🎧 An owner who 'got' Portsmouth

Former Portsmouth owner Milan Mandaric understood what it meant to be a supporter of the club, according to BBC Radio Solent commentator Andrew Moon.

Mandaric has died at the age of 87 having owned Pompey from 1999 to 2006, during which time he saved the club from going out of business and oversaw a promotion to the Premier League in 2003.

"Nowadays there are loads of football club owners who you don't know what their voices sound like, they can be pretty faceless," said Moon on the latest edition of BBC Radio Solent's Portsmouth podcast, Who Needs Mourinho?

"We all know what Milan sounded like and there were elements of him in an owner of what you didn't want in an owner - he was temperamental, probably sacked managers too quickly, he was not a level head with a win or a loss - he was up, he was down.

"But he got it, he got Portsmouth Football Club, he got the city, he got what success would mean."

You can listen to the latest episode of Who Needs Mourinho? and past editions on BBC Sounds