So many Portsmouth managers, but who bosses it for you?

So how should we approach this strange period in which ‘the next game’ is a long way away and we have no new results or league tables to digest?

Well, unlike Brenda from Bristol, I like a poll.

And this seems as good a time as any to launch a new one for you lot to get involved in.

In past Sports Mail and programme columns I’ve gathered your votes for your favourite PFC keeper, defenders, midfielders and strikers; your fave Pompey game, away match, goal and your top-rated Fratton Park pie!

Actually, I haven’t done that last one yet but don’t rule out that taking up some column inches very soon.

Now, though, it’s time to vote for your favourite Pompey manager.

And even if I say so myself, this one and the votes and accompanying comments it throws up will be quite intriguing.

My own Pompey-watching career takes in an extraordinary number of managers, some of whom have been, well, extraordinary.

The list of bosses I can choose from is: Frank Burrows, Bobby Campbell, Alan Ball, John Gregory, Tony Barton, Jim Smith, Terry Fenwick, Tony Pulis, Steve Claridge, Graham Rix, Harry Redknapp, Velimir Zajec, Alain Perrin, Tony Adams, Paul Hart, Avram Grant, Steve Cotterill, Michael Appleton, Guy Whittingham, Andy Awford, Richie Barker, Paul Cook and Kenny Jackett.

Twenty-three bosses from 39 seasons of watching PFC.

Others who have been traipsing to Fratton Park longer than I have will of course have more to choose from and it will be interesting to see if any older readers send in votes for managers of longer-ago days.

Maybe there will be a well-deserved vote or two for Jack Tinn or Bob Jackson.

My own shortlist would contain four names, and three are bosses who have overseen promotion-winning teams.

That trio would be Campbell, Ball and Redknapp, but I’d also add Smith to my shortlist.

Campbell was manager for two of the first three years I was present at Pompey games – and because I was aged 12 to 14 during his tenure, his players and teams made a lasting impression, one built upon by Ball’s teams of the four years that followed.

Redknapp remains a divisive figure among the fan base and I don’t think for one minute he’ll win this vote.

But I still say he gave us success and entertainment levels for a good portion of the first decade of the 2000s that no other manager could have done at that time.

Claridge and Cook can count themselves unfortunate not to be on my shortlist, as can Whittingham and Awford.

In different ways I look back fondly on their efforts in the ho tseat, though in the case of three of them I’ll admit that opinion is partly shaped by what went before in their playing days here.

I will reveal the result of the vote at the end of the season in a countdown style that would benefit from the Pick of the Pops theme being played and a voiceover from Tony Blackburn.

Simply email a vote to [email protected] or tweet @stevebone1.

Tell me who your favourite Pompey manager is and, in a nutshell, why.