Following Saturday’s Futsal triumph, Port’s golden shower of trophies continued this week when the Spherical Supremo himself, Jadet, was presented with the T1 Coach of the Year award after guiding Port to an impressive third-place finish. Not only does the award recognise Jadet’s achievement of being the highest-ranked coach in T1, it also recognises […]
The Sandpit has been sitting on the Port transfer story of the winter for the last couple of weeks now, awaiting the nod from those involved to go public. The story hit the Korean media yesterday and has now reached Thailand so here goes (although the club have yet to officially confirm it): Port […]
After watching Port crowned 2018 Futsal champions at the Thai-Japanese Stadium, we piled into a taxi and headed down to the PAT for the second friendly of the pre-season. It was good to see Port team win a trophy but there’s no substitute for real football and we were rewarded with a highly entertaining […]
Port’s pre-season friendly campaign is now well underway, and following last weekend’s defeat to Guus Hiddink’s China U21 side, this Saturday Port face the somewhat less intimidating prospect of a visit from Ratchaburi Mitr Phol FC, aka The Dragons. As well as a chance to pay our respects to Sandpit favourite, the Moustache Cream […]
Now that it’s confirmed that Port won’t be taking part in the 2019 AFC Champions’ League (thanks a lot Buriram, last time I turn out on a Saturday night to support you…), Mme Pang will have revised her plans and is no doubt readying the chequebook and drawing up a shopping list for the […]
The Khlong Thoey hordes descended on Supachalasai last night, with numerous patches of orange & blue in the Buriram end as we lent our support to the Thai champions’ bid to win the double, thus handing Port a place in the AFC Champions’ League qualifying stages. Sadly it was not to be as, on […]
Port went into the 2018 season with the strongest and most expensively-assembled squad in their history, with a top 5 place and a cup run their stated ambitions. The cup runs didn’t really materialise, but a top 3 finish means the season has to be considered as a success over all. It was of […]
As usual, we asked The Sandpit’s contributors to tell us about their highs & lows of 2018, and as usual they delivered, and most were very happy. All apart from one, and we don’t need to tell who that was… Kenny Goodbourn Game of the Season An odd choice given how many winning […]
Time to vote again, this time for the 2018 Goal of the Season! With Port banging in 90 goals in the course of the season, we had a real challenge narrowing it down to the dozen you see here. Fellow Sandpitter Tom Earls spent a very enjoyable morning watching all 90 and creating a […]
The voting is over and the results are in, and we can finally reveal the winner of the 2018 Player of the Year poll! And there’s a new name on the imaginary trophy this year – Port skipper David Rochela won the award in 2016 & 2017, but only finished a distant 5th this […]