiters and simplify recruitment for them. } I know you’ve been doing a lot of work at Jobsite as fans have noticed the new adverts in the programme, so can you tell us about the new styles and campaigns you’ve been doing? I was appointed as Jobsite Marketing Director in May last year having held senior online positions since 2001. I am and always have been a big fan of Jobsite, but I could see that the culture of innovation and forward thinking, and knowledge of recruitment advertising, was not being publicised and I

} How are things going at Jobsite?

We are starting to see growth in hiring demand in certain sectors, the main one being

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needed to change that. One of the first things that I did was encourage the design team to take time out and tell Jobsite’s story. Then I gave them control of creative and the brand, because it’s their heart. That’s why the fans have noticed a change. } Are there any new projects at Jobsite? The general theme of Jobsite is ‘real jobs for real people’. By parodying the BBC’s Apprentice through Jobsite Advantage (#theAdvantage) we have shown the difference between real jobs and reality TV. By giving voice to recruiters who can talk about how to get a job, and jobseekers so that they can ask how to get a job, we can facilitate ‘real’ advice. Our main channel will be YouTube.com/ JobsiteUK because film is the best media to learn from.

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} Are many of your employees Pompey fans and what would you say about the fans? Our employees are a pretty even 50/50 split of Southampton and Pompey fans. Pompey fans are known as some of the best in the Football League. This is due to the large away following they have and the noise at home games. The fans are very loyal and had a great sense of humour through the darker times.

} Do you have a highlight so far from your time sponsoring Pompey? There are a range of highlights. One of our employees got to play at Fratton Park in a charity tournament, which was a nice personal experience of dreams coming true. Other employees enjoyed reaching the FA Cup final in 2010 and the two visits to Wembley that season.

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1979 } 1979 may not seem an age away from 1974 – the year I reminisced over in the last edition. But consider for a moment. Five years is actually a full secondary school education span in which time you enter through the gates complete with squeaky voice and fresh complexion and exit in deep baritone, sporting bum fluff and an array of spots. For me a journey from a 14-year-old teenager in the midst of secondary school life through to the threshold of a 20-year-old struggling to make his way in the big wide world. A journey involving transit through the security of school to the pain of the unemployment queue, resulting in a thoroughly miserable span of life where football and alcohol were pretty much my two objectives – not always in that order. In that same time frame Pompey had slid down the divisional pyramid and come the dawning of 79 were halfway through their first ever term in the basement league. So yes 1979 as opposed to 1974 was in such respects a lifetime where a kid became an adult and consequently a very different person who watched a very different football team. It was also a year of history in the making with a lady named Margret Thatcher becoming Britain’s first female Prime Minister, taking over from a beleaguered Labour government which ironically had taken over in that winter of discontent in 1974 that I previously wrote about.

Weekends and football stopped being a part of my everyday life and instead provided a welcome break from the drudgery of an otherwise aimless week. But it definitely helped that after 12 years of supporting a team in either mid-table mediocrity or lower-table crisis I was for the first time able to back one that won more than they lost and who at last took off on promotion charges. After an ultimately failed promotion bid first time round the second half of 79 saw a second season in the basement offering the extended opportunity to visit northern outposts you would have never dreamt of stepping foot in, other than for the lure of football. Indeed names you possibly wouldn’t have been acquainted with at all unless you persevered with the classified English football results to the point where James Alexander Gordon reached the dregs of Rochdale, Halifax, Scunthorpe, Hartlepool and Darlington. Yet it was another kind of journey I encountered which was probably in the long term going to be the making of me having barely ventured north of London up to this point. Fascinatingly these days there was still very much a vast north-south divide and as soon as you crossed it you stuck out like a sore thumb. I can vividly recall a group of us turning up in a Rochdale pub where aged men were sitting in a snug in flat caps playing dominos. It really was that stereotypical, and the beer really was cheaper.

Possessing what most in those parts perceived as a cockney accent, the local insular inhabitants looked on you with a mixture of curiosity, fascination or displeasure, and the equally insular aliens viewed the home spun dialect with equal amusement and bewilderment. Before this time I had only learnt about this parallel world in dramas on television or from books, so travelling north really was an eye-opening adventure where you really experienced how the other half lived. A simple individual age before every high street contained identical shops, fast food outlets and theme pubs but held their own unique character, in an age when northerners lived up north and southerners lived down south. Simplicity itself. It was much the same in the other northern outposts yet quintessentially Darlington differed from Halifax or from Hartlepool, each embodying their own unique traits and characters. For someone not yet working these away days were funded by special train offers where if you collected so many tops of Persil packets two of you went for a ridiculous price. Martin Fooks, who many from my generation grew up with, began to run private trains which became legendary and equally cheap, always stopping off on the way back at Winchester or Fareham to pick up Sports Mail’s and Kentucky Fried Chicken. And then there were the mini buses and coaches from Havant or Leigh Park where you all chipped in to help each other and got back sometime as the birds were beginning to clear their throats on the Sunday morning. With beer still less than 50 pence a pint, and that was

Weekends and football stopped being a part of my everyday life and instead provided a welcome break from the drudgery of an otherwise aimless week back down south, you somehow managed to get through the entire weekend well travelled and equally well oiled. This wasn’t just about football, it was a social adventure with your mates in yet unexplored places far from your natural habitat from which you took back many stories – some more fabricated than others. It did something else too. It made you appreciate home far more than you probably ever had before. On the football side losing only five league games up to Christmas and scoring 55 goals in the second half of 1979 made it personally my most exciting season thus far, with the away days the real icing on the cake. After 12 years of possibly being able to count the away wins I’d seen on less than two hands you suddenly travelled with massive expectation. Of course this was also the end of an era. A slight slump in the second half of the season occurred as the 80’s emerged, but that only led to a memorable final day at Northampton on the final weekend of the season when Pompey’s 2-0 win coupled with Bradford City’s loss at Peterborough resulted in my first ever witnessed promotion. That is another story. For the important point from 1979 and the 79-80 season as a whole was more than just success. It was one where I flexed my wings, migrated to the other ends of the country, had my eyes opened and finally begun to find myself. With the 70’s now history we were thus entrenched in Thatcher’s 80’s Britain. A time where I finally moved forward and began to bridge the gap between school and the real world for the very first time.

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P l a y er } The offices at Fratton Park have undergone numerous changes since the spring of 2013, which saw the supporters wrestle back control of the club. One noticeable transformation, aside from new players, new season ticket prices and three new kits (you get the picture) was the change in website which was implemented in June 2013. The new website consists of additional, new features aimed at captivating visitors (the vast majority of whom are fans) to the club’s webpages. One of which is Pompey Player, the club’s new video channel, an element of all official websites under the Football League interactive umbrella. The minimum requirement for the Player service is to offer supporters live radio commentary along with extended match highlights, yet as part of the club’s new digital philosophy we wanted to offer something more. Aside from listening to Dan Windle and Dave ‘Bunky’ Bowers every Saturday or catching up on our latest win (trust me, there have been some) we wanted to provide fans with a service worth their subscription fee. By acknowledging the vastness of our target audience (Pompey fans come in all shapes, sizes and ages), we have aimed to deliver a service catered for every subscriber.

For instance, Soccer AM’s look behind-thescenes at Fratton Park titled ‘Inside Pompey’, proved to be a huge hit with supporters and each of the six episodes were posted on our club Player. For many, Soccer AM continues to be a constant in living rooms on a Saturday morning, but broadcasting each episode on Pompey Player allowed supporters the opportunity to catch up without the hefty Sky Sports fees. Soccer AM’s trip to PO4 also saw the Blues squad take part in the hugely popular ‘Crossbar Challenge’, which can also still be viewed on Pompey Player, although whether skipper Johnny

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Ertl wants to watch his attempt again remains uncertain. While ‘Inside Pompey’ may enthral a large quantity of subscribers, our exclusive feature ‘Blue Bloods’ with ex-Pompey stars, hosted by Supporters Liaison Officer and chief Player interviewer Johnny Moore, may well specifically captivate those who wish to celebrate a bygone era. Interviews with Ray Crawford, Linvoy Primus and Alan Knight certainly whet the appetite, yet undoubtedly our half-hour feature with Alan McLoughlin has proved to be the most evocative piece to date.

Ferry has since paid the price for his mischievousness after catching a spate of hiccups during an exclusive interview away to Oxford this month, which we of course uploaded. This may appear to be a glorified plug to increase subscribers, but Player is just part of Portsmouth Football Club’s digital overhaul which has grown momentum ever since that glorious spring of 2013. This is perhaps typified by our new Blippar match-day programme, featuring augmentedreality content, Qikserve and the reappearance of our YouTube channel, ignored in the midst of our bleak 2012/13 campaign.

The Blues’ first team coach talked at length about his nine-and-a-half year playing career at Fratton, recounting tales from Pompey’s 1992 FA Cup run and play-off heartbreak a year later along the way. Yet there were elements of sadness to his story and hearing ‘Macca’ describe Portsmouth Football Club as ‘his medicine’ during his battles with ill health was certainly a lump in the throat moment. Macca’s tale undoubtedly succeeded in bringing subscribers closer to the club, and another way we have attempted to do so is by incorporating humour into our pieces. Our ‘Bin it to Win it’ series proved a huge success, while where else would you see Danny East interrupted mid-interview by chief troublemaker Simon Ferry?

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