Was this the moment that clinched Pompey's safety?

My feeling is very much that yesterday's win at Norwich City will be noted down as 'the moment' that clinched Portsmouth's goal of survival this season.

Just like Kusini Yengi's late winner at Peterborough United in the previous title-winning campaign - whilst not beyond numerical certainty at the time - is fondly reflected on as when we knew we'd done it.

Pompey are very much the talk of the Championship at the start of this extended footballing weekend.

Colby Bishop's first professional career hat-trick, Josh Murphy breaking Opta records for assists in a single season, and Regan Poole became a second-tier goalscorer. It was quite the afternoon.

The completely bonkers affair usurped a Pompey convention on the road - we've been in games, but repeatedly have been undone by a single goal of late. My mind takes me to Sheffield United, Preston North End, Millwall and Coventry City.

Whilst there are similarities to draw in terms of the frenetic nature of some of these away games - none of them have seen us exert such goal-scoring prowess as we did in East Anglia yesterday afternoon.

I felt particularly at the break [1-3 for those keeping count], that we'd had almost everything you could ask for from a Pompey performance on the road. Score early, yes, get pegged back, but show the character and the guile to look beyond that and continue to play our game.

How many times has conceding away from home completely killed any level of performance or momentum in a game for us this season? It didn't happen yesterday.

Freddie Potts had a wonderful afternoon - considering Norwich's reluctance to tackle it made his display an absolute joy to watch. Some of the football he orchestrated from the middle of the park was sublime.

It was also Adil Aouchiche's best performance in a Pompey shirt. He's shown a real tenacity and desire since arriving in January, so it's great to see that translate into tangible returns in terms of assists.

Murphy needs little discussion or description - it's almost as if sometimes when he's running at pace with the ball, his feet don't actually look like they're touching the ground.

Of all English players across the Premier League and Championship, only Cole Palmer (22) has more goal involvements than Pompey's magic man (20) on the left wing.

Speaking of magic men - a last word on Bishop.

Missing a penalty in a massive moment not six days before, the call comes for him to take another one is an almost obscene mental battle - yet as he stood over the spot-kick facing the River End, I had absolutely no doubt that he was going to bury it. And bury it he did.

Having been out for three months of the season following heart surgery, to score 10 Championship goals since November, including a hat-trick yesterday to put Pompey six points clear of the drop zone with three games to play - there's very little that will top that as a story this season.

I've been in every single Pompey away end this season, and it may well come as no surprise to you to say it was the loudest I have heard us on our travels.

The full-time air was full of a genuine optimism for just short of 2,000 travelling fans that Pompey will retain their Championship status for at least another year.

Fingers crossed it won't be long before that all-important numerical certainty.