From The Archive

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 …

  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 features an itinerary from Pompey’s first foray into foreign soil for competitive actio …

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 turn to that perennial favourite: criticism of the referee and some correspondence between …

  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 opened a folder and found a significant fax sent and received in 1993…   What’ …

  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. Today it's a cheque for more than £5,000 from Birmingham City FC, archived after it had been cashe …

This article was initially published in the matchday programme of 26 December 2020.   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, using …