Play Up Podcast - Portsmouth Football Club Discussion

Its a celebratory Podcast and the penultimate one of this season and what a season its been! Scott is once again joined by Phil and Reece who discuss the vital games that secured Pompey's Championship status for another season. Its a Final Day quiz as well this week, with Scott and Reece being tested on final day games and their efforts probably demonstrate that End of Season games, unless yo...

Pod Host Scott is once again joined by Phil and Reece to dig through the ruins of Pompeys last 3 games and agonise over what may have been due to more last gasp goals. We try to answer the burning questions.  Just why wasn't Derbys keeper sent off? Why wasn't a massive Swede-Serbian known for heading the ball a lot not brought on at Millwall?  Are you a Gareth Evans or a Christian Burges...

Scott is joined this week by Phil, Reece and Tim as we try to pick the bones out of the last 3 games which saw Pompey beat the best team in the league then lose to the worst.  Football eh? Bloody Hell. We discuss what went right, and then what went a bit wrong and Scott is STILL furious with Mousinho over Preston. Our quiz this week is called Play Your Caps Right and we hope you can play along. Fi...

This week Scott Mclachlan is joined by Phil, Reece and a welcome return from Jamie to the pod. The tight win at home to QPR and the dire away game at Luton is reviewed and the word Shocking is used liberally and with good reason. We find out just whose house Atkinson was seen leaving in suspicious circumstances and why Westwood was denied entry to Luton. On more a more serious note the Pompey Supp...

4th in the series of My Pompey Life discussions where I chat to Chief Sports Reporter of the Portsmouth News - Neil Allen Recently clocking up over 1000 games watching Pompey, Neil has seen the massive highs of the Premiership and the FA Cup win and also the massive lows of Pompey dropping down the divisions and almost being liquidated. He chats about Managers, Players and even a few rogue Owners...

Welcome to the latest episode of the Play Up Podcast hosted by Scott Mclachlan and this week assisted by Reece, Tim and all the way from Switzerland, Simon. The baffling loss at Sheffield Utd is discussed, we still can't believe we missed those great chances, but that disappointment is countered by the hardworking win at home vs Cardiff and the 2nd away win of the season at Oxford. Langs inju...

This week we review the last 3 games starting with the horror of West Brom away, the disappointment of Millwall at home ending with the utter boredom of trying to stomach Burnley at Fratton Park. Phil provides the quiz this week and taxes our brains to remember former players by their career history.  Hope you can play along. All the transfer activity from January is discussed and we size up the s...

All of us here at the Play Up Podcast team were saddend by the passing of Alec Lumb at the Boro game on Saturday, our thoughts are with his family and friends at this time.  Play Up Pompey and Rest In Peace Alec. Play Up Podcast - Episode 19 - Pompey Staying Up Ole Ole! In this weeks episode we use the word exasperation a lot, well for the Blackburn loss anyway.  Otherwise we are all very chipper,...

Play Up Podcast - Episode 18 A Happy New Year to everyone and we hope you had a good holiday break. After a slightly extended break for Xmas and New Year we are back to cover all of Pompey's games over the notoriously tricky Xmas period and the team had mixed fortunes with some thumping wins and disappointing losses. Each one of the PUP team cover a game each and we also cover the encouraging...

Play Up Podcast - Episode 17 Your host is joined by Phil, Reece and Jamie to discuss the last 3 games which saw Pompey claim 5 points and their best performance of the season at home to Bristol City. The usual unusual topics, just whose blood did Colby Bishop get during his Op? Which player has a Victorian Adventurers name?  And who did we pick for Player of the Pod this week?  Well it could reall...

What a difference a week makes in Football!  Pompey are off the bottom of the table and their talismanic Striker has returned after heart surgery. Your host - Scott Mclachlan - is joined by Phil and Tim to discuss Pompey's last 3 games which included, finally, a bombastic home win to make that 2 wins in the Championship. Phil updates us from the Annual Pompey Supporters Trust meeting with the...

Pompey relegated already? After a tough week for Pompey, the Play Up gang look back at the last 3 games and try and make sense of the state of the Club. The team is analysed from back to front as we try and make sense of just how and why Pompey are playing so badly and we get some unique insight into just what the Eisners are thinking about how the season could pan out. Is Mousinho jobs safe?  Sho...

Play Up Podcast - Episode 14 - 10/10/24 Scott and the gang are back and this weeks episode tries to make sense of the last 3 games.  Jamie, Tim, Reece and Phil give their verdicts on 2 home points and an away spanking at Stoke. We question everything, from John Mousinho and Rich Hughes to Marlon Pack and wonder if we are up to the challenge that the Championship presents Pompey. When will Pompey g...

Play Up Podcast - Episode 13 - unlucky for some! Host Scott is joined by Jamie, Tim and new talent Phil to discuss West Brom and Burnley defeats and look for positives, do they succeed? Find out the odds on someone unlikely to score against Sheffield Utd, we bemoan the work-in-progress team and look forward to the end of the very very tough games, and into the just very tough games in October.  Wi...

3rd Special Episode of the Play Up Podcast - recorded 19th September 24 Welcome to the 3rd of our special episodes where I interview Pompey Fans and people connected to the club both past and present. Reece Hawkins went to his first game in 2004 and it turned out to be a drama filled game that got him hooked for life! Sporting a big hat a la Westwood, he enjoyed Pompey's Premiership adventure...

Play Up Podcast - Episode 12 This week Scott, Jamie and Reece discuss the last 2 Championship games and decide just how badly we were humped by Sunderland. Deadline day gets covered and we discuss how long it will take for all the new signings to gel, has John Mousino decide that he can't be arsed with the first 7 games and is building a team to have a storming Winter? We also go back in time...

11th Episode of the Play Up Podcast - recorded 20th August 2024 The Play Up Podcast team discuss the first two fixtures of the season which have brought Pompey 2 points and a very decent start to life back in the Championship. We try and unpick the madness that took hold of Kaminski with the Fratton End view giving us insight into the barney that caused it.   We delve also into Roman history to wo...

10th Episode of the Play Up Podcast - recorded 1st August 2024 We're Back! Pompey are back in the Championship and its safe to say that the Play Up Podcast team are bricking it. We discuss the current state of the squad, Bishops dodgy ticker and we bodyshame Usain Bolt as well as looking at those first 4 League games that Pompey will play in August. No-one cares about the League Cup and Pompe...

9th Episode of the Play Up Podcast - recorded May 23rd 2024 Despite technical hitches, illness and post-promotion hangovers we finally bring you the End of Season review of Pompeys most successful league season in 21 years. Scott hosts and is ably assisted by fellow Pompey fans Jamie, Tim and newcomer Reece who definitely brings some gravitas and intelligence to the Pod. We dissect the season and...

2nd Special Episode of the Play Up Podcast - recorded May 8th 2024 Welcome to the 2nd of our special episodes where I interview Pompey Fans and people connected to the club both past and present. Donald Vass has been supporting Pompey for over 20 years and got a season ticket at just the wrong time! Or right time depending on your point of view in 2009 when the wheels completely fell off the Pompe...

7th Episode of the Play Up Podcast - recorded April 12th 2024 Welcome to the 7th Play Up Podcast with host Scott Mclachlan and fellow Pompey Fans Jamie and Tim discussing all things Portsmouth Football Club. In this episode we cover the exciting draw at home to Derby County and the relatively comfortable win at home again vs Shrewsbury with both results, plus a draw for Derby away at Wycombe mid-w...

Special Episode of the Play Up Podcast - recorded April 5th 2024 An unscheduled but no less interesting episode of the Play Up Podcast where we attended the 125th Anniversary Dinner and which also encompassed the relaunch of the Hall Of Fame for 2024. I speak to Alan Knight, Guy Whittingham, John Mousinho, Andy Cullen and John Westwood, with Colin Farmery, who is the Pompey History Society Chair,...

Special Episode of the Play Up Podcast - recorded March 26th 2024 Welcome to what is the first of our special episodes where I interview Pompey Fans and people connected to the club both past and present. Colin Farmery of the Pompey History Society remembers the 1970's seasons where it is fair to say Pompey struggled and eventually ended up in England's lowest professional League but jus...

4th Episode of the Play Up Podcast - recorded March 19th 2024 Welcome to the 4th Play Up Podcast with host Scott Mclachlan and fellow Pompey Fans Jamie and Tim discussing all things Portsmouth Football Club. In this episode we nervously look at Pompey's run-in plus the Promotion and Title chances and how nervous, or not, they make us feel. We also discuss the PST survey results, and reveal wh...

3rd Episode of the Play Up Podcast - recorded Feb 29th 2024 Welcome to the 3rd Play Up Podcast) with host Scott Mclachlan and fellow Pompey Fans Jamie and Tim discussing all things Portsmouth Football Club as they battle technical issues and failing memories. In this episode we celebrate Fab February and look at the March to the Championship and the upcoming fixtures.  A brief flirtation with Play...