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You're joking, right?

Christ that's pitiful. Journo didn't even bother to put a call in. Embarassing.

A better letter it would have been difficult to imagine. Great news, but personally I'm also leaving the champagne on ice until it's all gone through. Then we can start the rebuilding process, without, I would suggest, Wotte at the helm.

I wouldn't worry. I'm sure the fearless newshounds at the Echo are more than capable of doing that. Oh.

By a nose? So it really IS Rod Stewart and Matt?

keen to know how much this non-refundable deposit was. wonder if it was like the old fizzy pop bottles.

uh-oh. ground share... NOT

I hope the Pin bit of Pinnacle is Pini Zahavi The 'le' bit at the end is of course our Matt No idea who nac is.

21 days takes us to another Friday...are they doing this on purpose? ps cheers pancake

Thought he was sole administrator. Probably my bad.

yup. 21 days to sell the club now to them. Beats 48 hours...

i think I'm going to have some bubbly tonight

since when was Fry the joint administrator?

I really, really hope they have the dosh.

Pinnacle out!

Hopefully not with Conrad Black. I suppose Roger would be more like it given his Southampton connections.

No, I don't believe it either. Would be interesting to see if Fry has had previous dealings with 'mystery' bidders who emerge late on in proceedings in previous administration campaigns.

Fratton Park holds 20,000.

Several million? I would wager that clubs sniffing around a player like Drew who currently plies his trade for a club on the verge of liquidation would offer considerably less than what he is 'worth'. I know what you mean about losing the quality - I felt the same at the precise point of the beginning of our descent - when we sold Bridge - but I'm afraid Drew's style (pretty lightweight) will not go very far IMHO. Still, it might be that he just needs a change, like so many players that get sucked into the Lowe-pit that is SFC.

Black and gold - team lotus/John Player Special. Founder Colin Chapman? (I think)

Might the black and gold be the Wolves connection? David Gold is also small though, and the 'hovering' made me think of his helicopter. PS all this delaying and false deadlines might very well be an aid to an investor forcing the price down.

What's humour got to do with the posts on here about leprechaums (sic) and so on?

Er...I didn't. Perhaps you could show me where I've even mentioned him?

If there was one way of turning off potential Irish investors it would be to offend them by resorting to cliches, stereotypes and mildly racist generalisations. Please stop it, Echo, and please stop it everyone else.