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Years ago I was researching finance in football, went off on a tangent and I started looking at grey sources and read in some detail about the global transfer market and how it is essentially one big money and people laundering scheme. It starts off with agents buying hundreds of south American kids at a time, as they can own their registrations outright over there. These players are filtered to knock off the least talented, then those that make the grade are sent off to middle East, Asia, eastern Europe, Russia etc. Transfers and loans will occur constantly throughout these young players careers, all for the purpose of moving money about. Some players that develop real potential are then moved on to western Europe, starting in the lower profile leagues and eventually through to the big time and big money. Harry Redknapp, Peter Storrie et al are just small fish in the system.

LOL, no its not particularly ideal! I enjoy using the facilities at SMS and it always cheers me up when the hot water flows through the taps, fat in the pipes I think to myself. One toilet to 900+ people. Unisex I assume, imagine the carnage if some bloke decides to sit down for an extended stay! PMSL, literally, in the milton end!

LOL, as the mong board community says, hes good at what he does. I have to say, this has been YOUR best transfer window too. You have had your finger on the pulse all the way through, its almost like you have the dons office bugged with the insider info you have shared with us all. I have genuinely lost sleep having waited with baited breath for you next insight into whats going on at SFC. To the king of ITK, I repeat your shout, "" THANK YOU GLASGOW ""

How many of our 125 year sash anniversary shirts did we sell, 20,000 odd (MLG to action please)? That 10k revenue will pay for Connellys three match suspension wage, any shortfall can be made up by blagging some kids pocket money. Does DCs heroic suspension kick in for cup games etc? JPT round one tonight, away to Torquay for the skates. Will they get into the spirit of the competition or continue to mock it in spite of our successes when we were eligable? I suspect the latter, if they were to progress to the final they would have to fill Wembley with the bestest which could be embarrassing. It would take a mighty river of hope to find 51k of southsea commons finest, with no corporates to sell all those plucky empty seats in the JPT!

£8m? Personally, I would opt for Lennon if we were to have a choice between the two, he is 26 y.o so not too old for our buying strategy, being completely proven in this league is a big plus for me with the season now underway. ive always been a fan of his play at spurs and I think he would suit our pressing game. Maybe we could once again sell out on any Bale transfer income, they may even have a keeper to throw into the mix!

He really has been hammering that open bar.. Hungover?

Classic, PMSL! play up the shrimps

LOL, looks like #factless has been mugged off again! Cry my a river of hope Neil, that is priceless! Have another look at the lovely Kora (no more than ten seconds, don't want to turn to stone), then read the #factless piece once more, it is hilarious, he has been completely conned as have the skates!: http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/opinion/the-seven-year-old-who-helped-save-pompey-1-5421121 LOL, fitting they are called the Blagdens.. I love how characters like this keep emerging throughout this wonderful pompey saga.

Amen, it has kept the great warrior Turkish occupied too, he has had a good feed from this thread.. Top effort from all, it has been a thoroughly amusing read. I might try a hot dog one day on the back of this thread, though I doubt I will be procuring a pasty based on the damming comments found here. Being all nostalgic, I remember being absolutely sh*t-faced one game in the championship, me and my mate each bought a couple of cheeseburgers at HT in the Kingsland corner; cold, dreadful cardboard in between a bun made out of a shoe, I have to say it was perfect at the time, de-licious.

Kitson and the boys can sit back knowing they have a charge on fatpipes, the skates have to service these debts just like they serviced Chinnys debts... oh. Lampitt did well to get himself onto a super creditor status and get the hell out with his bundles of cash.. poor old Kitson and the lot may end up in the fight over the scrap value of fatpipes post liquidation. The Lampitt and Cotteril legacy of quality over quantity lives on, with their legally binding charges securing that legacy for many years to come. Though I must say, I do miss old Chinny. On a point of nostalgia, I cant seem to find any update on what happened to Vladimir Antonovs extradition case, the hearing should have been in July. His twitter account mentions Mr. Mendeleev, attached to this report (No news articles on Sergey Mendeleev on google): https://twitter.com/vladantonov1975 http://www.delfi.lv/biznes/finances/kpmg-baltics-dokumenty-kotorye-priveli-k-bankrotstvu-krajbanka-ne-byli-poddelnymi.d?id=43323291 I am interested to know what happened in this story!

Whatever it was, its given me a yeast infection.

Having been flat out all morning, getting caught up in loads of traffic before the game, going straight to SMS as a result and not finding an opportunity to eat all day, I decided to fill my fat bloated greedy gob with a pukka pie at HT. I was heading up to Wales straight after the game with a race against the clock, so the fifteen minute window seemed like a good opportunity to fill my gut full of pie. People use the service, for all number of reasons... I dont understand your frustration here, it was not long ago you were crying like a little b*tch, throwing your toys all over the place, because you thought your old man had been mistreated or let down by SMS. Why are you so inconsiderate towards other fellow fans hissy fits when you wanted a dignified and fair consideration of your own little hissy fit? It was a sh*t pie FWIW.

lol

Interesting! In other news, not everyone is happy about the PDT Tesco deal, would be funny if it collapsed: http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/news/business/local-business/hundreds-sign-petition-against-plans-for-tesco-1-5401345

Was he a fudge packer or something? LOL, something along those lines, just use your imagination, have a sing song at St.Fairies on Saturday!

Its OK, we just have to become a little smarter with our homophobic chanting IMO. We are blessed with a language that lets us express ourselves in a variety of ways. Im sure we can come up with some great songs, that have no homophobic remarks or inferences, just ambiguity and laughter.

In the past the would run up huge PAYE an NI bills, then simply not bother to pay them, (inc all the VAT too) HMRC valued the tax write offs at £37m IIRC. Now, in the new era of transparency, they openly boast that they dont even bother to pay people a wage, as they have jumped on the free slave labour bandwagon. In fairness they are no different to the likes of poundland who who are also exploiting vulnerable people. Its a pretty poor state of affairs as these poor chumps are supposed to be getting work experience and skills so they can hopefully obtain some meaningful paid work going forward. As with poundland just getting free shelf stackers, the skates are using these poor souls to do cleaning and painting some walls, that is not beneficial to the individuals and is nothing more than a cost saving exercise and exploitation by the skates.. Give people some rewarding tasks and train people to do things, work with the groundsmen, the media dept, finance office.. not trying to pump the fat out of the f*cking pipes! community club my a*se

I was treated as though I was a rude customer in a pub just the other day for not taking part in some stupid pointless jovial larky lardy daa conversation with a barwoman and her loyal drunken punters who sit at her bar. I will say 'may I..., please, thank you, thank you' but I dont see why I should be subjected to, or have to participate in some dumb meaningless conversation and that by implication im rude if I dont show/feign any interest whatsoever, w*nkers. People with dogs have to accept a lower quality of hygene in their lives, living with animals that eat/roll in/lick sh*t, but that dosent mean you or your child should have to, and nor should I. I have lost a few nice shirts over the years from peoples dogs jumping up at me and ripping them/staining them, no offer of a replacement, ever. Train conductors Train tickets Women buying anything, not even opening the handbag before the counter, before the minute of fumbling to find a purse, for another minute to pluck out coins, then to do the reverse with change whilst not getting out of the way of the poor souls behind. People who are on a first name basis at coffee shops Coffee shops pap Courier companies Receiving past owners mail Wet bin handles on bin day Grammarians Scouse accent Brum accent Potholes The under-aspiring-underclass Facebook Non-working Mums pretending they have busy and hard lives Poor water pressure Walking behind somebody smoking Gmail web client Incompetent collegues and business partners, who I have to tollerate Glasgow_Saint Constantly changing electronic fuel gauges Slow accelerators People who place luggage on a spare train seat whilst watching others stand Eating smelly food on a train Eating food on a train that lasts no longer than an hour or so Middle aged women at football who dont get it at all Middle aged, middle class, pretentious, all knowing, ever happy, meaningless lives yet thinking they are superior housewives, ladies that f*cking lunch Pretending my boss is a nice, funny and interesting person The Metro Chuggers Eastern block pub beggars Alcohol poisoning Slow walkers SWF etc

It would be nice to have a professional firm running the bookmaking at SMS, rather than that noddy skate outfit (although it is nice taking money off of them).

http://www.portsmouthfc.co.uk/news/article/appear-in-pompeys-team-photo-1004892.aspx In fairness (in light of the footymad comments!), that would be a pretty special present for a youngster... although eating a heavily controlled and nutritional meal might not be as fun as a burger and chips! My favourite part of the article: It always amuses me how they state in clear terms the VAT element, when selling products to the general public, who always pay VAT as standard. Its almost as if HMRC have told them they have to declare everything in no uncertain terms... that or the novelty of this newly discovered VAT business is yet to wear off.

Whilst it is bittersweet for us Saints fans, AOC is getting good money and I doubt he will be too worried. Mind you, if this continues for the remainder of his Arsenal contract, he may end up on the Wenger yoof scrap heap and he would of been financially better off with a professional career at Saints. That said, I hope his greedy old man reads this article, he has whored off his son under Corteses Eterna watch, and now everyone knows the consequences his underhand manoeuvres. Well done to the Don and LOL at Arsenal.

I hope youre wrong, it was unbearable, I had to leave the room when he started squealing... didnt listen to the half time analysis and changed over straight after the game to avoid JC.

My thoughts on violence? FOAD, c*nt.

A shame IMO, that will be reminiscent of a smahed cornish pasty by the time she resurfaces... Like others have said, if they were male (of the similar age), we wouldnt have heard anything, Lima on its own averages a mule a day, that they catch.. It looks like they got caught up in the party life and got too close to the dealers, who would see them as nothing but expendable. They wouldnt have had to kidnap white western girls (especially British ones with our media) to be mules, no way. I like the theory of the double cross by the dealers... whilst the two girls were getting busted, the real mules and smugglers slipped through (though £1.5m seems a bit of a punt? I supose its worthless until it gets to market). I also suspect the girls thought it would be 1kg (when being sold the dream 'you can live in Ibiza forever/set for life in the sun' & calculating their risk), not ten times that amount.. Good luck to them.

#factless will be penning his article as we speak, the pompey lad come good, proud moment for portsea etc, a five hundred paragraph, five hundred sentence story with not a single mention to Saints!