article_snippet: West Brom played Harry Redknapp's Portsmouth in the 2008 FA Cup - a team guilty of 'boom and bust'
article_snippet: ’ Examples of clubs that aimed for the stars but have ended up in administration or other self-inflicted fiscal turmoil are numerous.
article_snippet: Leeds, QPR, Birmingham and Coventry spring readily to mind.
article_snippet: But it is another example, Portsmouth, that most irks West Brom, who lost to a ‘financially doped’ Pompey in the 2008 FA Cup semi-finals.
article_snippet: Portsmouth went on to win the trophy before a spectacular meltdown caused by the unsustainable spending undertaken to assemble and pay Harry Redknapp's’s squad at that time.
article_snippet: Portsmouth were flying high and eventually won the FA Cup, but are now mid-table in the fourth division .
article_snippet: West Brom say they are still frustrated at losing to a team Portsmouth 'basically couldn't afford'
article_snippet: It still pinches us at West Brom that us lost us last the FA Cup semi-final to a team the opposition basically couldn’t afford,’ said Jenkins.
article_snippet: Pompey are now mid-table in the fourth tier.