Pompey's Robert may revisit bench

After a week in which he called a crisis meeting with his team-mates, Laurent Robert may have inadvertently stumbled upon the answer to Portsmouth’s recent Barclays Premiership afflictions.

Claiming injury, Robert pulled out of his side’s crucial Stadium of Light clash with Sunderland after discovering he had only been named on the bench. He then watched from the stands as his team-mates scored their best win of the season.