[Getty Images]The duality of football manifested itself perfectly in Portsmouth's loss at Coventry City.

A jubilant away end watched on as Pompey suffered a 5-1 defeat on a Tuesday night, three hours from home, yet still confirmed their mathematical safety, on the same pitch as a team that in turn won the Championship title with a handful of games to spare.

It was always going to be about what happened elsewhere for Pompey last night, namely the result of Oxford United's game against Wrexham.

When news began to spread of the full-time result at the Kassam, despite having witnessed yet another hammering on our travels, it set off scenes in the away end. None of us had ever been happier with a 5-1 loss away from home.

It points to the bigger picture that Pompey have had so many of these results in them this season, and while confirmation of divisional status is a welcome relief -and, somewhat, an achievement in itself - there is absolutely nowhere to hide for conceding goals against the title winners in the way we did.

The reason it is only 'somewhat' of an achievement is down mainly to two things, although some might not even consider it an achievement at all - more a failure of a season, which would, in turn, have been labelled a catastrophic failure had we gone down.

The first is that this is probably the easiest season you could have wished for to stay up in the Championship for a very long time.

Points deductions for two, and maybe even three teams this campaign, have meant points have been easier to come by against some of the sides down there, albeit also meaning the tally to stay up is slightly and unusually higher.

The second is that Pompey's season this year could have been about so much more than just surviving.

For a number of intrinsic reasons, what this campaign appeared to be after the first international break in September last year, and what it has turned out to be, are remarkably contrasting.

John Mousinho is a miracle worker. He has time and again been sent into battle on the good ship Pompey rudderless and with little to no ammunition, and has somehow emerged from the other side victorious.

There are only so many seasons in which you get away with this, and only so many times you can ride your luck as we have done this year.

Over the summer, the football club must, and I'm sure it will, have a number of sensible, rational conversations about where and what it wants to be.

Could you just imagine what a manager as talented as Mousinho could achieve with the appropriate tools at his disposal?

There is no endless war chest required and that is not what anyone is reasonably asking for.

For the time being, enough investment to prevent yearly scuffles with the bottom end of the Championship, and more regular opportunities to look up more than we look down, would suffice.

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