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Wed 10 Oct 2009Portsmouth strikers respond to league respite
ENGLISH LEAGUE CUP Portsmouth 4 Stoke City 0: FOR A few giddy minutes last night, this stadium echoed to the chimes of a glorious recent past. An evening of respite from what has proved a farcical Premier League campaign coaxed the bite from Portsmouth’s forwards and prompted familiar refrains of Que Sera Serafrom the locals.
There was even a goal for their veteran substitute Nwankwo Kanu before the end after Glenn Whelan’s horrible error, the Nigerian finishing with glorious ease as Stoke wilted.
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