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Can any Portsmouth fans tell me why they are called POMPEY??
oh and as i'm very nice:
PORTSMOUTH Public Library issued a leaflet a few years ago with
several explanations, including that from your previous
correspondent. No-one knows if the nick-name was first applied to the
town or to the football team. The football team had its origins in a
team from the Royal Artillery. One day, a unit from the RA were doing
a duty which in France would have been performed by firemen. Some
Frenchmen present noticed this, and gave the RA the nick-name "les
pompiers", and the name stuck to the team. Other suggestions:
Portuguese sailors accompanying Catherine of Braganza to her wedding
with Charles II in Portsmouth noticed a likeness between the town and
the then Portuguese possession, Bombay - both low flat islands with a
hill in the background. In 1797, La Pompee was one of the ships most
involved in the Spithead mutiny. "Pom-pey" sounds like the utterances
of drunken sailors asking their way to Portsmouth Point, whence they
would take ship. Some Portsmouth-based sailors climbed to the top of
Pompey's pillar in Egypt, and became known as the Pompey
boys. "Pompey" is northern slang for a prison, and there is a naval
prison in Portsmouth. The line from Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra
- "Pompey is strong at sea" would appeal to nick-name loving
sailors. There is, or was, a naval expression "to play Pompey" meaning
"to wreak havoc". Any of these might have given rise to the nick-name,
but no-one really knows. And to repeat, the earliest written reference
is to the football team.
David Francis, University of Portsmouth Library, Portsmouth, Hants
stolen from a pompey anorak site.
PORTSMOUTH Public Library issued a leaflet a few years ago with
several explanations, including that from your previous
correspondent. No-one knows if the nick-name was first applied to the
town or to the football team. The football team had its origins in a
team from the Royal Artillery. One day, a unit from the RA were doing
a duty which in France would have been performed by firemen. Some
Frenchmen present noticed this, and gave the RA the nick-name "les
pompiers", and the name stuck to the team. Other suggestions:
Portuguese sailors accompanying Catherine of Braganza to her wedding
with Charles II in Portsmouth noticed a likeness between the town and
the then Portuguese possession, Bombay - both low flat islands with a
hill in the background. In 1797, La Pompee was one of the ships most
involved in the Spithead mutiny. "Pom-pey" sounds like the utterances
of drunken sailors asking their way to Portsmouth Point, whence they
would take ship. Some Portsmouth-based sailors climbed to the top of
Pompey's pillar in Egypt, and became known as the Pompey
boys. "Pompey" is northern slang for a prison, and there is a naval
prison in Portsmouth. The line from Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra
- "Pompey is strong at sea" would appeal to nick-name loving
sailors. There is, or was, a naval expression "to play Pompey" meaning
"to wreak havoc". Any of these might have given rise to the nick-name,
but no-one really knows. And to repeat, the earliest written reference
is to the football team.
David Francis, University of Portsmouth Library, Portsmouth, Hants
stolen from a pompey anorak site.
when i was just a little boy,
i asked my mother what should i be,
Should i be saints, should i be scum?
heres what she said to me:
wash your mouth out son,
and fetch your fathers gun,
and kill the pompey scum
and support the saints
we hate pompey, we hate pompey
Good old south coast rivalries!
i asked my mother what should i be,
Should i be saints, should i be scum?
heres what she said to me:
wash your mouth out son,
and fetch your fathers gun,
and kill the pompey scum
and support the saints
we hate pompey, we hate pompey
Good old south coast rivalries!
Can any Portsmouth fans tell me why they are called POMPEY??