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‘DERBY DATE SHOWS THAT WE’RE BACK!’

By Chris Dunlavy

SOUTHAMPTON v PORTSMOUTH
Today, Kick-off: Noon
WHEN Regan Poole joined Portsmouth from Lincoln City in the summer of 2023, the prospect of facing arch-rivals Southampton in the league was pretty remote.
A decade earlier, the 2008 FA Cup winners had come within a whisker of financial collapse, tumbling into League Two on a wave of points deductions, court hearings and visits from the bailiffs.
Though disaster was averted and League Two conquered, the comeback had stalled; an eighth-place finish in 2022-23 consigned Pompey to a seventh straight year in the third ti...

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