From The Archive

  Recently the Pompey History Society came into the ownership of a cricket scorecard dating from 4 August 1968. No interest, most would say but the match was between a Pompey XI and a Saints XI and played at the County Ground, Northlands Road, S …

                                                                  There are many links between the Royal Air Force and Portsmouth Football Club but the outstanding one regards one of …

With Vince Hilaire mentioning Noel Blake and his habit of cancelling out Vince's goals with diverting the ball into his own net I decided to trawl the archive to an article I wrote some seventeen years ago. Noel Blake was a much loved Pompey star …

As Pompey prepare for trips to Watford and Bristol City in the next four days the History Society takes you back to 1971 when Easter looked a lot like Christmas 2024 but with a big difference.   Back in those days there was no complaining about …

Every schoolboy should know that Pompey’s most capped international player is the great Jimmy Dickinson having played 48 times for England between May 1949 and November 1956.   Now thanks to some sterling efforts from the Pompey History Societ …

Last week Pompey signed a player from Denmark, Elias Sorensen. Interestingly, our first player from that part of the world was a Swede, Dan Ekner, who played for the first team five times in the 1949-1950 Championship winning season before returnin …

‘Monty’   ‘Monty’, to give him his full title - Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, KG, GCB, DSO, PC, DL - was Pompey’s honorary President from 1944 until his death in 1976.   The Pompey H …

  February 29th only comes around every four years and Pompey look forward to fixtures on Leap year day as throughout their history they have never been beaten on this day.   The story begins back in 1908 in the Southern League days when Swind …

Syd Leverett (left) with League Championship Trophy    Each week the Pompey History Society takes a delve into the club’s archive and pulls out a document or artefact and tells the story behind it. This week we’ve dug out a letter sent in Jun …