There is a tendency when teams at the top of the table lose to less fancied opposition for the reporting to focus on the failures of the title chasers and ignore the efforts of the victor. Well, strap in because this report won’t be breaking with tradition. This was a defeat purely of Port’s […]
The best and brightest over at League HQ finally got round to publishing the remaining fixtures, for this seemingly endless season. Highlights include, back to back home games against Buriram in mid-January, with a Wednesday last 16 FA Cup game followed by a league fixture on Saturday. A potential “title decider” when the current top two meet […]
The draw for the last 16 of the Chang FA Cup was made earlier this afternoon, with Port landing a home tie vs. Buriram. With the former serial winners (of everything) from Isan well off the pace in the league and the League Cup having a fallow year, due to COVID, the FA Cup […]
The billing had this as a Champions League decider, second vs. third in a slugfest, as the division’s two most prolific sides met to decide who would bag a place in the group stage. Except it didn’t work out that way, if the expectations were for Hagler v Hearns, what we got was something […]
Whilst the Sandpit is back, we’re not quite fully up to speed yet getting stories off the production line. So we’re a little late with some sad news that recently emerged from Port. Hero of Klong Toei and one of the nicest blokes you’ll ever meet, Josimar has left the club. In a sport that […]
Port continue their FA Cup defence with a home tie against MOF Customs United on Sunday at 6 pm. With the opposition being from the second tier, l was off to the wonderful world of Wikipedia, Transfermkt and the roulette wheel of Thai club website and Facebook pages. Which couldn’t be better summed up […]
If you’re going to come out of hibernation, it might as well be for a good reason and they don’t come much bigger in Thai football than the slum v scum derby. Just shy of eight months after it was originally scheduled to take place (thanks in part to a further delay beyond COVID, […]
Frankly it couldn’t have been scripted better, we won the biggest preseason prize on offer (Champions’ Cup? Never heard of it). Beating bitter cross-town rivals, having come from a goal down, thanks to an injury time winner scored by their former goal scoring hero. The evening started like a lazy metaphor for Ports […]
The second half of the season begins with Port in somewhat of a slump. Having gone into the Buriram match top of the table and for the first time feeling like we did so not as underdogs but as genuine rivals to the champions, we have twice been undone by well organised teams that […]
Port return to action on Sunday after a brief hiatus for the Royal ascension, with a growing sense amongst Thai football that the next coronation the kingdom witnesses could take place in Klongtoei. As much as that opening line got in due to lack of a superior alternative, there comes a point where we […]