KRANC’S CROCKED
YOU could never accuse Portsmouth of with-holding information when it comes to letting their supporters know what’s going on behind the screens.
Check out this club statement on Niko Kranjcar’s recent ankle operation.
“The operation took place at the Hampshire Clinic in Basingstoke and was performed by James Calder, a consultant orthopaedic surgeon specialist in foot and ankle surgery.
“The same surgeon operated on former Pompey player Pedro Mendes last season when he had a similar injury.
“Blues club doctor, Nigel Sellars, attended the operation along with the orthopaedic surgeon to the Croatia national team.
“The 24-year-old will wear a non-weight bearing case for the three weeks before beginning rehabilitation weeks.”
All very well. But “his ankle’s done in and he won’t play for three months” would have done!
NOT SO SWEET FA
NO wonder Harry Redknapp was distancing himself from Portsmouth’s FA Cup lap of honour before the game with Manchester United on Monday.
It was left to two embarrassed stewards to shuffle uncomfortably round the ground with the trophy, ensuring a low-key, nay farcical, feel to the whole thing.
But small wonder celebration time is well and truly a thing of the past.
Despite the FA Cup final win over Cardiff in May, Pompey go into today’s game at Goodison Park hoping to avoid a seventh successive Premier League defeat.
WORDS OF WISDOM
“He could help us a bit by winning more headers”
Harry Redknapp – losing patience with Peter Crouch after just two games (and to think Crouchie left Liverpool to go to a club where he felt wanted)
“I’d swap Defoe for Yakubu in a flash right now.”
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WANT TO BET?
THOSE aforementioned strikers shared three goals when Everton beat Pompey 3-1 in March. But to net their own treble today, you can get 18-1 for Yakubu to score a hat-trick against his former club and 28-1 for Defoe to hit three.
WHO’S THE MAN?
EVERTON fans have a chance to vote for their Man of the Match from today’s game against Portsmouth – just go to www.evertonbanter.co.uk and follow the ‘Man of the Match’ links. You can also vote when you access the live match report, which will be online after the game.
