That's what I call an injury time game winner.

98th f**king minute ?? Who are they man ure ???

Sets up next week's 'minor' derby for both of us nicely though.

Fair enough Weed on 1-0. But do you really have to dive so much in games ?

The commo thought they were at a Greg Luganis convention of divers. Brighton sounded too good for that when they actually played.

I missed this one unfortunately. They must be on cloud 9 in Brighton starting the campaign with 6 points. Another bright spot in the Championship is how terrible Leeds has been.

I'm sure they're just getting comfortable in the league... learning the officiating style, etc.

Any guesses what extra's getting added to the Portsmouth training schedule this week?

New manager hopefully. Lack of tactics today cost us dear, as is the appalingly small squad. Never should have toured the US, a complete waste of 2 weeks when he should have been meeting players he wanted to sign.

And even then he claims the players were tired after the first game ffs.

BOOM! 1-0 in extra time against Sunderland!

Everybody here ready to get accused of front-running?

It's not been a bad start has it? Great new stadium, sold out games, Liverpool in the League Cup, on the TV twice in a week, and now we are signing Vicente Rodriguez from Valencia. He's won La Liga twice, and the Spanish Cup, he's played under Jose Mourinio, and Real Madrid tried to buy him 2 years ago for 30m Euros. It's a great time to be an Albion fan.

So how does the play-off system work for NSC? It's looking good that you'll be in the first round, if you win that, I guess you make it to the final do you win the Trophy? Are there benefits going into next season? Where is the final held?

Six teams make it into the playoffs. 3 vs. 6 and 4 vs. 5 for the first round. In the second round is 1 vs lowest remaining, 2 vs the other. Final I believe is held at the highest finisher in the standings. In American sports, winning the trophy at the end of the season playoffs is the generally the top goal, finishing top of the table is mostly just to assure home field advantage for the playoffs.

Unfortunately, there is no other associated benefit. We do have a Cup competition across all levels in US soccer like the FA Cup, but due to the late sanctioning of the league, our teams weren't able to participate despite being the second tier. Next year hopefully that will change. Winning the US Open Cup theoretically would get the winner into the CONCACAF Champions League, but we have our suspicions that if a lower league team were to win the cup they'd find a way to give that spot to an MLS team.

I spent all yesterday nibbling my fingernails to the quick watching the transfer deadline action, but took time out to watch Vicente's various highlight reels. Looks top notch, he'd be a great addition to what already seems like a very well put together team. Nice!

The intangible benefit of getting into the playoffs and doing well is that it may make us a more attractive club to an investor/owner. However, that may be entirely imaginary on my part.

I have a feeling that if the new Minnesota Vikings Stadium gets built to accommodate an MLS team, it won't really matter how we do this or any previous season. It'll only matter that we share their hand-egg field for the summer and justify the expense.