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My guess is that the Arabs and Gaydamak are all in it together, Gaydamak tried to sell it but knew no one would be interested so is just using these guys as a front so he can asset strip what he can. I can't think of another reason why two potless Arabs would end up in this situation.

If all those countries are in debt, who do they owe the money to?

The scary thing for Pompey is the ground is secured on a loan to Chanrai who is business partners with an Israeli property developer. Also the land around it is still owned by Gaydamak. Could they actually want them to go pop so they can build something decent, like a car park, on Crap Nottarf?

You can fly to Amsterdam in an hour and a half.

So basically if The Arab doesn't want an administrator running the club and doesn't cough up what's owed there will be no Portsmouth FC as of the 10th Feb. Is that right?

How come with us it was one bounced cheque and Rupes is on the blower to Mr Admin whereas pompey seem harder to kill than that bad guy from Terminator 2? I don't remember HMRC or anyone issuing a winding up petition against us.

I think you get more if you have previously been in administration, Bournemouth had an additional -2 to their -15 last year. Have the Skates have been in admin before? If so they should hopefully get the same treatment, unless it's just a FL thing.

Cologne's Stadium cost 120million Euros. The Reebock (modeled on Huddersfield's ground) is over 4,000 seats smaller than SMS and cost more - £35mill. I think Bolton's current debt is around £64 million. Like I said, some teams have business plans and maximizing revenue is more important than creating something for architecture enthusiasts to wack one out over. When you are watching AFC Pompey at Havant and Waterlooville's shed you might come to appreciate that.

That's the sort of retarded nonsense I would expect from a Skate - the sort of answer that makes me look forward to your crappy little club going out of business. I can't believe you are too thick to understand why SMS and other modern stadia look like what they do. Are you really that simple? Do you think it looks how it does because: a: Football clubs up and down the country like a bland, generic look to their stadia. b: Some football clubs have to work within a strict budget and have no option but to build stadia as cost effective as possible to fit into their sustainable business plan. Try not to strain your inbred skate brain to hard thinking about an answer to that.

When the Mail writes that garbage it just renforces my opinion that the Chinese government are barbaric scum.

We all know Heroin is a nasty drug and the people responsible should be severely punished but the people who supply the drug are no more responsible for the deaths than the barman who sells the alcoholic booze or the shop that sells the cancer victim cigarettes (people in poverty use these vicious drugs also). If you shoot all drug smugglers then it's only fair you shoot all the drug dealers, traffickers, suppliers and users as well. If you are shooting people because of the deaths they might cause then drink driving and manslaughter must also be a capital offence. Most would consider selling drugs to not be as bad as raping, child abusing, GBH, ABH or armed robbery so those too must be capital offences. **** it, just shoot all criminals.

People who take drugs choose to do so out of their own free will, whilst smuggling Heroin is obviously a serious crime, the smuggler is not directly responsible for the deaths. Should drink drivers be shot? Or maybe people who sell alcohol or Tobacco - they are just as guilty of causing deaths as drug smugglers. If you kill people for drug smuggling you might as well just shoot all criminals.

The Chinese are ****ed up IMO, killing someone for murder is one thing but for drug smuggling I think it's wrong. Is life really that cheap in China?

Wont make any difference to us, we are not going to win the FA Cup, we might miss out on a bit of a pay day, that's it. Whereas picking up injuries and suspensions against Luton or having a tired squad for the next league game could cost us promotion.

I would rest the lot, not fussed about going out of the FA Cup.

It's vital we get back up for Lambert., if he gets injured it's season over.

Any real football clubs?

Scheiderlin has improved greatly under Pardew but to suggest he is better than Hammond is nonsense. He might have the potential to be but at the moment he's not even close. There are so many more things to being a good player than just having a good touch.

The thing is though no matter how bad their situation is facts are the council wont let anyone bulldoze fratton park if it meant portsmouth had no football club. There will always be at least 5-10 thousand people wanting to pay to watch football in portsmouth every other week - so there will always be a football club in portsmouth. Worst (best) case scenario would be AFC portsmouth in the Blue Square.

All this "cease to exist" stuff is nonsense. The very worst case scenario is they go into admin, get docked points and get bought out by someone. The same as what's happened to every other club that has gone into admin. That's why I wish them the worst, because that would be they end up where Luton is, which would be **** funny.

It's not hard to understand, I have no friends who are pompey fans. My opinion of portsmouth is formed mainly through my experience of: Watching a few thousand portsmouth fans shout insults during the minutes silence in respect to a recently deceased old man. Walking behind a line of Police whilst lots of portsmouth people fight with them, kicking police dogs and throwing bricks trying to get at me to fight with me. Standing in a crappy little stadium whilst lots of portsmouth people make cut throat gestures and sing about smashing my face in with a brick. I understand that not all pompey fans are bad people, but for the above reasons alone I will greet portsmouth FC going out of business with genuine delight.

It's a bit of a detor just to bang some Thai bird, especially when Tottenham is probably not short of tarts!

What percentage of scientists have to agree before you accept it as fact though? As it stands, if next year temperatures rocket and millions die in Africa, weather gets more and more extreme and half of the UK gets flooded - some people will continue saying it's natural, how can you prove otherwise? At some point you have to accept the scientific opinion, and virtually all the world's governments have done so despite the consequences being very expensive. Scientist are mainly in agreement that we are having an effect, there is obviously disagreements as to how much is human and there is very little consensus on what will happen in the future - that is the really scary part. If scientists like James Lovelock prove to be right then results could be catastrophic.

I would say that Norwich would be favourites to win the play-offs, even if we didn't have the 10 point deduction they would be 7 clear of us, even Colchester would be above us. Anyway it's not always the best team that wins the play-offs, they are a lottery, one dodgy penalty or daft own goal can mean season over.

Apart from owing millions to ex players, other clubs, agents, former owners, the inland revenue and various banks/loan sharks, the real worrying thing for Pompey is the fact that it looks like their ground is secured on a loan by a hong Kong businessman who is business partners with an Israeli property developer. And the land around it is owned by Gaydamak. It looks like PFC's only assets are a bunch of players they can't afford to pay (probably more of a liability than asset) and their Premier League status (LOL).