‘It’d mean the world’: Portsmouth close in on Championship return

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‘It’d mean the world’: Portsmouth close in on Championship return

With John Mousinho in charge, the whole city is ready to celebrate after 12 years out of the top two divisionsWhen Portsmouth celebrated promotion to the Premier League in 2003 and lifting the FA Cup in 2008 which, it later emerged, came at a crippling cost, Southsea Common played host to the party. Fans also gathered there to toast winning League Two in 2017, though at that point they did not anticipate spending quite so long in League One. At …