Portsmouth boss votes are in - but who made the top 10?

In my latest unscientific, finger-in-the-wind reader poll, I asked for your favourite Pompey manager.

I wasn’t looking for necessarily ‘the best’, but for the one whose time in the Fratton hotseat you remember most fondly.

I’m saving the top three for next week, but for this week, putting on my best Bruno Brookes voice (and because of lockdown I now share his hairstyle again), here’s the countdown from 10 to four.

10 Guy Whittingham – ‘Agent and a legend,’ said Martin Fish.

9 Steve Claridge – ‘Wasn’t given enough time and had them playing football,’ wrote Ben Tooley.

8 Kenny Jackett – ‘Wrong to overlook him given his win percentage over three seasons,’ said John Hodge.

7 Paul Cook – ‘The determination, the antics, the style of football; everything for me – think he was top-notch just a shame he walked out on us,’ argued Tom Clark.

6 Bobby Campbell – ‘Gave us two of the most entertaining seasons (and the third division title) of modern times,’ wrote James Robertson.

5 Frank Burrows – ‘He delivered that historic promotion which signalled the end of the decline of the seventies and the beginning of everything we look back on now, Premier League success and FA Cup,’ recalled David Lewis.

4 Bob Jackson – ‘My dad saw Jackson’s teams from the Boilermaker’s Hump. Jackson’s record speaks for itself – our most successful manager ever,’ said Alan Pryke.

You can probably work out which trio make up the top three. But in which order?

Find out next week!