Ken Tone

Shouldn't this post have been on the Pompey takeover thread?

Sort of both. I believe Luton were deducted 10 points in L1 in the season they were relegated to L2, then another 20 over the summer, and started their L2 season on -30 because the first 10 came after relegation was certain, much like our 10 point deduction was applied the following season. Bear in mind that Luton had been on the top division (can't remember if it was already called the premier league then) only about 2 or 3 years before that. They were not much smaller or lower profile as a club than Portsmouth are now. IF the FL decide that any points deduction is deserved, I don't see how they could only take off 10. The comparison with Luton is pretty strong if they treat the club itself as effectively being in administration. In any event if the club runs out of money in the New Year as predicted, surely it will itself have to go into liquidation/administration anyway, and the fine distinction between it and CSI will be immaterial.

Pedant put down! Actually that is the correct spelling when referring to as gift or something that is included 'free' in such a package. It derives from the sense of being given as a compliment. 'Complementary', the word you have presumably confused with 'complimentary', refers to going together to make a whole. Where the two are frequently misused is when football reporters talk of 2 players 'complimenting' each other, when they mean 'complementing'. Now, as for the Guardian using 'affect' in that Pompey article linked above, when they mean 'effect', that really is appalling!

He didn't just make one mistake leading to a goal. He was **** poor throughout the game, which meant our defence lost confidence in him, avoiding pasing back when they should etc ..and his kicking when he had the ball was shockingly poor , so he gave possession away many times. His play affected the whole game. Having said that, if he is best we've got on Sunday of opurse we should back him, and he has played well in the past so maybe it'll be ok.

I think you're probably right in that I can't see any simple points deduction soon. However if/once their money really runs out, which it will without another buyer given they are paying out more than they earn, just about anything could happen. Just look at what the FL did to Luton, and Chester to some extent. In effect Luton as a full-time professional club was destroyed by the League's punishments.

Indeed, 'Marching On Together ' is a (the) Leeds song. But Spurs fans have sung 'Marching In' for many many years. And btw OP, it was the Stoke fans who were singing it so well and loud on the tv this weekend, not the away Spurs fans.

Unfortunately none of them seem to be connected with a club near relegation this year, so they'll no incentive to deduct points! .... not vested enough!

I tried to book 2 together near where we have season tickets, but could only get 2 singles reasonably close or 2 together on very back row a block over from where we sit, half way up -- and this was at least a week ago. So even allowing for the fact that the Chapel end half of the Kingsland where we sit has so many s/t holders, so has fewer 'casuals' than most areas, it looks to me as if it is selling fast. I'd not leave it much longer if you want to get seats other than singletons.

Mercer is a git in spite of being right about Cameron, but appears to be just the sort of right wing old school Tory that our UKIP-loving, Mail, Express and Sun-reading, friends on here would normally support. He is also quite a successful author, whose books I enjoy, but feel slightly soiled, reading! Funny old world, ain't it?

You buy the Sun as well as the Express? Blimey -- jobseekers' allowance goes a long way nowadays doesn't it!

The thing is, with a club in the state Portsmouth is, there surely can be no sensible, rational, legal, reason to buy it. Whilst I would not of course to want to cast aspersions on any individuals associated with this situation, past or present, personally I can see no reason to buy Portsmouth FC unless I had say £100 million of funny money that I needed to launder. To spend £100 million on a football club and get back say £50 million a year or two later, makes no sense in the normal world, but if that £50 millon is then 'clean' and spendable, it is worth more to said individual than £100 million in dirty money. Unless there is some nutty, rich, genuine portsmouth fan out there, who else but a crook would want to buy them now?

But Dune, it's only a short time since you were on here extolling the virtues of the Daily Express, and it's papers like that - the red tops, not the decent papers - that publish these stories. If people made it clear that they didn't want to read such irrelevant stories and stopped buying those papers, they would stop writing them.

exaclty. This was just like an estate agent saying Portsdmouth is a desirable area to live in.

That does tend to focus the attention somewhat! But I take it that for now I can just leave this year's batch(es) until we want to drink it, then strain/decant.

I see that as usual Dune and Turkish have turned this threads into their usual troll fest , but to return to the OP's point. Gove has chosen to spend nearly £400,000 sending a bible to each state school in the country, with a foreword written by him. Not only is this pointless because I think you'd struggle to find any normal state school in the country that has not already got plenty of copies of the bible, but it is also obviously just an ego trip by Gove. What he is actually trying to achieve is to have a copy of a book in every school with his name and his introductory burble, is to keep his name in thousands of children's minds for years to come. Quite Stalin-esque. If I were Osborne, I'd be wondering what similar trick I could pull to help my future campagn for the party leadership after Cameron goes. Maybe he could send every bank a copy of the regulations on credit cards, with a foreword by him, and insist it is displayed for the public to see? Why on earth should we taxpayers fund Gove's silly ideas and personal ambition ?

I once turned down a gazumping offer on the house I was selling, having given my word on the original price as I saw it. Gave me a warm moral glow, but it was a bloody expensive glow!

To be fair, I think even Portsmouth have more than one fan

I hadn't reailsed the window cleaning business was so buoyant ;-) Serious advice for the OP. It does, as others have said, depend on the business area. In my world, one, or two sides max, of A4. Longer and I won't get read past the first page or so anyway, so you're just wasting ink. Most recent stuff and most important stuff to sell yourself, first.... so it has a sporting chance of being read before the employer loses interest. Do clearly head sections on employment history, qualifications, etc. Personally I hate the 3rd person "Johnny is a top notch specialist in...." statements that many people use when describing themselves. You're writing about yourself, so use the first person, as far as I am concerned. But someone must teach people to do this because they are quite common. Maybe other employers like it? If it isn't just a speculative sending of a cv in vague hope, and you know there is a current vacancy, send a covering letter, again 1 or 2 sides of A4 only, that really addresses that specific job and how you could do it. Make sure there are no spelling or grammatical errors ...though note form is fine in factual sections. That is, no need to write in full sentences when just listing jobs or quailfications, but do write in full sentences when selling self in longer prose, and do break up long passages into paragraphs.

Yet another example of fans' being at different games'. from where I was in the kingsland the, yes relatively small, Hull contingent sang their little hearts out, whilst the Northam was seemed almost silent for the first half. Our fans only seemed to wake up at the start of the second half. I thought Hull looked one of the best teams we've seen at St Mary's this season, so at least we saw the same match on the pitch!

For me it was either no foul at all, or it was a red card for Kelvin. We'll all have our totally unbiased views on which! Giving a yellow card was a moral cowardice middle ground decsion by the ref that made no sense at all.

Yes he was awful, and Fonte was clearly outside the area, but Brighton seem happy to overlook the fact that even the unbiased BBC web site commentator thought we'd had 2 stone cold certain penalties not given before the one that was ..and another maybe later on. So overall they had reason to feel aggrieved.

Blimey! I'm actually starting to feel a bit sorry for some of the blue few. It all goes back to Mandaric letting Redknapp overspend then selling you down the river to whoever he could find to give him some of his money back really doesn't it? But you do have an alternative to waiting for yet another dodgy owner to come along and/or slow death. Why not start an 'FC of Portsmouth', like some disenchanted Man U fans did http://www.fc-utd.co.uk/home.php ? You could play at Havant's ground and try to work slowly back up the leagues.

So how do I tell when my batch is ready? Am 'brewing' 2 lots. Earlier one seems to be settled, but seems a bit sweet to me. Do the sloes continue to 'leak' flavour indefinitely, or is there a time when I should filter them off to avoid them spoiling or rotting in some way? Though I presume the alcohol preserves them pretty much indefinitely?

Just looked up the Express reader profile and 40% of its readers are over 65. Average age is 59. But to be fair to Dune, it has 58% ABC1 class readers as opposed to the overall population figure of 56% being ABC1. Mind you, of course that overall figure will include those who read no paper at all. So, making the reasonable assumption that those in the lowest affluent social groupings are less likely to read anything, let alone a paper, that is probably a lower social grouping than for newspapers as a whole, and must be much lower than for the broadsheets. The Telegraph reader profile for example is 87% ABC1,and I believe The Times profile is similar. http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:IxY1pB2u7RIJ:www.slideshare.net/mrsloan/express-audience-facts+daily+express+reader+profile&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk So basically reading the Express mostly says you are right wing, not particularly successful, and a bit past it. I suppose that might explain how Dune can spend so much of his life on here.

To be honest, actually it mostly just says you're not very bright and can't cope with long words or difficult concepts. Right wing is one thing, but only reading a red top is another. The Sun only requires a reading age of 11, and whilst The Express is admittedly a step up from that, it's not a very big step. Can't you manage The Telegraph or The Times?