Not a good game today lads, not a good one at all.

Let's ignore the result for a moment however, and focus on the bigger news. Honestly it was the biggest news of the day for me. Apparently, David Nugent can play football. I actually just heard a large gasp. I was surprised too. I honestly thought he mistakenly signed for us on his way to try out for Cranleigh Ladies Hockey Club. Luckily for Cranleigh he ended up with us.

Back to the match,

It was a worrisome start for Portsmouth as Agbonlahor nearly scored 30 seconds in, but Mokena answered with a near miss of his own. Pompey came into this game as heavy underdogs but made the most of the start, the highlight being multiple crosses into the box from Belhadj. We absolutely dominated possession in the first ten minutes and frequently made Villa look silly.

Unfortunately as far as shots went it was all long range for us, but Villa couldn't find anything either. The bulk of the first part of the game was spent in the middle of the park. Then right on ten minutes David James prevented disaster with a brilliant save to keep an own goal out of the back of the net. After that Villa really turned it on, Ashley Young tore through our defense like it was nothing. The pressure on Pompey was immense, something had to give. Piquionne looked like he might make something but it was foiled by the staunch Aston Villa defense. Our loan from Tottenham Jamie O'Hara made a couple of chances around twenty minutes in, but as the previous times nothing ever came of it.

Belhadj's name came up again when he got in the way of a volley from Milner that even I thought was surely going in. Twenty two minutes in saw Portsmouth get their first corner, and it looked like nothing would come of it. But then out of nowhere came Piquionne, seriously he must have jumped almost completely over the lad who was marking him, however a great header sailed just wide as Portsmouth was denied again.

Then after a promising start, Belhadj made his first mistake. A really poor challenge led to a penalty that was converted by James Milner, David James went the right way, but just missed. Maybe he'll enlighten us more on that in his newspaper column. That really was a turning point, after half an hour of good football Belhadj made a foolish challenge and seemingly unhinged Pompey. On the other side of the squad, Piquionne seemed to be causing more problems than he solved, frequently offside, poor passing and even a bit of a shouting match with Paul Hart on the touch line.

But after consecutive corners Pompey looked like they might save this game yet, or at least finish the half strong. Villa however had other plans and dominated and then made David James and Ben-Haim look like school boys with a brilliant side foot from out side the box to put Pompey down 2-0 at the half.

Then after 15 minutes of what must have been some harsh words from Paul Hart Pompey took the field again, looking to make up for a poor end to the first half.

Jamie O'Hara nearly linked up with Tommy Smith, but it wasn't to be. Portsmouth seemed to be unable to play anything but tight on Agbonlahor, And payed for it quite often. David James then made two fairly good saves, looked like we might see some real quality on our other lad we stole from Cranleigh.

Hopes of a comeback were quickly fading as Aston Villa continually tore right through our defense. I mean honestly, if you didn't see the game you can't understand just how poorly our defense was playing. And the midfielders and attackers weren't far off of that standard.

By the time the game hit the hour mark we were resorting to cheap challenges, lazy passes and ridiculously tight marking, something I still don't understand. Then things briefly looked up, Kaboul took a good free kick that nearly went in, but a good save from Brad Friedel prevented that. Boateng then made me get out of my seat by taking the best chance Portsmouth had all game, but we were again denied by the American keeper.

Piquionne then had a great chance that was again stopped by the Villa Goalie. At that point, I could almost taste the goal that was sure to come. Belhadj nearly provided it with a screamer stopped by Friedel. Seventy minutes in it looked like Pompey might get a goal from Michael Brown but again, it was saved.

That's how the beginning of the second half went, shot by Portsmouth, save by Friedel. Shot from Portsmouth, saved by Fridel, it would be a fairly massive understatement to say that it was frustrating. A corner awarded to Villa announced that they were done playing around with Pompey and they now meant business, however David James kept it out.

At a quarter of an hour Kanu and Danny Webber came on for Tommy Smith and Piquionnne respectively in an attempt to get the two goals that we so desperately needed. After an Emile Heskey injury ten minutes stood between us and shameful Premiership history and even though we practically bought land in their half of the pitch we couldn't get a goal, it was ridiculous.

It seemed the goal would never come, and it didn't. It was by all accounts a poor game. Aston Villa played well, we didn't. It was as simple as that. At crucial moments we fell apart, when we shot it was either directly at the keeper or ten yards wide of goal. It was terrible, and what's worse, not we have lost six consecutive league matches. That is a new Premier League record. So,congrats lads. You went out and played poorly, set an embarrassing record and worst of all you're proving everyone that said you were the weakest team in the league right. You're doing the Gold Crescent real proud.