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Hawks at home to Newport County this afternoon. We got a bumper crowd - Newport, being a former League club, always bring plenty with them, and quite a few Pompey fans came as they didn't have a match - so the clubhouse was jam-packed before kick-off and when I entered the ground at 2.45 there was a massive queue at the tea hut. I decided to wait till half time for a bacon butty, but by 3.30 the queue was a mile long, so I made my way down there then. Got to the front just after the half-time whistle.

The first hour of the game was dull, dull, dull, and as I headed back into the stand after getting my bacon roll it started to rain again. The rain only lasted about 10 minutes, then on the hour mark Rocky Baptiste ran at the Newport defence; when they began to surround him he sidefooted to Jamie Collins. The keeper parried JC's shot but Charlie Henry was on hand to tap it home. "A goal we didn't deserve," one of the two old blokes in front of me said, but no-one was complaining. A few minutes after that ex-Hawk Andy Gurney pulled Rocky back by his shirt and was sent off, to the delight of the Hawks fans, and Rocky made it 2-0 from the spot.

The play-off dream isn't over yet, and it stayed bright and sunny for the walk back to the station.