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I wonder if this is actually true.... "Image rights and VAT reclaiming from fees paid to agents are the main areas of interest. In the case against Pompey the taxman is claiming £13,293,651.72 for just this type of evasion. Stupidly it seems that the almost unknown players involved in this are players like Tal Ben Haim,John Utaka and Lauren. For the same period of time it is estimated that Manchester United, which is one of the biggest clubs in the world, would have a bill worth approximately £5.3 million. United can probably claim that the £760,000 they pay Wayne Rooney every six month is worth the expence. But how do Pompey justify £1.7 million that they are supposedly still owing Sol Cambell." Surely if the numbers don't add up re:Image rights then it is a simple case of tax evasion.

That's it's appeal, it reminds the colonies or our superiority. It also reinforces the fact that Wales and Scotland are just conveniently placed pieces of land that England chooses to own.

I don't think you can have a legal right to appeal - then be sued because you made an appeal.

The Football League/FA must be well chuffed with Pompey. Hopefully they will look to make an example of the cheats, just like HRMC are.

I thought if the creditors accept it you get a CVA, if they don't accept it you don't get a CVA and get the -17 but you exit admin on your terms - that's why the points penalty is there, to stop people blowing off debt like Leicester did.

But once he buys it out of admin it will be debt free. I expect there will still be some parachutes left after the footie debt is paid off. He will own a debt free club, the ground and I expect (after a deal with gaydamak) all the land round it. He will easly find a buyer.

Surely Chanrai would be better off buying without a CVA anyway. Pay 1p in the pound, hang on until this time next year, pocket the rest of the parachutes and sell up. Wether pompey get -17 and go down or not wont make a huge difference to him.

Excellent stuff! The irregular South Coast weather continues, this time the experts predicts months of glorious warm summer sunshine in Southampton and -17 in Portsmouth.

Think that's what they did with Leeds.

I have no doubt that if Saints have a good season Cortese's plan of having fewer Season Ticket holders will make the club more money. No Saints fan under 40 has a clue what it's like to be at the top of the league, I think a lot of people will be surprised at the size of our crowds IF we run away with the league. Don't forget, we effortlessly sold close to 50K tickets for the country's least glamourous cup final against one of the country's least glamourous teams. Just because we might make more money doesn't make the way the fans have been treated is right though.

Cortese is right in what he says IMO. The FL League have just bent over and took it us the arse. These larger parachutes are going to make the Championship as dull and pointless as the Prem - football in this country is ****ed up.

I think the cup runs last year definitely cost us a few points so I would put the youth team out for the JPT.

You have just proved my point. Mandric was the person who sold pompey to a criminal - yet Sasha is the one who's getting all the bad PR. All Milan did is sell the club in good faith. Marcus could do exactly the same.

He could sell to anyone, Gaydamak, Chanrai or Gadafi's son - it would be the people who he sold it to who would have any bad PR if the club then went bankrupt - it wouldn't make the slightest difference to Leibherr's name.

He's a businessman, he would sell to whoever offered the most money - it's that simple.

To say he has done brilliant is complete nonsense. If he had done brilliant we would be in the Championship having sold 20K season tickets.

Have they announced Season Ticket numbers yet?

He appears to have played a big part in getting Leibherr to buy the club so he has to take credit for that. As for his ability to run a football club - the jury is definitely out. On the important side - the pitch, when you have a billionaire in charge it's just a case of finding the right manager and everything else falls into place. Pardew has done OK, this season will be the test. Off the pitch he has already made plenty of ****-ups, but he is still learning the ropes and hopefully will improve. My gut feeling is that he won't be around for long.

Exactly, you can't ID the ****ers when all you can see is their eyebrows.

Glad they banned them, I don't see it as a human rights issue because many women are forced to wear them by their Muslim husbands who don't give a monkeys about human rights.

I thought facebook messages can only be read by friends, so as such it is a private conversation? Surely you can't be sacked for something you say in a private conversation out of work. It might be worth seeing if there are grounds for unfair dismissal.

I guess we wont be seeing FMPR round here for a while then.

The good news is the Conservatives are bringing in a £400 weekly limit on housing benefit next April so it should put a stop to cases like this.

How can handing out million pound houses to asylum seekers not be anything to do with asylum - you are talking rubbish as usual. Of course the main issue here is our screwed up benefits system, there is also a quite obvious asylum issue. Any potential economic migrant can read that and know that if they are lucky enough to make it to England and tell the right stories they could end up in a million pound house. Also not all benefit claimers are "Wayne and Waynettas" as you put it, there might be some severely disabled English person who's family have been paying tax for generations that quite fancy moving out of their run down council flat into a plush Chelsea pad. Or someone who has paid tax for decades but has been made redundant. You have to question if these people are even genuine asylum seekers. You would have thought people who have been saved by us from certain death would show a little more gratitude.

They usually do it at the last minute. I don't think they will this time though, the crooks down the road have been one step ahead of the taxman at every turn. Chanrai will just say agree a CVA or I pull out and you get nothing.