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To be fair BP does stand for British Petrolium.

The top looks OK on its own but with white shorts and black socks the kit as a whole doesn't look great. The retro idea is sound but if we wore white shirts, white shorts and black socks 125 years ago it was probably because it's all they could get hold of, not because it looked good. I take it we're gonna have to sing "come on you whites" now?

That's because the news was already out in the public domain, Cortese threw a girly strop which is fair enough but banning them was pathetic. Even Rupert Lowe didn't stoop that low after all the **** the Echo threw at him (much much worse than anything Cortese has). Though he did sometimes release info after their print deadline. I would hate to have a local press under the control of the club, I think it's in everyone's interests if they are free to publish stories that Cortese might not like.

I'm pretty sure that's Cortese's attitude. He doesn't give a flying **** that many Saints fans like to read up to date info on the club in their local paper. In fact it doesn't appear that Cortese gives a **** about the fans at all.

I'm sure this happens at other clubs yet they seem capable of offering a payment plan. If the STs were released on time they would be more or less paid for by the time they were sent out anyway so a few chavs pulling a fast one wouldn't matter. There is no glossing over it, the way this ST thing has been handled has been a complete disaster. They would have had my cash in the bank long ago if t hey had done a March Madness, now with a recent change in my job security and the fact that they want £400 quid up front just as I get back from holiday they can go jump. Lowe managed to get me to part with my cash every year for a decade despite being a complete ****.

Mr Luker is not very good at explaining things is he.

If the club are worried about defaulters (I dont know why as they could have set it up so most money comes out before a ball is kicked) they could easily have just given renewals a chance to use the payment plan. Face it, now the club have a sugar daddy they don't need to give a **** about the fans. That's why they can chuck 15 grands worth of programmes in a skip on a whim and ban the local paper (some fans only source of news on the club) when the Chairman has a girly strop.

A credit card lending someone £400 is completely different to a football club sending a out a booklet and them paying for it in installments. One has risk the other has none.

I fail to see how buying on installments is being subsidised, if anything it gives the club the opportunity to make more money, it doesn't have to be interest free. Comparing installments to a credit card is ******, credit card companies take a risk in lending money. All the club are doing is sending out a booklet worth next to nothing, there is no risk. Whoever has organized these season tickets has made a complete mess of it, if they had done a March Madness they would already have the cash in the bank earning interest.

Take your heads out the sand, Dune has a point. If Cortese's PR is this bad when things are going well imagine what they will be like when things are going bad. Luckily PR is not that important, as long as things are right on the pitch nothing else matters at a football club, hopefully Cortese is better than Lowe in this dept.

If money is so tight why are they ditching the shirt sponsor? IMO it's nothing to do with costs, more about not needing to give a flying **** what the fans want now there's a sugar daddy.

You have to wonder what sort of ****-wits work at SFC. People liked the instalments thing because it's easy, they could easily have added the costs on. ****ing dickheads.

This is particularly well put... "The more you scrutinise football, the more you have a sense of the global finance “system” before it crashed, the more you see Portsmouth as Northern Rock — and the more you realise that, when the time for bailout is finally acknowledged, it will again be you and I who have to pay for the bailing. It was us — Revenue & Customs — upon whom Portsmouth welched. Football should be ashamed." Not only will they get away with it but the money they used to fund their grotesque overspending came out of the pay packets of you and I.

Winner: Holland Runner Up: Italy Underachievers: Spain Overachievers: Ivory Coast England will go out: Last 16 Best player: Robben

It is weird, you would have thought the club would want the money in the bank as soon as possible. Also you would think the longer they are on sale the more they would sell, the feel good factor from the Wembley trip would have shifted a few, there is now a chance of some people losing interest and choosing to spend their cash on something else. The only thing that would make sense is if they have a big 125 years promotion planned and announce ST sales at the same time as a Keegan type signing. You always get some mongs who que up overnight etc - looks good in the media.

Also remember this time last year Pompey thought they had landed another billionaire and were talking about pushing for a Champions League place.

England are rubbish, and barring one competition that was at home, always have been. Every World Cup we get the same mongs who think we will win it, but they are deluded if they think we have anything more than an outside chance. The problem is people get a distorted view of how good we are because of the riches and fame of the English game. Portugal, Korea Republic, Holland, Turkey, Croatia, Bulgaria & Sweden have all reached the last 4 more recently than England.

That's actually the opposite to how Le Tiss took them. He always side-footed it with his instep and kept half an eye of the keeper. If he saw the keeper move to the side he planned he could change the angle of his foot at the last minute. If the keeper hadn't moved he would hit it to the planned side knowing he could make the ball get there before the keeper. If you decide where to kick it before hand and don't change your mind you make it more of a lottery. But obviously few of the current England team have the skill of Le Tiss, and would his technique work for a player with less skill under the pressure of a World Cup - probably not.

I'm sure Ken Bates will be in a forgiving mood if the cheats blow off their creditors without any penalty then look like challenging Leeds for a play-off spot.

I think they resent us for being forced to use our language.

Driving a 4x4 is the same as walking around with "I'm a c@nt" written on your forehead.

This David Lampitt thing is weird, why would the FA's Head of Integrity want to be associated with that cesspit of corruption? It could be something to do with Dave Richards and the Thaksin Shinawatra thing that the Sun exposed last summer. My guess is that the F.A. threatened to throw the book at Pompey but couldn't because Storrie can prove that the F.A. knew it was Gaydamak's money being laundered the whole time. Now they have reached a compromise, everyone keeps their gob shut on the condition that the FA can send their man to pompey to clear the whole mess up.

All the decent pubs in my area (Bursledon) have turned into gloryfied Beefeaters. I think it's a combination of the brewerys stitching them up on the beer prices, tax and the supermarkets' lost leaders which means the traditional pub can't make any money. The smoking ban has ruined them as well, most people would rather run a small risk of lung cancer than sit next to some screaming snot nosed kid.

"In a groundbreaking move, the club is this month expected to enter into a Company Voluntary Arrangement with a secondary plan to place the club in liquidation some nine months after the CVA has been approved by creditors. Entering liquidation will then give liquidators the power to fully investigate how the club found itself facing financial demise. The process will involve moving key assets such as FA membership, players, and image rights – essentially the “business of football” – to a new company next year. CVA payments will be paid from the new company to the creditors of the old business." Surely this means that PFC are liquidated in March next year, that's how I read it.