Pride of the south.

I have been a Pompey fan all my life; I’ve seen the ups and I’ve seen the many downs. The greatest moment in the clubs history that I’ve been alive to witness would have to be winning the FA Cup last season. Sadly, I was unable to attend Portsmouth’s first appearance in a cup final since 1939 due to it being my girlfriends 18th birthday. I truly believe that if I chose Portsmouth Football Club over her we would not be together now. The fact that Portsmouth are in the Premier League is an achievement compared to the times when they were flirting with relegation in the old Division One only a few years ago.

At the start of this season, there were high expectations. Harry Redknapp was in charge, the club was witnessing its first season in Europe and the key players were happy. However, the clubs finances and members of the board were unstable. Now sixteen games in, Harry has gone to Tottenham, the club is out of Europe due to a recent 3-2 defeat to Wolfsburg and star players such as Jermain Defoe and Lassana Diarra may move on in January. To make things worse, the club is now up for sale and £35 million in debt.

Now in an era where foreign billionaires buy football clubs and invest millions of pounds into the club I honestly would like that to happen to Portsmouth. I know many people would disagree with me and believe that it ruins the game but if the opportunity arrived for it to happen to their club, they would snap at the chance. Admittedly, Manchester City are being stupid by attempting to buy players like Kaka and Torres just because they can offer them high wages but if clubs are sensible with the money I can’t see the problem it if ensures the safety to English clubs.

Ronaldo joins legendary list.

Was it really a surprise that the Manchester United winger won the European footballer of the year award? No, not really.

However, when I mentioned the fact that Ronaldo had won the trophy to my girlfriend’s dad he could not believe it. Being a Liverpool fan, he was certain the award should have gone to Fernando Torres. We argued for half an hour and in the end decided to call a truce agreeing that the pair of them had lit the Premier League alight last season.

Ronaldo was tipped to win the award after the Champions League final in May and I for one thought that he was a dead cert to win the famous Ballon d'Or trophy. After scoring 42 goals in a season where Manchester United won the Premier League title and the Champion League, it would have been an insult if the Portuguese man didn’t win it.

Because of Ronaldo's defining role in United's double winning season 77 of the 96 journalists on the Ballon d'Or panel voted for him as their number one player, earning 446 points from a maximum 480.

In this famous season for United, Ronaldo became the fifth player ever to score more than 30 goals in a single Premier League season and the first winger to win the Golden Shoe.

By winning the trophy, he became the third Portuguese player to do so - after Eusebio and Luis Figo and joined fellow Manchester United greats Dennis Law, George Best and Bobby Charlton. He also joins legends such as Michel Platini, Marco Van Basten, Johan Cruyff and Zinedine Zidane.

Lionel Messi came second and Liverpool’s Fernando Torres came third.

What was Drogba doing?

It wasn't until I arrived at uni this morning that actually I found out the Chelsea score, reason being I was too busy playing football myself at 9:05 last night. I had mixed emotions, one being surprise and the other very annoyed as it meant I lost my football accumulator. For those of you that are unaware of what a football accumulator is, it is a slip which can consist of as many matches as you want and you pick who you think will win. The more teams you pick to win the more the odds accumulate resulting in more money. Due to Chelsea losing, I missed winning £40!

It wasn't until I got home, soaked I may add as it was pouring down with rain the whole way, that I found out more about the game itself by switching on Sky Sports News. However, the headline was not what I was expecting. The headline read, "F.A launches Drogba probe". My first instinct was that he had made a reckless tackle or he had performed an inappropriate celebration after his goal. However, when the reporters continued with the story I was shocked to actually realise what he had done. In a statement issued on the club's website, Drogba said: "I tried to celebrate the goal and I received some things at me" "The big mistake I did was to throw it back so if someone was hurt I just want to apologise for it". To sum up what happened, he made a single fingered hand gesture before throwing a coin back into the Burnley section of the crowd.

He earns £100,000 a week, is idolised by youngsters around the world and then behaves like that, it's disgusting! There were no reports of any spectators being injured however if it had hit a young child then what would he have done?! Players each week get stick from the opposition supporters but you don't see them acting like that.

Since the incident, both the police and the FA have announced that he will face charges.

Arsenal's kids shine.

Arsenal's youngsters knocked Premier League rivals Wigan out of the Carling Cup with a 3-0 win at the Emirates. Jay Simpson's brace and Carlos Vela ensured Arsenal's passage into the next round.

The attacking threat from Arsenal was clear from only the twelth minute when Jack Wilkshire put Carlos Vela bursting into the box. He attempted to round Kirkland however the Wigan keeper got a hand to it.

The pressure continued throughout the hlaf and just before the break Simpson scored his first for the club in his first competitive appearance. Not long into the second half Simpson got his and Arsenal's second and only three minutes later Vela completed the scoring.

The average age of the starting eleven was only nineteen but from the start they tore Wigan apart. Goal keeper Lukasz Fabianski was the oldest player in the team aged only 23!

Wenger said, "It was a big test for such a young team. Many players were under 18 tonight and we stood up to the test and got a remarkable combination of desire, energy and quality."

If Arsenal carry on churning out talented players like they are doing now who know's how good they could be in years t come. Watch this space . . . . . . . . . . . .

Tottenham gelling or Harry genius?

The gaffer???? Harry Redknapp has earned Tottenham Hotspur seven points out of a possible nine in his first three games in charge after his move from south coast side Portsmouth, making the clubs points tally of the season to nine and lifting them off the foot of the table. It happens whenever a new manager joins a club, a team that is near the bottom of the league plays terrible for one manager however the same players manage to play superbly for another. It happened when Curbishley joined West Ham and it's now happening with Redknapp at Tottenham. He arrived at White Hart Lane when Tottenham were up against Bolton, three points were gained. Then Spurs travelled to The Emirates where he orchestrated a spectacular comeback as Spurs drew with bitter rivals 4 - 4 and on Saturday he managed to encourage his side to come from a goal down against league leaders Liverpool.

The players???? David Bentley wasn't even worthy of a place in the starting eleven when Ramos was at the helm but now Mr Redknapp is in charge he is a new player, scoring one of the best goals seen in the Premiership, and is proving to his critics that he was worth the money spent on him during the summer. Similarly with Pavlyuchenko, he couldn't hit a barn door with a banjo under Ramos scoring only once. However under Harry he has put in performances that made him stand out so much at the Euro's scoring two in three. Gomes is still a bit worrying however it looks good for Spurs fans at the minute especially as King is managing to stay injury free.

Are Tottenhams change in fortunes due to the squad finally gelling together or the magic of Redknapp?