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Southampton's saviour should provide inspiration for Portsmouth
Portsmouth supporters ("Skates") drawing inspiration from Southampton ("Scummers")? Next weekend, the unfeasibly venomous south-coast rivalry inverts the norm of the Premier League club lording it over a division two tiers down. Portsmouth face the threat of becoming the first Premier League name to crash into administration, while Southampton have emerged from similar unpleasantness to draw huge crowds to unglamorous matches while successfully reordering the whole structure of the club.An example: Saints have already broken the record for the biggest crowd in the lower divisions' cup, the Johnstone's Paint Trophy, shifting more than 26,000 tickets for Tuesday's semi-final second leg...
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