Heaven's light issue 4 by Official Pompey

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HEAVEN’SLIGHT EDSPACE / WHAT POMPEY MEANS TO ME / OUT OF THE SHADOWS STAKEHOLDER INTERVIEW / JOHNNY MOORE / JOSH BELL / TICKET NEWS

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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, SJ Maskell, Matt Pantling, Pompey Press, The News

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SPRING IS STARTING AND WE ARE NOW ENTERING THE LAST COUPLE OF MONTHS OF THE SEASON, WITH VITAL POINTS TO PLAY FOR ON THE PITCH

} Welcome to the March edition of Heaven’s Light. Spring is starting and we are now entering the last couple of months of the season, with vital points to play for on the pitch. This issue of Heaven’s Light contains an out of the shadows feature on Pompey’s chef, a stakeholder interview with Express FM, one of Johnny Moore’s favourite years, Josh Bell’s column and the latest ticket news. We will also be speaking to another fan to find out what Pompey means to them. If you would like to be in a future edition of Heaven’s Light saying what Pompey means to you, then please feel free to contact me. You can email me on tomwhite@pompeyfc.co.uk and you can also send any comments, ideas or suggestions for our publication to that email address. Yours in Pompey, Tom White Heaven’s Light Editor Guy

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POMPEY MEAN TO ME?

JOSH SWEETMAN, 21, FROM BEDHAMPTON TELLS

TOM WHITE WHAT POMPEY MEANS TO HIM

} Can you tell us a bit about yourself? I had a season ticket for quite a few years sitting in the North Stand Upper, but unfortunately I had to give it up this season as I went travelling to Australia with two of my mates. We went over there mainly for the Ashes and we went to the Test matches in Brisbane, Adelaide, Melbourne and Sydney. I spent three years at the University of Brighton doing a Sport Journalism degree so I thought I’d keep a blog about the trip, and it turned out to be quite popular with nearly 3,000 views.

} What does Pompey mean to you? It means everything to me. Every Saturday I’m looking forward to one thing, and that’s going to the game because I love my club and I’ll always stick by them. The one thing I missed in Australia was the proper match-day experience. It’s a massive culture and it’s all that matters on a Saturday.

} Can you remember when you started supporting Pompey? I’d say I was about five or six when I first started getting interested in Pompey, but it wasn’t until I was a bit older that I went to games. My grandad got me a ticket next to him for a 3-0 win against Barnsley on the last day of the season to stay up. I was hooked straight away and from then on I went to home and away games with him.

} Do you have a highlight from your time supporting the club? There are a few to be honest. Obviously the FA Cup finals are going to be up there, but probably the best game I’ve ever been to was when we beat Manchester United 1-0 at Old Trafford in the quarter-finals of the FA

Cup. That was one of the best days of my life and it still sends shivers down my spine. The FA Cup semi-final against Tottenham and the AC Milan game are also up there. } Do you have any favourite players? There’s nothing I love more than a player that works hard and gives 100 per cent and wears their heart on their sleeve. Linvoy Primus is your perfect example and I would put him up there as my favourite player. He wasn’t the quickest but he read the game so well and knew where to be. You can’t go past Robert Prosinecki because he was so skilful, and I was a huge fan of Svetoslav Todorov. I also liked Sol Campbell and Sylvain Distin because their partnership was so good.

} Do you have any favourite goals? The first one that comes to mind is Matt Taylor against Everton. You knew as soon as it came off his foot that Tim Howard was getting nowhere near it, but I don’t think I’ve actually celebrated a goal so much as when Erik Huseklepp scored that wonder volley against Blackpool.

} How did you feel when the Trust bought the club? I was a bit sceptical at first. It will take a long time to rebuild the club, but the Trust are starting to turn it around. The news about the ground is really good and they’ve made good decisions off the pitch and shown they can make the hard decisions.

} What are your hopes for the future for Pompey? This year is about survival. We need to get a solid foundation at the club and have a year where the rapid freefall stops. Next year we need to be looking at promotion.

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OUT OF TH E

SHADOWS POMPEY CHEF JOHN BROOKS

TA L K S TO S J M A S K E L L

} Head chef John Brooks came to help out at Fratton Park for a couple of days back in July. He’s been operating at the heart – or rather the stomach - of the club ever since. “It was an honour and a privilege to be asked,” he says. John is responsible for feeding the players daily and the hospitality lounges on match days and functions. That’s four kitchens and seven lounges, with all fans wanting to eat in time to see the game, making for high pressure work requiring careful planning. The 33-year-old father of two has left his own business – Saturday Kitchen - in the hands of a manager to work at Fratton Park. With 14 years’ experience since training at the Brookfield Hotel in Emsworth, he arrived at Fratton via Hertfordshire and the New Forest. He has a chef’s passion for food and insists: “You need to know it from seed to plate, to

YOU NEED TO KNOW IT FROM SEED TO PLATE, TO UNDERSTAND IT, TO DO IT JUSTICE

understand it, to do it justice.” He has lived his philosophy, fishing, growing vegetables and keeping chickens himself. His expertise is harnessed by team strength and conditioning coach Louis Langdown. “There is no point training as hard as they do without proper food,” says John. Aware of each player’s individual needs, John provides low-fat, high protein meals, such as chicken and red meat, for recovery and body building at the beginning of the week, moving to a higher proportion of healthy carbs, such as whole grain pasta and replacing red meat with fish, as match-day approaches. Salads and vegetables are plentiful, with stacks of broccoli, highly recommended for athletes as it plays a big role in muscle development. ‘Chef’ creates a relaxed atmosphere in the Chimes Lounge for breakfast and lunch every day. “The players are a good bunch,” he says, defending his food preparations from a very interested Jack Whatmough. “Some are very keen foodies.” Simon Ferry and Ricky Holmes are always asking for tips for cooking. “Everyone is very grounded. It’s like a family, there’s no hierarchy; office staff, directors and the CEO all come down and eat here.” Over his shoulder Alan Knight is tucking into a late breakfast. Eating together is all part of team building, John explains. John is surprised at his own enthusiasm. He played rugby for Portsmouth and never had a high opinion of football before he came to the club. Now he talks as enthusiastically as any fan about recent results, despite never seeing a game. “It’s infectious,” he says. “You come here and it gets under your skin. You just want to give your all. ”

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STAKEHOLDER INTERVIEW CHERYL BUGGY TO M W H ITE I NTE R V I E W S C H E RYL B U G GY, E X P R E S S F M’S STATI O N D I R E CTO R } In terms of challenges, what would you say is Express FM’s biggest right now? This is our fourth season covering Pompey, so it’s been a big commitment for a small radio station, and the challenge has been the finances because it costs us. We have a very strong sense it’s a really important thing to be doing. I think one of the challenges around football is the uncertainty, because planning ahead is important. We tend to be good at getting really good commentators, and then they get poached by somebody else.

} Have you noticed any changes since the fans bought the club? Last year was a bit of a difficult year and we found ourselves as a radio station caught in the middle of stuff, whereas actually we’re just a

platform for people to express themselves and that’s part of our remit to Ofcom. Despite everything that happened last year we were keen for the relationship to continue as we know it offers a valuable service, and of course it gives us listeners. This season has been much easier and the relationship with the club has been good. The club have given us good guests, which is always important, and we’ve been doing the one hour football shows because fans want news every day if they can get it. This season seems to have gone really quickly, which is always a good sign. } Do you think community ownership is the way forward? I think sometime it is the only option, and for the club it was the only option. In terms of radio community radio stations are quite new in the United Kingdom, we’re the sixth to establish

and we’re in our second licence now, but other countries like Australia have had them a long time. I think community ownership is the answer to lots of things. I saw a story about a pub that had been bought by the local community. When people get together they can make amazing things happen, which is exactly what happened with the club. } Has the amount of Pompey listeners grown this season? It died away at the tail end of last season and then it was definitely reinvigorated in the new season. There has been a steady upward curve all season, and we can measure that by hits on the website, interactions, calls, emails, texts and the other independent research we do that shows where our peaks are. The football hours have been strong this season as well, and I think they’re an important link in the chain that holds the matches together. It looks ahead to the next game and back on the last one, and it gives people the chance to express how they’re feeling.

} Have you noticed any particular benefits from being associated with the club? One benefit is it has brought us more listeners. The other benefit is that it serves one of our community remits, which is one of the reasons we exist. We exist to celebrate success, showcase talent, give people a voice and raise aspirations. The takeover by the Trust was a success, and there’s a parallel between a lot of the key focuses of the club and what Express FM is about. There’s a synergy there.

} How are things going at Express FM? It’s a nice place to work and people are there because they want to be there, a bit like being involved with the Trust. We’re on around 100 steady volunteers. Some come, some go, and we do lots of good things with work experience. I think we continue to offer something different and we’ve got a huge range of community projects that we’re getting involved with. We have a very small paid team and we rely heavily on volunteers. I certainly wouldn’t say

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it’s been an easy couple of years but we’re still here and we’re still viable, which is the main thing. } Are you optimistic going forward? It’s a very optimistic team and we’re always planning new things. We need to generate some more income, but we’re holding our own at the moment and there are lots of things we want to do. I think one of the important roles Express FM offers to the city is that we’ve always tried to celebrate good stories and success, and we’ve never run out of stories. If you look for the positive it’s there, and if you want to look for the negative that’s what you’ll see. I don’t think there is enough in the city celebrating the good stuff. I think it’s easy to forget where the football club was 12 months ago and where it is now. We don’t often look back at the amazing journey. This club could easily not be here.

THIS SEASON HAS BEEN MUCH EASIER AND THE RELATIONSHIP WITH THE CLUB HAS BEEN GOOD

} Do you have a highlight and a lowlight from Express FM’s time with the club? There was certainly a bit of a low point last season. The high point was coming through the other end with the Trust buying the club, and we now provide the commentary for the Pompey Player which we hadn’t done before. The other high for me was when we signed the deal to start the commentary four seasons ago. I was doing Cowes week and I remember somebody brought the document across on the hovercraft for me to sign. It felt good to be coming in and offering a local service.

} Is there anything new going forward at Express FM? One of the things I’d like to do is set up a Sports Journalism Academy at Express FM, maybe in association with the club, the university and Highbury College, and train up young commentators. It would be a great thing to offer young people in the city and I think it would be really popular.

} Do you have anything else you would like to add? I’m project director of Shaping the Future of Portsmouth, which is all about developing the city in a positive way for the benefit of everybody. I’d like the readers to have a look at the Shaping the Future of Portsmouth website, shapingportsmouth. co.uk, because that shows some of the positive stuff that’s being done in the city.

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1967/68 } And so it came to pass that August 19, 1967, was that supposedly life-changing day where I would enter Fratton Park for the very first time.

There were other games that bypassed me equally in this initial season, where I can say I was there in spirit, not the alcoholic variety, rather than mind.

For the record I was born on Saturday, January 31, 1959, the morning prior to a 2-1 home defeat against Blackpool, an event I was totally oblivious of for many years. The game not my birth.

It was not till February 1968 on the evening when first division Fulham visited Fratton Park in an FA Cup fourth round replay that football sprang to life. The night I generated from spectator to fan.

Even eight years and six months further forward my abiding memories of the visit of QPR on the opening day of the 67/68 season are at best hazy.

Here, or rather slightly prior to here when memory finally kicks in and my recall of this and many other glorious years kick in.

Contrary to the opinion of some when I recount this the common belief I had already succumbed to alcohol at this tender age is regrettably a myth.

I can remember the immense disappointment on the previous Saturday of my dad and sister going to the first game in London without me, deemed too young.

My hazy memory also destroys another common myth that oneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first ever visit is the defining moment which hooks you in for life.

Further peering through a Havant television shop at the classified football results on the way back from a kick about in the park.

It would be somewhat romantic to say in keeping with many other similar tales that I was gripped from those first moments.

I think I had grasped the fact that a goalless draw meant the teams returned to Fratton Park for a replay and this time my disappointment eroded as it was agreed that night that I should go.

But romanticism is for novels and the hard facts remain though I might have been shaken on that first visit I was far from stirred. Factually the excitement of being among a 23,261 crowd on a balmy Saturday afternoon when summer meant sun and warmth throughout somewhat passed me by. The fact that Ray Pointer scored the very first Pompey goal in my first as a spectator in the 1-1 draw this inaugural afternoon is very much a stat in a record book rather than something derived from memory.

I vividly remember making others laugh on this packed train by innocently declaring what a lot of people must be dead as we passed Kingston Cemetery on the approach to the station. Again I must have spotted this on other journeys but only now had it sprung to life, if you will excuse the pun. So it was on this Tuesday evening that I was to finally discover the purpose of the pylons which tower above each corner of the stadium.

To see them ablaze from the train window and becoming brighter with every advancing step down Goldsmith Avenue into Frogmore Road was still something I recall. I say advancing step, in fact it was more a snail like advance because there would be 50 more than 44,000 this evening. I marvelled at the roadside rosettes in both team’s colours along with the respective scarves on display for sale. Again it registered for the first time through passing it more than once before. Frogmore Road itself was a mass of people where you were totally unable to distinguish between pavement and road. Not that it mattered as no vehicle could possibly turn into it let alone negotiate any way through, there was not a chink in the length or the breadth of the road. Just packed like sardines but never fearing for safety. Inside the orange cinder track took on a new glow under the powerful lights making the grass even more delightful looking and emerald green, and the all royal blue of Pompey that much more magnificent. I can remember every little minute detail down to the fact that manager George Smith was incapacitated and had to keep in touch with the game by phone from his bed. No easy thing I would suppose in days where mobile phones were less likely than the moon being made from cheese. To this day I can recite by memory both team line ups, and remember clearly celebrating an Albert McCann goal for five minutes before being told that it didn’t count because of some strange alien concept called offside. When Mike Trebilcock did break the deadlock I was almost scared to celebrate till I realised this one counted by the sheer delirium around me.

SO IT WAS ON THIS TUESDAY EVENING THAT I WAS TO FINALLY DISCOVER THE PURPOSE OF THE PYLONS WHICH TOWER ABOVE EACH CORNER OF THE STADIUM

And then it was almost over before it began. As Fulham’s Johnny Haynes advanced towards Pompey’s goal there was even more delirium and back smacking, which I didn’t understand till realising the referee had ended the game. Twenty minutes after still in our North Stand seats news broke over the loudspeaker that down the road Southampton had been beaten by West Brom who would now come to Fratton Park in the next round. I hadn’t known this but nobody was visibly or audibly disappointed slightly by the loss of a south coast derby, just elated by events they witnessed here. There was no pre-occupation like today with the fortunes or prospects of other clubs who were totally irrespective unless you played them. From here on I remember clearly goings on at each of the seven remaining games plus the West Brom cup tie. Ray Pointer breaking a leg in the following home game against Birmingham, George Ley scoring a penalty against Middlesbrough at the Milton End, Pompey playing at home to Aston Villa on Good Friday and then heading for Villa Park for the return the next day right through to the last home game where it was Ipswich celebrating on the Fratton Park pitch after winning promotion. Days where I learnt football carried as much despair and disappointment as joy and elation. That opening day against QPR had sewn some seeds, where through subsequent games they were tended and watered. Fulham was where they germinated and bloomed. It was here that I first felt like a football fan, though like one, suffered the emotions of one and was hooked for a lifetime.

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} Be honest, how many of you have activated Blippar on our match-day programme? Moreover, how many of you are even aware of it? Although given a prominent slot in our new digital media strategy, the true success of our unique augmented-reality service has yet to be realised. The concept of Blippar is to bring the written word to life through interactive content such as pictures, videos and sounds – simply by scanning a Blippar-enabled page with your mobile phone. The potential for achieving a successful Blippar campaign is enormous, although the 2013/14 match-day magazines have seen us take gradual steps in delivering digital content to supporters at its fullest capability. Having just a handful of Blippar-enabled pages may appear to be a small proportion, however we are undoubtedly the first of its kind, especially in League Two, to offer video content supplementing our programme. An integral part of this has included providing video highlights of previous matches. Although cynics out there would suggest there have been more lowlights than highlights on the field this season, watching short clips of previous matches just by scanning your programme is unprecedented.

I think it is safe to say that Pompey’s resilience to fend off a late onslaught from AFC Wimbledon will get plenty of views in our next match-day magazine! Nevertheless we are looking to improve this service in the coming months by providing a highlight reel for said fixture’s ‘man of the match’, audio clips for the post-match interviews and an image gallery from that game. Talking of images, an important feature of our Blippar-content is to edit the cover of our match-day magazine with a photo of your choice.

WE ARE UNDOUBTEDLY THE FIRST OF ITS KIND, ESPECIALLY IN LEAGUE TWO, TO OFFER VIDEO CONTENT SUPPLEMENTING OUR PROGRAMME

So now if you wish to replace the likes of Jed Wallace, Simon Ferry and Patrick Agyemang on the cover with an image of friends, family or a cheeky ‘selfie’, our interactive service allows you such an opportunity. Furthermore, allowing users to share ‘their’ covers as well as images from the gallery on Twitter, Facebook and by email ensures were are continuing to extend our social media branches. However, the content does not centre around Pompey entirely.

Therefore, it is with some regret to conclude that a career in the film industry probably doesn’t beckon for our Austrian midfield enforcer. Still, Ertl’s preview alongside our regular ‘Chairman’s Poll’ completes our augmentedreality coverage that aims to improve supporters’ digital media experience on a match-day. The objective is to improve our Blippar strategy as we look to maximise the benefits of such an innovative service for fans.

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