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Era
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1946-1973
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Season
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1948-49
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Date
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Wed Sep 8, 1948
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Match Type
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First Team
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Competition Sponsor
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Competition
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Football League Division One (D1)
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Match No
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6
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Stage
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League
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Kick Off
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6.30pm
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Venue
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Fratton Park
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Weather
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Fine
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Home Team
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Portsmouth
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Away Team
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Middlesbrough
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Attendance
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33275
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Receipts
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Referee
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H Williams (London)
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Status
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Completed after 90 minutes
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Final Score
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Portsmouth 1-0 Middlesbrough
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Home Scorers
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Reid 87
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Away Scorers
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None
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Home Line Up
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Butler Rookes Ferrier Scoular Flewin Dickinson Harris Barlow Reid Phillips Froggatt
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Away Line Up
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Ugolini Robinson Hepple Gordon Whitaker Blenkinsop Spuhler Dobbie Fenton Dicks Walker
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Match Summary
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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.
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Source
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Portsmouth Champions of England, Farmery C, Desert Island Books (2000)
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Pompeyrama
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Portsmouth 1-0 Middlesbrough
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