By steevc on Skatehive
As a Brit people may expect me to be a football fan, but I only tend to watch games in the big competitions like the World Cup. Until today I had never been to a big match, but I was in Portsmouth for a work meeting and someone suggested we go to see Portsmouth play Ipswich. Portsmouth F.C. (aka Pompey) play at Fratton Park and are in the EFL Championship. They are near the bottom of the table with Ipswich in second place. We needed food, but with the pubs all very busy we ended up in Domino's for some pizza. Then we meet up with the others at the Staggeringly Good Brewery for a quick drink. That is near the ground, but was not too busy. They have a dinosaur theme and my beer was called Short Arms, but Big Ambition (like a t-rex). It was rather nice. We got into the ground not long before kickoff. Luckily we were under cover as it rained a bit. It was a good match. There were various attempts at goals in the first 40 minutes until Pompey scored and the place went wild. The chants are r