{"id":136595,"date":"2025-09-14T11:11:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T11:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/136595\/"},"modified":"2025-09-14T11:11:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T11:11:08","slug":"southampton-vs-portsmouth-championship-stats-head-to-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/136595\/","title":{"rendered":"Southampton vs Portsmouth: Championship stats &#038; head-to-head"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Agent &#8216;Arry&#8217; and a history of rivalrypublished at 11:48 BST<\/p>\n<p>11:48 BST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-16yshci-Paragraph e14e9ror4\">Southampton v Portsmouth (12:00 BST)<\/p>\n<p>      <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Harry Resknapp shrugs his shoulders with arms outstretched on the touchline\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/cdab3b09-c9f8-458f-a360-3a026ab9d45a.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"1024\" height=\"748\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, Getty Images<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Being two port cities so closely positioned on the south coast, the potential for local rivalry to manifest in the two clubs is obvious.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But while the friction has always remained fierce, there has been a surisingly low number of matches between Saints and Pompey &#8211; just 72 in 125 years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The animosity was really ramped up in the early 2000s and one man was right at the centre &#8211; Harry Redknapp.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Having led Pompey to promotion to the Premier League in 2002, Redknapp left Fratton Park two years later and, despite vowing there would be &#8220;no chance&#8221; of him doing so, made the controversial switch to St Mary&#8217;s just a few weeks later.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But Portsmouth fans would have the last laugh as Saints were relegated at the end of the season, with Redknapp resigning and again crossing the divide back to Portsmouth, where he would go on to win the FA Cup in 2007-08.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8216;Agent &#8216;Arry&#8217; and a history of rivalrypublished at 11:48 BST 11:48 BST Southampton v Portsmouth (12:00 BST) Image&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23089,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-136595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136595\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}