Myra met Nadia for the first time on the bus.

We needed it, for the last leg was the toughest of all: the Nullarbor Plain, which stretches across the south of the country.

As well as assistant manager Tony Adams, there are currently Lauren, Sol Campbell, Kanu, Richard Hughes, Lassana Diarra and Jerome Thomas on the books at Pompey, all of them ex-Arsenal players.