Obituaries

       Ask any Pompey fan who are the best central defensive partnership they have seen in the modern era some will reply (Noel) Blake and (Billy) Gilbert, younger fans would probably opt for (Sol) Campbell and (Sylvain) Distin but those in the …

The ex-Blues striker, who lived in Denmead, passed away on Friday, September 13 2019, aged 82. He made 78 appearances and scored 16 goals between 1964 and 1968, after joining from Charlton Athletic. The News spoke to Edwards in November 2014 as …

Dave Dodson Dave Dodson Dave Dodson Pompey’s goal scoring winger from the early sixties passed away recently at the age of 84.   Starting his career at Arsenal and being selected for England Youth eight times between 1956 and 1957 Dave moved …

Brian Snowdon passed away recently at the age of 88. He spent four years at Fratton Park and played a key role in Pompey’s winning of the Third Division title in 1962. The centre-half – who spent his National Service with the Royal Air Force …

Mike Barnard obituary Born in Portsmouth on 18 July 1933, the former Portsmouth Grammar Schoolboy was an all-round sportsman and represented both his home city and county in the sports he loved - football and cricket. The youngest of four sons …

Ray Hiron passed away on 5 April 2020 at the age of 76.  Despite that being during the height of the Covid19 pandemic his death was the front page story in the News such was his popularity. Born Raymond Michael Charles Hiron on 22 July 1943 in Go …

Peter Philip Harris, footballer: born Southsea, Hampshire 19 December 1925; played for Portsmouth 1944-59; capped twice by England 1949-54; married; died Hayling Island, Hampshire 2 January 2003. The durable, diamond-bright brilliance of the right-w …

  Gordon Dale was born in Worksop on 28th May 1928 and on leaving school joined his local club Worksop Town. It was there that he was spotted by Chesterfield just fifteen miles away and signed for £500 in February 1948.After time in the Spireite …

Alexander Wilson was born on 29 October 1933 in Buckie in North East Scotland and joined Pompey straight from school. He travelled to Portsmouth in 1949 for a trial and he made his debut, replacing the injured Jimmy Dickinson, at Derby back in Octo …

Cliff Portwood 1937 - 2012 Cliff Portwood yesterday morning (10 January 2012) lost his long battle against a lung complaint, a battle during which he always wore a smile. He passed away in the presence of his family in Basingstoke Hospital, he was …