A meander through Scrapbook Lane: Part 5
Portsmouth FC Season 1986–1987 and Vince Hilaire has the last laugh as the Blues finally reach the promised land of the 1st Division
Portsmouth FC Season 1986–1987 and Vince Hilaire has the last laugh as the Blues finally reach the promised land of the 1st Division
Welcome to Part 5 of a running series entitled “A Meander Through Scrapbook Lane” and here we focus a little, and sadly only a little, on the promotion season of 1986/87. I say sadly as, despite delving into a scrapbook rabbit hole I am missing at least one, possibly two scrapbooks out of forty seven and one of these equates for a good chunk of this season. Please accept my apologies and if you’ve come here first and without seeing any of my other season by season scrapbook blogs please be assured the others are teeming and bulging with scrapbook cuttings of the time (see links below). There are just a handful of cuttings here, there are an average of 20/30 in each of my other blogs. Please accept my apologies for this one.
Disclaimer — All pictures contained within this blog will be almost certainly from the Portsmouth Evening News and Sports Mail as well as wholly contained within some loved, if dusty, scrapbooks of over 30 year vintage and placed here purely for enjoyment purposes and I hope that this disclaimer meets everyone’s needs. If not, thank you www.portsmouth.co.uk for entertaining this Pritt Stick and scissors wielding young child/spotty teen/tall and gangly late teenager and young adult who should’ve stopped ripping and cutting up newspapers long before he hung up his scissors!
Disclaimer II — This is far from a fully comprehensive review of the season and purely the contents and selected pages from my earliest scrapbooks. I am also a Liverpool fan born of a Manchester United supporting Mother who was born and raised in Portsmouth.
I was nicknamed by my match going pal as “The Cutter” in reference to an Echo and the Bunnymen song and so hence, here are my cuttings.
Disclaimer III — As a cursory glance at any of my blogs will confirm, I write a lot. Here, not so. Pictures speak a thousand words apparently and from the annals of my childhood scrapbooks I think they sound strikingly eloquent on their own and with only minimal intrusion or commentary from me.
So I hope these scraps from my books jog a memory of the match concerned or the era, the city in general or your life at that time.
Human memories are a precious commodity. I hope you enjoy.
Apologies again for the “missing scrapbook” and the chunk this has taken from this particular season, and a promotion one at that, so, if you’ve arrived here without seeing my other blogs, this season is not representative at all of my childhood scrapbooks and I would direct you to the links below for the previous seasons, 1982–1983, 1983–1984, 1984–1985, and 1985–1986.
A meander through Scrapbook Lane: Part I
Portsmouth FC Season 1982–83 and the winning of the Division 3 Championshipmedium.com
A meander through Scrapbook Lane: Part 2
Portsmouth FC Season 1983–1984 and *that* FA Cup Tie in front of 36,000 at Fratton Park and the 90 seconds that changed…medium.com
A meander through Scrapbook Lane: Part 3
Portsmouth FC Season 1984–1985 and Alan Ball’s Blues come tantalisingly close to a return to Division 1.medium.com
A meander through Scrapbook Lane: Part 4
Portsmouth FC Season 1985–86. The arrival of famed striker Mick Channon and the titanic cup ties with Tottenham, Aston…medium.com
