Centenaries


South Stand Centenary

Posted on 30th Jan 2025 by David Taylor

The South Stand will celebrate its Centenary in August 2025.   Designed by Archibald Keir Leitch it was built in just ten weeks in the summer of 1925. Leitch was known as the man that built British football stadiums and in the late 1920s he was …

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Jasper Yeuell - reliable back up

Posted on 24th Jan 2025 by David Taylor

Jasper Yeuell visited Fratton Park in 2000 and gave an interview to Richard Owen the Club Historian. He played only 35 games for Pompey between 1946 and 1952 but he had a key role as the back up to the two Full Backs Harry Ferrier and Phil Rookes, …

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Jimmy Scoular - tough wing half

Posted on 23rd Jan 2025 by David Taylor

  Jimmy Scoular was a footballing volcano, and certainly not of the dormant variety. A fearsomely combative Scot from a flinty mining upbringing, he tackled like a runaway coal wagon and was prone to explosive eruptions of fury, yet he possessed …

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