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BBC News
03-05-2025
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'Everyone can be proud'
Portsmouth boss John Mousinho has said that everyone at the club "can be proud" after a successful season in the Championship.A draw against Hull City on Saturday marked the end of their first season back in the second tier since 2012. In his first full season in management, Mousinho won the league One title, and in the second, his side secured a 16th placed finish in the were confirmed as safe with two games to spare, and ended the season with some strong results. "It was important to stay unbeaten towards the back end of the season and five unbeaten is a good return." Mousinho told BBC Radio Solent. "The performance today was awful for 20 minutes but I guess some of it can be expected."The progress this season is a really good sign of where we are as a club and a fantastic achievement - everyone can be very proud of what we have done."But football doesn't wait for anyone, we have to go again, but for now we can take a break from the relentlessness."
BBC News
19-04-2025
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- BBC News
Blades 'alive and kicking' after Cardiff win
Sheffield United are "alive and kicking" according to manager Chris Wilder after getting back to winning 2-0 success over Cardiff City ended a run of three successive defeats, which saw the Blades fall from first to third in the are now outsiders in the battle for the two automatic promotion spots given they are five points behind Leeds United and Burnley with only three games they must avoid defeat away to the Clarets on Monday (17:30 BST) to keep their hopes for Wilder, the taste of victory was much needed after those three losses in eight days. "We had to take care of business from our point of view, a really emotionally draining week for everybody, the players and the supporters," he said."I have got to say, I thought the supporters were outstanding in trying to raise us and give us energy."In my experience as a player, a coach or manager, I have had little periods where you lose games and sometimes the hardest thing is getting that first one over the line. We have done that."We needed a performance. The performance was OK and the result is a big result obviously which keeps us alive and kicking."
BBC News
03-04-2025
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- BBC News
Pompey have 'deserved more' on the road
John Mousinho feels Pompey have deserved more points for their efforts on the road this season and hopes they can prove it in the final weeks of the Blues have lost nine of their past 10 games on their travels and taken only 10 points from 19 away games all season long - 23rd overall in the sit five points clear of the drop-zone ahead of a trip to Millwall on Saturday (15:00 BST) and visit Coventry, Norwich and Sheffield Wednesday before the end of the season, with three games at Fratton Park."I've felt we've definitely been in games," Mousinho told BBC Radio Solent. "If I cast my mind back I think we deserved to probably win the game at Sheffield United, not just draw it, but we ended up losing."We beat Oxford, then we had the disappointment at Preston. That was probably the culmination of going 'we've been decent enough away from home but have not been picking up the points we deserve and need to pick up.'"That's a big part of the frustration - we're in games. When we get blown away, we get blown away, hopefully we're on a better track now and have put steps in place to try and ensure that doesn't happen."We've been in games and we now need to convert those into points."
