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It looks like one of the skates sees the truth now: http://mypompey.com/blogs/goldenboot/archive/2010/03/21/boot-portsmouth-find-legal-loophole-to-stay-in-premier-league.aspx '' PompyPride wrote re: LegalBoot:Portsmouth to issue injunction and test restraint of trade to stay in Premier League? on Tue, Mar 23 2010 10:57 AM why havent the loanees gone back? why havent the highest earning players been released? why havent the fat from the squad been trimmed by Andronikou? its pompys fault we're in this mess. not the PL, not the fans, not the players. pompy got punished for gross mis-management. you didnt see all the customers protest HMRC when woolworths went to the wall. football is just another business and us fans have no right to complain about the laws of the game and the land, when its the club thats p****d all over those same rules, signing players they (we) couldn't afford, paying the CEO a massive wage when he was probably taking backhanders etc. look at harry and pompys deals with spurs....that looks sooooo goddamn dodgy pompy need to stay quiet or we're gonna be hit by more and more deductions when all the truth hits the fan. just like luton. pompy is my club, i will support them until i die, but that doesnt mean i can turn a blind eye to all the illegal activities the club has done (not certain people, the club as a whole).''

When I was claiming about 8 years, I was put forward for all kinds of wierd and stupid jobs that I didn't have a hope in hell of doing. I said I wanted to work in the customer service area, helping people with problems and queries they had. So you'd expect the customer service desk at Asda, Sainsburys, etc. However, in the 12 months I claimed, I was put forward for (I kid you not): a welders job at an engineering firm a landscape gardener a sous chef (can't cook) a catalogue collecter (I didn't even drive at the time, so lugging 200 Avon-type books...no chance) The closest was a bookmaker, even though I didn't have a great grasp of numbers above 100 (mild dyslexia, not a problem but I don't like numbers). Anyway, after turning them all down and saying to each that I couldn't do them as I'd have been unsuitable, they put me on something called New Deal, where they placed me with an agency that would put me into a business locally (subsidsed by the government), I'd work for them and at the end of the placement, I had the option of staying with them if there was room, or come back to searching. If I didn't like it, I would have to walk away and have my claim stopped. As I was climbing the walls with boredom, I accepted, and got placed at a local DIY store. Now, remember I said I wanted customer service? I told the agency thats what I wanted, and they arranged it with the DIY shop that I'd be on the help desk....but when I got there, they said they only had room in the garden centre...great, I was a gardener, just like I turned down before. :confused: I tried to get that changed with the agency, but they said it would stop my claim if I left. So, I stuck with it, until the penny dropped that I was working from 8-4 Monday to Friday, for the standard claim which was £45.50 a week I think. That means the DIY store was getting an employee for a a couple of months, working his backside off, for the grand total of £1.14 an hour, and I was expected to carry on my search for work in my own time. And when I complained to the agency that it was like slave labour, that they were benefitting from, I was told that the options were: to be placed with another business (same £1.14 an hour wage), or walk away which would cancel my benefits. I walked. Luckily, I found work not too long after through a friend.

Will Chanrai be paying the wages? Also what exactly are the costs of Administration? i.e paying Mr Andrew but what else? Electricity/gas/water etc? Or would that be covered by the day-to-day running costs of the company?

I find veg abhorrent, so my sunday roast is normally Roast Pork with crackling Mash Yorkshire puds stuffing balls pigs in blankets (party sausages wrapped in bacon) roast potatoes thick gravy made from the pork juice, and an OXO cube. Normally that every week, with the meat changing to beef, lamb, turkey or chicken. Might try a three bird roast at some point.

I love this bit from The Times: ''The judgment said: “Mr Andronikou’s conduct in these proceedings, particularly in relation to evidence filed by him on behalf [of Ahmed and his family], was manifestly inappropriate.” The judge also found that Andronikou “did fail to meet the standard to be expected of a reasonably competent insolvency practitioner”.'' Incompetent in your line of work? Welcome to PFC.

I had us down for a 3-0 win yesterday when everone was predicting doom and gloom, a draw or us getting turned over. I wish I had the courage of my convictions and stuck some money on it.

Is it Dole Day?

3-0 win to us I think. Rickie, Barnyard and Daddy Waygo.

This. http://www.hullcityafc.net/page/NewsDetail/0,,10338~1996782,00.html

A friend of mine came back from Bavaro, Punta Cana last week, she loved the place and wants to go back at the end of the year.

Everyone doing bad puns in this thread should be charged with battery of the English language.

spamtastic.

Back on planet Earth...awesome stat. Did Markus feature on the Forbes Rich list 2010 too? I didn't see.

I can't help thinking that its a Darren Anderton/Jamie Redknapp/Michael Owen injury, in that if he recovers from it, it'll be waiting to go on him again and again until he hangs up his boots.

Congrats Mr and Mrs Cake. I'm sure he'll be a true Saint.

Once you've read Sickipedia, you've seen Frankie's material for the next 6 months. Not a funny man, and is the third Proclaimer.

ask if he was in a position to buy the club himself with his RnB millions.

I thought it was the away strikers what just randomly fell over? Maybe the crane dived. If it did - book it for simulation.

Getting ready for all the wrist slitters....oh wait, they're already here.

USF1 shuts its doors: http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/81819 Ken Anderson looking for USF1 2011 entry: http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/81820 Lopez ''slams USF1 team boss'': http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/81826

RIP Keith. A great character.

fan-tastic. can we get a run of games where we knock in 5 per match, like the 3-1's earlier this season?

Matt @ Snooze: ''Gregory Mitchell for HMRC said; 'The club is a well loved football club with a long and successful history. 'The question which we and indeed supporters of the club and members of the public ask is how is it possible that this once great club has become insolvent so that its liabilities its assets by £65 million' ''

Just saw that BBC daytime telly presenter Kristian Digby was found dead this morning. Police say that the circumstances are ''unexplained'' at the moment. RIP. http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/mar/01/kristian-digby-tv-presenter-dead

Bets on the results? I'm going for: Pompy 0 - 1 HMRC (Norris, 89th)