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Englishmen lead the way at Pompey



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Published Date:
14 October 2008
Englishmen currently rule Pompey's league goal charts – and they have done for almost six months.
It has now been 178 days since a non-Englishman last netted for Redknapp's men in the Premier League.

That was way back in April 20, when John Utaka scored against Manchester City at Eastlands.

Pompey have registered nine times in 10 games since that moment – every one of which have come from an Englishman.

Put another way, that's 966 game minutes without an overseas footballer getting on the scoresheet.

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It's an admirable fact for the Blues, whose continuing success is largely being built on an English backbone.

Jermain Defoe and Peter Crouch, invariably, have scored eight of the league goals between them this term, with Glen Johnson grabbing the other.

Redknapp's side had previously failed to net in their final three league matches of last season – losing against Blackburn, Middlesbrough and Fulham.

Next up is a trip to Aston Villa on Saturday – the eighth match of this league season.

And should Defoe and his compatriots dominate the scoring yet again, it would make it five months and 29 days since that last Utaka strike.

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  • Last Updated: 14 October 2008 8:43 AM
  • Source: The News
  • Location: Portsmouth
 
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HarryStotle,

Blackheathstone 14/10/2008 07:21:58
Fascinating stuff. It is also almost a year since someone in Pompey's current squad with the star sign Aquarius and an aunt with the initial 'M' last took a corner. Ah stats. When there's no news, there's always stats.
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Michael S.,

14/10/2008 07:53:27
It was also the last time someone ate something besides curry before the match,they had chinese.The last time 2 non english players scored was when they both went to Mcdonalds across from Fratton park going to the match.Wonder what deodorant they were wearing?.
The only one that has been constant in the scoring has been Jermaine and now Crouch is starting to,keep it up lads.
PLAY UP POMPEY,all of pompey,english or non english you are a team no dividing here.
Write about something good like who cleans up all the rubbish around the ground after every match.
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PompeyWallasey,

Merseyside 14/10/2008 08:53:58
It's terrible during the International break when there's nothing to write about, isn't it?

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Traore's No 1 Fan,

14/10/2008 13:04:21
I loved that article. It just rolled off the tongue. We should nominate it for the most factual article written by Neil Allen in the last 25 minutes.

In fact it has been 25 minutes since Neil Allen last wrote a better article. that is 5 additional minutes over 20 in which Mr Allen has not written a word.

The last factually base report that Mr Allen wrote before this inspirational column was approximately 25 minutes beforehand.

I'm sure there are plenty more ways in which I could tell the same fact over and over again......
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Only blue in Mansfield,

14/10/2008 13:27:05
So we are congratulating the team on the fact that only our strikers can score? All the best teams get goals from midfield - something we are incredibly poor at, this is not good news!
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JIMJENK1977,

14/10/2008 14:26:32
Factually correct article, though deadly dull and totally pointless, what we all really want to know is, are share prices increasing or, has the bank bail out led to a global economic crisis, in which we could all lose our jobs and home, been averted.
Still, how many seconds of football does 996 game minutes equate to???
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Big_John,

14/10/2008 14:57:07
59,760
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phill2935,

14/10/2008 16:04:52
with the hight that we have in our team can anyone explain why we don't score fom corners. We should be so dominant from set pieces but it doesn't happen.
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PompeyFan Canada,

Calgary 14/10/2008 16:49:20
the crosses are too low........sorry phil, I was just so inspired by this article to think of something original!
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