Ken Tone

And another. But do all football fans share the same views on wind farms? After all we all share the same politics on here !

They've already bent the original loan conditions. PCC seem to be relying now on a promise that they will get first dibs on the parachute payments, to allow their loan to be repaid within a few months (whilst others wait for sometime-never). It is true btw that there is a new company called 'south point finance' with a registered office in Upham , which I think is Robinson's base isn't it? I really can't see what Robinson's motives are , if they are not at least a bit sinister from PFC's point of view. Even if the other "HNWs" are genuine fans, he is not.

Interesting post (from one of us?) on the News site. Anyone know more about this? "Stuart Robinsons money is not a loan, its coming into the Club via a finance company he has just set up called South Point Finance. A £1 company by the way. The Club in return will pay off this agreement in monthly instalments. Robinson as security will take a debenture out on the ground. If the Club defaults on any payments he is entitled to repossess the ground and throw the team out. This is what happened at Rushden & Diamonds and it is suggested that the same nice gentlemen involved with that little deal are behind Stuart Robinsons scheme ! There is a big difference between a loan and a finance agreement ! I think you miss the point, all the PP payments are accounted for in repaying the PFA and £1.5 million outstanding transfer money to other Clubs, Trevor Birch has admitted this already ."

The classy thing to do would be to send him a 'with sympathy' card, saying that you remember how he went to all that trouble to ring you when Saints were down on their luck, and that whilst there is a real temptation for you to gloat as he did, things are SO bad at Portsmouth now that you just wanted him to know that you were thinking of him.

Lord Brian Mawhinney ...ex-chairman of the Conservative party, and of course ex-chairman of the Football League. Since he left they've got a lot softer, so it is hard to predict how the decision over the -10 will go. In his day there'd have been no doubt that it would be applied next season.

Robinson is lending them £1.2 million, as well as buying the land around Fratton -- all for the best of reasons obviously.

Everybody else

The obvious answer to the cost is to privatise the funeral. Sell advertising space on the route , tickets for the church, get a sponsor for the coffin, etc. that would be the Thatcherite 'free market' way of dealing with it.

Yes but Swansea weren't playing, so BWP's mate was free!

Well if Shaw isn't fit and if the papers are right that Fox is injured, we may not have much choice. Don't know how Forren would be but if we are without a LB , I'd play Clyne on the left and Maya at RB.

Should be no problem. As it is I usually confine myself to a polite "Excuse me referee, are you absolutely certain that was the correct decision? Might you possibly reconsider ?" Honest

Surely that is only becaue the £1.2 million loan from robinson was to the PST, as was the council's £1.45 million loan, so ,with their own £1.4 million, they have more money than the HNWs are putting in .... But only because of the "no debt" !

Do we know that? how much?

Judd contradicts 'chief sports reporter' Allen! Careful Emma or he'll ban you !

A power cut? Did they not pay the leccy bill?

Thanks. Suppose I could have googled that myself! Sounds as if at least some of the details will remain clouded in secrecy then ....such as how much Chainrai will eventually get?

What did Emma Judd mean by her corrected tweet about Tomlin?

Pony and trap distance!! Is that a pompey pikey reference?

doing my best

So the hearing is now going ahead, even with an out of court deal imminent?

I don't really begrudge them their moment. After all, it will be pretty dismal from now on. The stark reality of L2 and no money will gradually sink in.

Somehow the word "plucky" isn't the first to come to mind

There is one for the Hillsborough anniversary already planned for the Reading v Liverpool game, which makes Madejski's comments even sillier. Does he want two separate silences? Or a combined one?!

Apparently 'the Cock and Bull' was already full of Trust members

Possibly. an expensive way of doing it though, to wait until the case is actually using up high court time. Those judges don't come cheap!