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6 / Wed Sep 8, 1948 / League / Football League Division One (D1) / Portsmouth 1-0 Middlesbrough

6 /  Wed Sep 8, 1948 / League / Football League Division One (D1) / Portsmouth 1-0 Middlesbrough

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Era 1946-1973
Season 1948-49
Date Wed Sep 8, 1948
Match Type First Team
Competition Sponsor
Competition Football League Division One (D1)
Match No 6
Stage League
Kick Off 6.30pm
Venue Fratton Park
Weather Fine
Home Team Portsmouth
Away Team Middlesbrough
Attendance 33275
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Referee H Williams (London)
Status Completed after 90 minutes
Final Score Portsmouth 1-0 Middlesbrough
Home Scorers Reid 87
Away Scorers None
Home Line Up Butler Rookes Ferrier Scoular Flewin Dickinson Harris Barlow Reid Phillips Froggatt
Away Line Up Ugolini Robinson Hepple Gordon Whitaker Blenkinsop Spuhler Dobbie Fenton Dicks Walker
Match Summary Boro battle after a 1-6 loss at Preston, but Reid pinches it, finishing a move started by Dickinson. Just beforehand Spuhler’s header grazed a post as ponderous Pompey failed to clear. The attack needs more ‘snap’ if the team is to be a force concluded ‘Ranger’ in the Evening News.
Source Portsmouth Champions of England, Farmery C, Desert Island Books (2000)
Pompeyrama Portsmouth 1-0 Middlesbrough
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