Lighthouse

I'd rather have a home second leg but other than that I don't think there's a lot riding on this. Ironically, we may end up better off not winning this. Playing Boro home first, then Millwall at Wembley might well be easier than playing Boro home second, then Ipswich at Wembley. All hypothetical, I think the main thing is just momentum and putting in a performance.

It wasn’t a free kick. Leo was looking for that all day long.

What an effort from everyone….. gaaahhhhhh…

Awful, because it’s literally just a copy of every other club’s fans doing exactly the same song for one of their players.

Looking at this weekends fixtures, I think we just want every team from the midlands in the top two divisions to win.

I’d say that was less tin foil hat and more aerospace-grade titanium sombrero, but I do admire your sense of imagination.

Presumably for clattering into him, which is still a foul even if the ref didn't see an elbow at the time.

The difference being that Gabriel was booked as the referee saw the incident at the time and acted accordingly. A yellow was very lenient but that’s what he gave. Downes elbow was clearly not seen at the time, which is why he has a retrospective ban. It doesn’t seem fair on the face of it but them’s the rules.

They’ll be tough to beat but not as good as peak Ipswich. GD is usually a good indicator of how good a team is over a season and Ipswich’s is far better then Millwall’s.

I don’t care who goes up apart from Saints. Ipswich, on their day, are a better team than Millwall and the one I’d least like to meet in the final.

Fairly happy with those results. Ipswich take a big step towards beating Millwall into second and Boro don’t put any kind of meaningful dent in our GD advantage in a game they should be winning at a canter.

We've had an awful lot go our way in the last couple of weeks, with last minute winners and all of our rivals dropping unexpected points. I never had Pompey to beat Ipswich and Boro in the space of a long weekend but they did. The problem is that to get second we basically needed about 12 games for various clubs to go perfectly in our favour and they were never going to.

I think his time here is done, whether we go up or not. We've clearly decided to replace him with someone else and I think the bridges have probably been burned.

I mentioned this when Roy was appointed but you can fit the entire life of Freddie Mercury between the birth of Hodgson and Eckert. I wonder if there's ever been such an age gap between two managers in English football before.

If ever you needed an example of why players throw themselves to the floor pathetically if someone lightly touches their face, then that incident is it.