Ken Tone

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!

Meanwhile his News colleague Emma Judd has done just that .... "Mr Justice Peter Smith agreed to delay the start until 2pm amid indications that the parties involved in the High Court action were discussing a last-minute deal" http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/sport/pompey/delayed-start-in-pompey-court-hearing-1-4981207

It's very unlikely now that the case will finish until tomorrow, and then there is a fair chance the judge will take a few days to 'reflect' and write up his decision. Maybe the dream (but unlikely) scenario for the FL is that he decides in favour of chainrai , but only makes his decision public just after their final league fixture, so they go out of business but all their results this season can stand. Personally my dream is still that they start next season in L2 on -10 and skint

Mordaunt will leave as soon as she's been in enough photos. It's all about publicity for her