This report was written by Jonno from the Unofficial Message Board.

An above average performance by Rangers as we deservedly took all three points. The team was Harper, Perry and Bruce Wbs, Bara, Ready and Plummer cbs, Langley, Peacock and Wardley mfld, koejoe, Kiwomya stikers.

Right from the start Rangers looked the classier outfit, particularly when we played the ball on the ground, which for once we did a lot of the time. Pompey struggled to break down our defence and were reduced to long range shooting, none of it at all accurate. Langley was getting a lot of the ball, and he stood out head and shoulders in the midfield as a notch above the other midfield players on view.

Although we weren't creating as many clear cut chances as our superior ability should have done, it was no real surprise when we went ahead with a cracker of a goal from Langley. Ready played the ball along the ground (shock!) to Langley in midfield, he played a simple 1-2 and let fly with a screamer from about 25 yards which the keeper could only touch onto the underside of the bar as it scorched into the net.

The expected response from Pompey never came as we defended the remaining quarter of an hour until half time quite comfortably, and in fact could have gone further ahead when Wardley got free on the right and his cross found Koejoe in the box who headed over when he might have done better.

Second half, and the referee carried on as he left off in the first half after we had scored, ie giving every decision to Pompey in an attempt to get them back in the game.

In fact there was a ten minute period in the second half in which we witnessed probably the most concentrated refereeing ineptitude of the season, where he got two decisons over a throw in wrong in the space of five seconds, then totally failed to deal with the donkey Bradbury who accused Peacock of diving after he had run into the back of Peacock who, naturally, had fallen down.

This then provoked a fight after which, for some strange reason, only Langley was booked (the guilty donkey wasn't even spoken to). From the ensuing piece of play, Bradbury exacted revenge on Peacock, in their penalty area I may add, by punching him in the ribs. The referee must have seen it, but chose to ignore it of course, and Gavin needed treatment. Quite apalling refereeing.

Bradbury was booked for a lucicrously late challenge later on Murray later on, but by then he should not have been on the pitch.Anyway, Perry was replaced early in the second half by Murray, presumably with yet another injury, although hopefully it didn't seem too serious. The substitution unsettled us for a few minutes though, and during this time Portsmouth equalised as we went to sleep at the back and a cross from the left was swept in by Allen as he escaped his marker.

The game deteriorated after that, as we appeared to settle for a draw, more or less, and they were just incapable of scoring again, despite forcing a succession of corners. The turning point in the game came with a few minutes to go when Gallen came on for the ineffective Kiwomya (Kulscar also came on for Bruce at the same time).

You won't be surprised to learn that we immediately looked more effective up front, and within a couple of minutes Gallen had put us ahead as he picked up the ball, ran at and across their static defence left to right and swivelled to shoot past the keeper from 20 yards.

Virtually from the kick off, Rangers won possession again, played the ball around until Koejoe made a run down the left onto a good ball through, beat two defenders in the box and cut the ball back from the deadball line across the goal where one of their many clumsy defenders bundled the ball home for us. We then took the piss for the remaining couple of minutes as Pompey couldn't get the ball off us.Sweet.

One word for the Pompey fans - the opposing fans might be able to make a bit more noise, and thus add to the atmosphere in the ground, if your club forked out for a bloody roof over the away end! Cheapskates.

Harper - Confident performance generally, dealt well with crosses, but nearly gave away a goal with a dawdled clearance in the second half.

Perry - Usual solid performance, although wing back is not really his position.Replaced by Murray.

Bruce - Actually dealt very well today with Hall, dispossessing him often, much to the chagrin of the Pompey faithful.

Baraclough - Solid performance at sweeper.

Plummer - Excellent today, won everything in the air and starting to show the confidence to play the ball on the ground.

Ready - Pompey's long ball game played right into his hands and he didn't let us down.Encouraging to see him playing the ball on the deck as well.

Wardley - Got into an amazing amount of space down the right in the first half, but faded a little after half time.Not a bad show though.

Peacock - Worked bloody hard the whole game, and did a lot of chasing down.

Langley - Easily the class player on show (although Gallen looked good when he came on also).Made mugs of their midfield players most of the time, and put in some excellent tackles.Soooopairb goal (as Mr Brazil would say if he wasn't outrageously biaised against us!

) Kiwomya - Disappointing performance today from Chris he seemd to be often on a different wavelength to Koejoe up front.Worked hard though, and was still a problem for their defence.

Koejoe - Another good performance from the Dutch boy. Won more than he had a right to in the air, and looked sharp.Very, very promising.

Subs:

Gallen - Looked a class player when he came on - him and Koejoe together destroyed their defence in the last few minutes. Kulcsar - Not sure if he touched the ball.