Ken Tone

Maybe not, but I've often called him a first rate prat

I wonder how our 'friends' down at bournemouth feel about all this?

Moved to Lymington at the age of 16 and lived there ever since. Joined his friend, and then rival, Iain Percy at Peter Symonds College for the sixth form. Btw Foad also attended that college, so as someone pointed out in the local Winchester paper, if Peter Symonds had been a country it would have been 45th in the medal tabel --above India! .... and Ainslie himself has now asked the PO to paint a Lyminghton post box gold.

No ..their arithmetic is still wrong, even if we ignore the fact that all footballers' wages are usually quoted net of tax to try and hide from us poor mugs who effectively pay them just how ridiculously high they are, and for some reason they've decided to calculate his before tax. The net figure of 2 million euros a year is fractionally over £30k a week, and that is how footballers' wages are normally quoted. If you do add on tax, it still can't be more than double that.

Surely 2 million euros a year is more like £30k a week? Interesting to see he says 'net' though. Bloody footballers expect clubs to pay their tax for them, and all these obscenely high wages we see quoted are after tax is deducted (or not in the case of Portsmouth).

Genuine question -- is the deadline not later because it's a sunday ko rather than a saturday ko?

Well Adkins is setting a target of 12 points from the first 4 games , so I'm quietly confident!

Thanks for both of these george -- an intreresting read, and some good humour from some of them in reply to the "stuck in rivals' ground" question.

Value in a transaction/change of hands, so it could be an agreed amount when Chainrai and CSI did a deal. Bit like the notional value of a makeweight exchange player in a transfer deal

They've just had a parachute payment -- and it is already down to £3mill, presumably becasue some of it went straight out to pay some bills. The £3 mill is already spoken for of course, but that doesn't stop the News counting it twice. Interestingly £3 million would be more than enough to pay birch if he liquidated. How much of this will he allow to be spent before he pulls the plug? His bill is £1.8million, of which he's already had £400k? Will he risk all the balance of £1.6 million? That's a lot if he doesn't pay the ex-players anything.

Who do you think you are? ... coming on here with your common sense and reasonableness!

I thought post 131 showed an interesting mix of the new and the nostalgic, with its historical reference to a previous post and yet also its challenging 'zeitgeist', up to date, questioning. It is of course unfortunate that its later stages were a marred by a typographical error, but one feels that this did not greatly undermine its overall effect. Oh and whilst I'm here, does anyone know anything more about our chances of getting Phillips?

Quite. And is he planning to pay them out of the £3million parachute payments resting in their account? ('resting' as in the money that was resting in Father Ted's account?) If so that means less money to pay the compromise agreements with the players, so yet again they'll be spending money that is already spoken for.

The News seems to think they must avoid being in admin for more than year .. hence the 'the trust have got till december' bit. But I thought the rule was simply that the FL got cross if you started 2 seasons in admin?

Is Birch actually saying any of this , or is it just Appleton and Allen?

But, as andysstuff implies, the Trust surely don;t have time for that? If it took Birch all this time to get the players to agree to compromises that will cost £8 million, how easy wil it be for him to go back to them and say, "do a deal for 1/4 of what we agreed before?" Mean while the clock is ticking , and once the money that can be realised from liquidation is only just enough to pay birch's firm's bill ,he will surely liquidate? The big question is who will end up owning Fratton Park?

Portsmouth are winning on fouls though!

No. Because there is no club calledNotts Forest. It's Nottm Forest ,and Notts County (with acknowledge,ents to MLG)

To be fair,IMO, their natural realistic level given their support base ,ground, etc, without big outside investment is as a championship/L1 yo-yo club. With a good manager and some stability they ought to be able to live as an established championship club. I'd put them at the same sort of level as say Preston North End or Burnley -- a club wth a massive history, and lots of tradition, but never in the foreseeable future going to be an established premier league team. They might get odd moments in the sun, as have Burnley recently, but they won't last, unless they ever get a serious and genuine fan-owner like Blackburn did.

No. It's the Who. Yes are quite different.

Why didn't the Who play instead of the kaiser chiefs?

How do they avoid feedback with a massive sound system like this, in the round too?

Still time for the queen to parachute?

...err. ... Santana.

Santana at their closing ceremony?