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Hackett-Fairchild is looking to enjoy his football again after ‘tough’ Blues spell

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POMPEY’s Reeco HackettFai­rchild is looking forward to enjoying his football again after completing a loan move to former club Bromley.

The 23-year-old said he was ‘buzzing’ to be back at Hayes Lanes for a third time, after enduring a difficult couple of months at Fratton Park.

On Monday night forward Hackett-Fairchild sealed a temporary return to the National League outfit until January 3, with the Blues holding a recall option after an initial 28-day period.

It sees him head back to the side who sold him to Pompey back in January foran undisclose­d fee.

With just one senior Blues appearance to his name since then, it’s understand­able why the move suits both the club and the player.

And as Hackett-Fairchild anticipate­d sticking on a Bromley shirt once more, he admitted he couldn’t wait to kick-start his playing career.

In a Twitter post, the former Charlton youngster said: ‘Can’t wait to get going and enjoying my football again. Lets go!’

He then followed that comment up by telling Bromley’s website that this is where he wanted to be after a ‘tough’ time at

Fratton Park.

‘It’s been tough the last nine months with no football but I can’t wait to get back, get started again and win some games and score some goals,’ HackettFai­rchild added.

‘It is somewhere I admire. It is somewhere I have come and enjoyed each spell I’ve spent at the Club, I can’t fault it.

‘It was the first place I wanted to come to at this level, I’m buzzing to be back.’

Before moving to Pompey, Hackett-Fairchild scored eight goals in 25 appearance­s for Bromley during the 2019-20 season.

Yet he struggled to establish himself at the

Blues, with his solitary appearance coming at Walsall in the EFL Trophy a day after he arrived.

And last week Kenny Jackett told The News that Hackett-Fairchild was frustrated with his lack of opportunit­ies and was keen to exit Pompey on a temporary basis.

He said: ‘It’s tough for Reeco and he would 100 per cent want to go out on loan, yes. He had a good pre-season and has in recent weeks got over his injury and looks sharp in training.

‘But would he want to go on loan? Yes, he would.’

Hackett-Fairchild has made a solitary Pompey appearance since joining in January

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Pompey forward Reeco Hackett-Fairchild
‘TOUGH’ TIME Pompey forward Reeco Hackett-Fairchild

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