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Quite! Anybody familiar with the border ballads [e.g. "Clerk Saunders"] will appreciate that we've had it within our own culture in the past, although fortunately we've moved on a bit. It seems to be a very peasant and uneducated cultural phenomenon.

But Mero, the whole point is that none of us see how on earth they can. There's enough people on here with business experience at different levels, and one thing I reckon they'd all say is that the trust is severely undercapitalised, even without all the baggage and the unquantified nature of so many of the issues. They've got a To Do list, and they can't tick off any of the items because each one has so many contingencies, unknowns and associated crocks of ****. Their budget is unrealistic and idealistic in the extreme even if everything went as planned. Whoever said you'd be better off with a clean phoenix club was right, in my opinion.

Is it fame or infamy, this wall, it changes every week? [For our older readers "Infamy, infamy, they've all got it in for me" seems quite appropriate for Pompey fans..] My onw wording would probably be Tal Ben Haim Saints Legend

I do so like British understatement, although down The Gordon Arms or similar they'd probably say "no ****ing chance"... As for the £4million wage bill: you're in financial trouble for goodness sake! Overpaying is how you got into it in the first place.

Will there be a special gold medal stamp issued when this thread finally finishes? First day covers with a Porstmouth post office stamping. In the meantime note this: "It’s only a fortnight until we play at Plymouth. In that time I need to put together a squad of 20 players.” and snig ger.

I saw my name in a quote. The number of times I've seen my name in a quote is certainly more times than I've mentioned the person who was quoted. I find that quite funny. I also find it quite funny the number of times my posts such as this are immediately followed by posts from the person I have on ignore. Think I've mentioned said name twice, but if large numbers of people are aware who I've got on ignore it's not my fault. :-)

It does remind one of some of the more [most?] illiterate contributions in The News' blogs. He may not be a skate but we certainly appreciate being reminded of the hilarious issues pompey currently have in the transfer market.

Genuine loud cackling laughter time; fortunately I'd already swallowed my last bit of tea. Which reminds me.. Wilkinsons are doing spare plug and play USB keyboards at £5.30: you wouldn't want to type a book with it, but it's fine for this post. Quite a useful precautionary tool for when reading this thread although I got mine as laptop was playing up.

B****r, brought my boots and spare gloves over on holiday in case I could get to train with the local women's side in mum's town, but I didn't bring my shin pads.. So don't you forget yours!

I hope Bolton are getting their expenses/promised payment in advance....

Will the kinky nurse's uniform fit me?

Gotta luv The Sun, half the article consists of his name!

I've been giving this guy secret whistle and flute lessons: he _said_ he was Steve Davis, in fact when I went into the room he was repeatedly saying "I am Steve Davis, Oim Steve Davis". Hmmm

Interesting. It's a pre-season friendly and it sometimes difficult to gauge things, but JWP looks the part. Wasn't sure if the initial formation/lack of ambition was a realistic assessment of how we could be up against it occasionally in the prem and needed to practise absorbing pressure, but we've changed it and improved things. Clyne looks useful, "Julie" doing some good things, Lambert (I agree) looks a bit heavy but we know how it takes him time to get fit. Who knows what will happen in the second half, but it does suggest we're better than Celtic - perhaps that's not saying much...

Cheers! Working!

[shh, I was going to use in on Phil...]

Mmmm, stylish! Why, thank you, DP! [Now where's me fish-filleting knife..] ;-)

Yah rude b****r, I'm positively sylph like compared to pictures of various golfing personages I've seen!;-) Can't imagine Thai markets catering for fat Germans, British or (gulp) 'Mericans don't have large sizes... So what did you beat them down too then?

The bit from Kanu's statement I like was "is willing to compromise significantly by a combination of waiving/deferring his entitlement provided he is certain the club will actually be saved and there will be an upside at some date in the future." Remarkably percipient! They've noted that any promise involving a CVA is not worth the paper it's written on..nor can chinny be guaranteed to maintain the existance of the club beyond the next parachute payment. (Which is when, incidentally?)

The Portsmouth virus: "the former Birmingham City and Portsmouth player Aliou Cissé, accused Team GB of hypocrisy for complaining about the treatment they received in the game. "I'm surprised to hear that, coming from Great Britain. They are well known for their physicality and fighting spirit, not Senegal," he said. "I can't say I saw a bad tackle on the pitch. All I saw was my players trying to get the ball in a fair way. There was absolutely no bad tackles on the pitch." Bestest fans, not our fault, absolutely no bad tackles... aargh, it's catching.

Ta! Replied..

See!

That's odd. Turkish so often posts just after me, sometimes I think I've got a stalker.

£50 a ticket... hmm. But as I only get to see a few matches a season when I'm over I'm prepared to do so. I'll head up north, staying with various friends on the way and take in the match. Have a night out in Mancs on the Saturday.... So any season ticket holder who won't be going prepared to help me out?

"Benders"? How quaint, although I've always thought Hypo is on the internet too much to be vanilla, probably whacking off to pictures of young ladyboys, or lesbian twosomes. Haven't been on them for years, but it's amazing how many "straight" men go on dyke chat-rooms.:-)