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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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Fri Apr 15, 1949
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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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36
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Stage
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League
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Kick Off
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3.00pm
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Venue
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Fratton Park
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Weather
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Not known
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Home Team
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Portsmouth
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Away Team
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Birmingham City
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Attendance
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38456
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Receipts
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Referee
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W Edwards (Yeovil)
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Status
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Completed after 90 minutes
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Final Score
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Portsmouth 3-1 Birmingham City
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Home Scorers
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Reid 52, 55, Clarke 70
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Away Scorers
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Dorman 41
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Home Line Up
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Butler Hindmarsh Ferrier Scoular Flewin Dickinson Harris Reid Clarke Phillips Froggatt
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Away Line Up
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Merrick Green Jennings Badham Duckhouse Ferris Stewart Jordan Dailly Dorman Laing
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Match Summary
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A powerful second half calms nerves after lowly City had pinched the lead with only their 32nd goal in 37 matches. Reid’s header and a typical piledriver turn the game as he atones for an earlier missed sitter. Phillips and Clarke both rattle the bar, before Clarke’s stinging shot settles it.
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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 3-1 Birmingham City
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