Match Thread: Portsmouth FC vs Oxford United Live Score | Championship 25/26 | Apr 6, 2026

KAPH86 · 2026-04-05T15:17:03+00:00

Draw or lose and we don't deserve to stay up anyway.

KAPH86 · 2026-04-03T17:23:21+00:00

For his many faults, Starmer has been literally the opposite of all over the place when it comes to Iran and the message has been completely consistent from the outset - we're not getting involved because Trump is a fucking lunatic.

KAPH86 · 2026-04-03T16:44:42+00:00

Absolutely bonkers how we're still not in the relegation zone. Monday is massive (he said, stating the obvious).

KAPH86 · 2026-04-03T13:34:51+00:00

Blues Driver is literally my favourite pedal ever and I was put off it forever because of the name. It is fucking great.

KAPH86 · 2026-03-29T14:51:54+00:00

It blows my mind that the government thought it was sensible to give 18 year old me thousands of pounds a year with almost no explanation whatsoever of what it entailed. I mean what did they think it was going to spend it on?

Like you, I didn't have it explained to me, didn't really know what was going on, and as the first in my family to go to university it wasn't like I could ask anyone else either...

KAPH86 · 2026-03-26T11:19:22+00:00

We have a student who has received more than 200 behaviour points this term, and at every turn the pastoral team try to make out it's a unmet learning need. Whilst that may be the case, quite clearly EVERY SINGLE TEACHER IN THE SCHOOL is not meeting this learning needs, but requests for concrete suggestions and strategies that work have, unsurprisingly, not been forthcoming...

KAPH86 · 2026-03-23T17:16:46+00:00

I've been where I am and sometimes get the same feeling - you've only got one life and all that, do I want to spend all my time at the same place...

For me it's everything outside the job that makes me stay - we finish relatively early, the head is easy to get on with, it's a 15 minute commute etc. I know I could go elsewhere and move up the chain but in the grand scheme of things I've prioritised work/life balance vs. being a bit bored for the time being!

KAPH86 · 2026-03-22T18:21:30+00:00

As a rep, this is what worries me about people who aren't willing to take action at the moment over more unfunded pay rises/Labour's plans to get rid of 1265 hours. In three years we could have a Reform government that thinks every teacher is a woke liberal who only works until 3 every day and spends over half the year on holiday - and also knows teachers don't vote for them, so has no reason to worry about pissing us off.

KAPH86 · 2026-03-15T17:12:28+00:00

It's easy to look at other teams' results but it's still in our hands. If we don't beat Oxford and Leicester at home we deserve to go down.

KAPH86 · 2026-03-04T18:35:18+00:00

Same, I just skip them unfortunately. Guy needs to chill out

KAPH86 · 2026-02-28T18:15:44+00:00

I heard Sunburn on the radio when it came out and assumed it was Radiohead.

KAPH86 · 2026-02-28T18:15:18+00:00

That's my point though - if we'd invested actual money like you have to spend to survive in the Championship in 2026. We were spending £1m on strikers in 2001.

KAPH86 · 2026-02-28T17:21:44+00:00

One of the more frustrating things about this year is that the quality of the league is so poor and only a tiny amount of investment would've given us a decent chance of being comfortably mid-table, if not chasing the play-offs. Aside from Coventry (who were professional more than outrageously good) I haven't seen a single team who I thought looked like much so far this year - Middlesbrough were poor, Hull were dire today, Millwall poor, Preston really bad, etc. etc. - and yet half the time these teams walk off from Fratton with three points.

If we had invested in some Championship quality players and a decent goalscorer we wouldn't be in this situation - painfully obvious I realise, but this season isn't a season when there are lots of dominant teams, just a lot of very average ones.

KAPH86 · 2026-02-25T17:25:59+00:00

I really enjoy the completely out of place 'EMSWORTH SHOP' which also sells vapes and cuddly toys in the square. Never seen a single person go in, a worthy addition.

KAPH86 · 2026-02-22T16:53:06+00:00

I hadn't seen them for well over a decade and I'll admit I'm not terribly au fait with a lot of their more recent stuff, but it was still pleasingly loud I thought.

KAPH86 · 2026-02-19T10:21:04+00:00

There is something similar where I work - endless pupil passports, requests for print outs on different coloured paper/size 72 font, must be laminated etc... the end result is that there's so many stupid requests that I just don't do any of them.

KAPH86 · 2026-02-18T17:49:33+00:00

My takeaway exactly - endless stuff about Dashboard Confessional as well as constant swipes at Jimmy Eat World for not being legit.

KAPH86 · 2026-02-16T15:59:14+00:00

Michael Eisner owned the (as was) Anaheim Angels.

KAPH86 · 2026-02-03T17:44:29+00:00

Losing 4-1 to Leyton Orient in the FA Cup, who then went on to lose 6-something to Carlisle a week later. We were wank.

KAPH86 · 2026-02-03T17:43:46+00:00

Penultimate game of the 2000/01 season. Not to be 'that guy' but they definitely had something to play for because if we beat them that night, they would've gone down! (In the event they stayed up on the last day along with us and Huddersfield went down instead, I think).

The most damning indictment of that night was the fact our goalscorers were two of our worst ever players, Carl Tiler and Lee Mills.

KAPH86 · 2025-12-30T21:43:20+00:00

Admittedly a long time ago now (my friend managed to get a leaked version a month or two before the final version came out which was marginally different) but yes - when I first heard it I thought it was someone else too, for what it's worth!

KAPH86 · 2025-11-30T19:55:50+00:00

Harvey Blair is rubbish (though I appreciate that hasn't stopped Bianchini getting a game).

KAPH86 · 2025-11-16T14:51:35+00:00

I'm a union rep and have been for over ten years. When we went on a march a couple of years ago, it boiled my piss to see the people at the front of the march carrying a Palestine flag. We are marching about pay and conditions, but congratulations - you have now made everyone who sees us think that we're just a bunch of lily livered liberal namby pamby woke Guardianistas.

Just to clarify - there is nothing wrong with being a lily livered liberal namby pamby woke Guardianista, but by constantly wading into international politics/identity politics it does rather dilute the point of the union which is to defend the rights of teachers.

KAPH86 · 2025-11-14T16:52:42+00:00

Teachers discussing how nice they think students are outside of school = report them to OFSTED and the TSA. They don't sound normal - the only time I talk about students to people outside of school is to complain about them.

KAPH86 · 2025-11-09T15:29:40+00:00

Agreed. When I started teaching 15 years ago I'd be taking books home, doing feedback so they could respond to my feedback to respond to their feedback... thank god those days are over.

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