Having won the F.A. Cup last season, and with no football happening right now, it seemed a good opportunity to take stock of my Port watching experiences dating back to the last F.A. Cup win in 2009 and come up with the best combined team that I have seen over those years and later […]
I have supported Port since the season of 2010, I watched about half the games that year, some home and some away. I have seen plenty of bizarre, fantastic and unpleasant things occur over the years some of the unpleasant ones have included the farcical floodlights debacle, the Port Authority’s squabble over the ownership […]
Now the season the has finished, it always leads me into remembering the seasons gone by; my Port yesteryears and there is one particular Port experience that comes flooding back me each time and reminds me how much things have changed and developed since my early Thai Port/Singhtarua/Port MTI/Port seasons. Things happened back then […]
After reading on the informative and quite excellent Sandpit site (that should get this posted) of the upcoming Port friendlies and realising that all the forces of the universe had aligned, namely the fantastically well planned, well implemented and fully justifiable elongated break for the Asian Games, which saw Thailand again perform so manfully […]
I wrote a piece for this website which praised, lauded you could say, even go so far as to say worshipped a particular ex-Port legend. (It was Moise and I meant every love-soaked word) It was, however on the gushing side of the teeny-boyband idolization spectrum I’ll admit. So being a deeply repressed Englishman […]
I have followed Thai football on a regular basis since 2010, and I have always struggled with Thai names, making my ability to comment in football conversations on different players I have seen rather troublesome. This often results in me sounding like a first time attendee by describing a player with such uninformed-sounding, cumbersome […]
23 October 2009 was my first Thai Port game. I had previously seen Muangthong United play Chonburi during that season but the striking similarity of image and presentation with Man U really put me off. So when I went to watch the FA Cup final between Thai Port and BEC Tero, I was unattached […]