Centenaries
Enjoyed our Peter Harris talk? Now watch the video...
Posted on 12th Feb 2025 by Colin Farmery
The life and times of Pompey record goalscorer Peter Harris, the Portsmouth-born player, who won two league titles and played for England in the 1940s and 1950s, was the subject of a recent society talk. In 1999 Brian Moore, the legendary ITV commen …
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 …
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, …
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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