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Fri Mar 16, 1962 / Reading 0-3 Pompey

Suave Pompey go ten points clear

 Fri Mar 16, 1962 / Reading 0-3 Pompey

Entity details

Era 1946-1973
Season 1961-62
Date Fri Mar 16, 1962
Match Type First Team
Competition Football League Division Three (D3)
Match No 36
Stage
Kick Off 7.30pm
Venue
Stadium Name Elm Park
Weather
Referee Mr W Crossley (Lancaster)
Opponents
Final Score Reading 0-3 Pompey
Home Scorers -
Home Team Reading
Away Scorers Barton 19, 35 Saunders 68
Away Team Portsmouth
Attendance 22969
Receipts
Status Completed after 90 minutes
Home Line Up Meeson, Walker, High, Travers, Spiers, Evans, Batt, Whitehouse, Allen, Maughan, Wheeler
Away Line Up Beattie, Rutter, Wilson, Brown, Snowdon, Dickinson, Barton, Gordon, Saunders, Blackburn, Dodson
Match Summary Pompey are on a roll and go ten points clear at the top of Division Three after this comfortable Friday night victory at Elm Park. Reading pack in their biggest crowd of the season and the Pompey chimes drown out the home support as their team play some football described by Ken Jones in the Daily Mirror as the best he had seen outside the top six of the First Division. Goals from Tony Barton (2) and Ron Saunders sealed the win but keeper Meeson prevented a cricket score.
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