'You're rubbish..magic first half from Portsmouth...worst ref since Tuesday': Portsmouth and Stoke faithfuls

Pompey and Stoke fans have been having their say on Saturday’s events at Fratton Park. Here’s a selection of views from X (formerly Twitter).

You were time-wasting from the 10th minute. You’re absolutely rubbish, rubbish football team silent fans and stadium is rubbish. Up the top of the league potters #SCFC #Pompey @PotterDave_

Stoke fan here - good luck rest of the season. Magic first half. Always enjoyed watching Pompey from the good days. Hope everyone is well. We're flying at the moment and that has shown - top club. Best of luck @racingmadjosh

Pompey and Stoke fans: ‘Rubbish football team...Magic first half...not really sure how we lost’

The Fratton faithful turned up in their numbers on Saturday as Pompey fell to a 2-1 defeat to Stoke City.placeholder image
The Fratton faithful turned up in their numbers on Saturday as Pompey fell to a 2-1 defeat to Stoke City. | Jason Brown

Fair play Stoke fans one of the loudest this season, but only seem to sing about Southampton rather than their own team #pompey @Samalaaarr

I don’t care who but put someone else in goal too many mistakes way too often for Schmid @PompeyHazza9

You can see why we wanted Luke Graham btw. He’s got all the makings of a top player #Pompey #SCFC @ryanhoney9

Apart from Schmid giving them 2 goals, I’m not really sure how we lost that. Should’ve had more goals first half - that’s come back to bite us. Normal service has resumed. Still, if Stoke are top and the best the league has to offer then we’ll definitely be in the playoffs. @84Knight

That’s the worst refereeing performance I’ve seen since Tuesday @d_fferr

The Fratton faithful turned up in their numbers on Saturday as Pompey fell to a 2-1 defeat to Stoke City.placeholder image
The Fratton faithful turned up in their numbers on Saturday as Pompey fell to a 2-1 defeat to Stoke City. | Jason Brown

Weird one today, both teams cancelled each other out well and the team with less errors won. Schmid shocker but the build-up for the first was in-line with me and Johnson was offside,100%. Linos are useless every week, never up with play. Ref just as bad, for both sides! #Pompey @JBDS__

Schmid has cost us 3 points today. Simple as that. Can’t have such a liability in such an important role. @PortsmouthFC_FR

Mate their keeper is actually terrible. @DevonScfc

I’m genuinely not exaggerating, I reckon my dog could’ve done a better job with that. #Pompey @CanadaP14

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