Our collection of retro Portsmouth player and team imagery charts an era of change from the club’s back-to-back Championship winning days in 1949 and 1950, through rapid 60s decline and a bottoming out in the old Third Division by the mid 70s. Check out other Vintage posts in our regular series.

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Jimmy Dickinson, Portsmouth 1951

Portsmouth 1951

Peter Harris, Portsmouth 1951

Doug Reid, Portsmouth 1951

Alan Barnett, Portsmouth 1958

Portsmouth 1958

Brian Carter, Portsmouth 1960

Portsmouth 1962

Portsmouth 1963

Roy Lunnis, Portsmouth 1964

George Ley, Portsmouth 1967

Graham Horn, Portsmouth 1973

Alan Stephenson and Nick Jennings, Portsmouth 1973

Phil Roberts, Portsmouth 1973

Bobby Kellard and Ron Davies, Portsmouth 1973

Paul Went, Portsmouth 1974

Bobby Kellard, Portsmouth 1974