Ken Tone

+1 Sod flags. I want to see the match. K.

Welcome to my world. Haven't got worked up over England games for years, and certainly care far, far less about england's results than saints'. Will watch world cup games on telly but may well have a good book on my knee at the same time! (Definitely not John Terry's autobiography.) K.

Yeah. My wife always said he was just too damn ugly to play for saints. Ah the memories ..... " Head it DOWN Dowie! " ..shouted at the Dell nearly as often as "FORWARD Magilton" K.

From where I was I could also hear an occasional 'when the town go marching in', which is not just cringeworthy -- it's plain stupid -- because of course every time, saints fans joined in and drowned it. There aren't many teams who are stupid enough to try to sing a version of 'when the saints' at st mary's K.

Even a muddy pitch usually has some grass on the wings, so if Adam and Jase do stay out wide they'll be ok. K.

He also said before the game that we'd sold 34,500 wembley tickets , and then at half time he said 38,500. Selling 4000 tickets during the first half was pretty good going I thought. Well done the ticket office. Now was that by phone, or on line? But after last night I'm prepared to forgive even him. Beginning to think Cloud 9 really exists. K.

"There's only one and a half Oxlade-Chamberlains" ? Too long a name for 'only one' after all. He could be a useful addition to the team if we want to waste time towards the end of a game. All he'd have to do is commit a bad foul and be booked in the 87th, 88th and 89th minutes ... game nearly over. K.

Funny how we all see different things at games. Personally I thought it was Llallana, not Lambert, who needed more protection last night. K.

Braaaa-zil. It's just like watching Bra-zil! Thought Walsall was the best performance I'd seen from a saints team for years, then last night topped it. Huddersfield are no mugs as their brave attempt to get back into the game at the start of the second half showed, but we simply played them off the park. If only there were about 10 more games in the season we'd be up for sure. As it is ....who knows? Bloody big points gap between 7th and 8th, but at least that mean there aren't lots of teams all competing with us. We only need about 3 others to have a bit of a bad run, not 8 or 9 others Braaaa-zil. It's just like watching Bra-zil! K.

Is that all? I reckon last's night's team could pretty much be the L1 team of the week, complete. K.

"Matthew: Judge Alastair Norris said there is a shadow over the administration that must be removed" That would worry me if I wer one of the blue few K.

Unless you are referring to whatever the family trouble is (about which I know nothing), then no. This whole non-story was whipped up by Radio Solent. I got back to the car radio just in time to hear the last sentence or so of the radio interview, then was gobmsacked and worried to hear the radio bods wittering on about how abrupt and miserable Pardew had been. When they re-played the interview just before 6pm, I wondered what all the fuss was about. Added to that was someone saying they'd seen Pardew leaving the ground at about 5.12 with a face like thunder. Big deal! Interviewer made some daft comment like "and we even had the fans chanting the manager's name" as if this was something extraordinary, which would have ****ed me off too if I'd been Pardew. And *if* he did leave with a face like thunder, I imagine he has a well-practised, "don't approach me" face whenever he tries to make his way through a departing football crowd. K.

Trouble is players can look good one season and crap the next, and even vice versa. Gillett looked indispensable at one time last season for example, and where is he now? But if they keep their form, I'd see: Davis, Harding, Fonte, Llallana, Puncheon, Lambert for certain , and 1 or 2 of Schneiderlin, Hammond, Barnard, or James as CCC players Jaidi I suspect will be on the way down by then....33? 34? Otsemobor is certainly playing well enough now, but will it last? If he really is that good consistently, why did Norwich let him go? Antonio has the raw talent and may develop or may not. So in short we do already have the basis of a CCC team IMO. K.

"To be fair, Adam", he might tie one boot, but he really needs a second boot soon. ;-) K.

Strange. I thought he was definitely right-footed. K.

Yes I understand how the law applies to unsecured creditors and that HMRC are, since 2002, just in the queue with everyone else. What I don't know is why, and by what right, football creditors come first in the queue, and whether HMRC and others are able to challenge that preferential treatment for football creditors. Who says the players and other clubs waiting for transfer money should be paid in full before other creditors? If it is merely a condition of continued membership of the premiership or football league, so what? Why can't HMRC etc challenge that? The point of all this is, in effect, is there any chance of Pompey not being accepted into the football league next season? K.

+1 k.

Can anyone explain to me WHY football creditors take precedence over others? (So the players and other clubs get paid whilst the poor local businesses that are owed money don't) I presume this an FA rule, as a condition of membership of the league(s) ? Surely there is no legal reason for it? Why are the other creditors required to accept this if so? Could HMRC etc challenge this legally? K.

Yes but I think she in her mind is answering the question, "will the administrator break the club up completely, close it and and sell off the goal posts, training kit etc, not "will s/he sell off all your best players? ", which of course the administrator will do. The admooistrator won't break the club up completely except as a last resort if/when they can't find a buyer for a club as a whole. Btw I see Storrie is now offering to stay on, with a pay cut! Says his reported £1.4 million salary is only about half that in 'basic' wage ..the rest came in bonuses for selling players! The mind just boggles. How much more does he want to bleed from that club? K.

A good question and answer page on the pompey paper's web-site if anyone wants clarity from an objective third party. Answers from the firm that were our adminstrators http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/pompeyinvestigation/Questions-and-Answers-on-administration.6098944.jp K.

Tut, tut. Suspect you mean 119 degress and 34 minutes? 34 radians is more than 5 full circles, approx 1948 degrees. It's important we keep up the standards of intellectual superiority over the blue few ;-) K.

Not for certain but that is my memory of how/why Luton etc got treated so badly by the FL. So it will be -9 now because earliy enough , and then anythingnext season will dpend on how admin has gone. Can't see HMRC wanting to agree to anything as a creditor, other than full payment. K.

Pompey were paying 90% of income in wages at one stage. Don't know if that was just 'wages' or all payments to players etc. For example I suspect that Utaka's plaintive cry that he only gets £28k a week wages overlooks his 'image rights', playing bonuses, etc which may well bring him closer to the publicised £80k a week than he'd like to admit. Either way it was simply crazy of pompey to pay so much, and other clubs get sucked into trying to compete , also paying more than they can afford. k.

Agree in principle with what you say, but it's the wages that have crippled pompey not long term transfer fees on the never never. Have you seen David James saying that the players' bonuses for winning the Cup were bigger than the money the club made from winning it? Crazy. The FA has to introduce some sort of wage cap. Can't be on individual wages legally ,but could be a rule for membership of league that your total wage bill did not exceed say 60% of total income. K.

Amazed to see myself writing this about the Daily Mail, but they seem to have a pretty good summary later in that article. Chainrai's move to sell himself the ground and lease it back for £1 million a year is clearly a ruse to protect himself as they go into administration. Otherwise he'd just be another creditor/shareholder and would lose most of his money. Admin very soon IMO, then the question becomes will the premiership help them find a compromise with HMRC? If not, even if they avoid actual winding up, pompey could find themselves still in admin at the start of next season, with no agreement with creditors and maybe facing a further points deduction from the league on top of the, surely now inevitable, -9 from the premiership this season. The administrator might then say that the lease on fratton park is too dear, and threaten to move them elsewhere, eg to Havant and Waterlooville's ground. There's months of fun in this still! K.