eurosaint

Am normally at the game but right now am in Cape Town and can only follow this match thread. Amazed at how negative and Skatelike some of the comments are ! How can anyone LoL when we concede ??

Tragic, I assume that his dad was still a young man, it will take a lot out of the lad in the short term but at the same time it puts football into perspective ! RIP Richard Gallagher.

http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/sport/pompey/butler-eyeing-butler-injury-return-before-season-s-end-1-5853111 Top journalism, I reckon that 'Factless' has surpassed himself, surely it should read "Barker eyeing Butler return" !

My son-in-law was born in Coventry but in spite of this I've signed the petition Seriously though, its a bl**dy disgrace that this situation has come about and I wish their fans all the best for a happy resolution to the problem !

He is suffering from a condition known as 'Skateism', it's not particularly widespread, in fact there are only about 14,000 sufferers these days whereas 6 years ago almost 250,000 were spotted on Southsea Common alone

For the sake of accuracy and fairness, the £300mil was quoted as being for the season ie. a mere £13.04mil per match ! This equates to approximately £1000 per person attending, on top of the £12 ticket price of course ! Pompey maths, eh ??

Assuming that we finish 8th or 9th this season then the next level could realistically only be 6th or 7th IMO ! Arse, Chelski, City, Utd and a resurgent Liverpool should be gauranteed as top 5 which only leaves Everton, Spurs, Newcastle to compete with ! Even this is a very big ask, but possible only if we retain our best players and add 3 or 4 more top quality additions ! Going to be difficult to improve on this season particularly if we manage to progress further in the FA cup !

"Clutch my crutch"!

What's all this nonsense about 'enormous debt' ? I'm certain that the chairman ( Champagne Ian McInnes) declared to the world that they were 'debt free' ! Something does not add up here , I'm very disturbed at this sudden turn in their fortunes

Had a similar experience last year ( except we only drew!) Be a pity to see them go, would much prefer WHU, Sunderland and Stoke !

Yoshida has proved that he is a competent back up CB in the PL ! As an established international, having played against the likes of Germany and Brazil, it would be difficult to find someone else willing to sit on the bench for much of the season and then come in and perform as he does ! For sure, he is not 'world class' but right now he is the best back up that we have !!

I voted Yoshida as MoM, never put a foot wrong and (given that he is not a regular) felt that he read the play superbly and contributed to a solid back line performance ! Many have said that we were poor in the first half but I prefer to consider that we contained the opposition with a view to breaking them down later with increased impetus and creativity ! The fact is that Fulham are in pretty deep relegation trouble and were always going to be more vulnerable the longer the match went on and that is how it panned out ! COYS

I've just done a wee-wee in my pants...... Lubbly jubbly, great day, just opening a nice bottle of my finest white burgundy ! Deep joy

Having watched the performance v Arsenal without Lovren, Clyne, Wanyama Ramirez and Lambert I would say that we are still in a pretty good place ! Sure it would be nice to replace the nutcase should it be confirmed that he has left but there is absolutely no need to make any panic buy in this window !

I think we only paid something like £350k for him so to get £1.75mil plus some previous loan fee amounts, we made a substantial profit on a player who is clearly deemed as dispensible ! Not bad business really !

If the Skates show an interest then obviously we would have no chance

Did I notice Steve De Ridder in that video or is it just a lookalike ??

Nah, that can't be, the original is safely stored in Terry the builder's warehouse

A welcome, positive statement ! Wouldn't it be nice to see her at Wembley in May with a red and white scarf around her neck, a little camera in her hand and a lovely big smile on her face !

Clearly positive news, thankfully we don't have Labour to Balls it up (yet!).

From the News article on trimming the squad (or not, depending on how you read it!) : Barker explained: "I would like it to be a lot less than I have got now, I don’t know the exact number, but you are talking about high 20s" Is it only me who thinks that the manager should know exactly how many players he has ? Perhaps he struggles to count up to thirty but otherwise it really comes across as incompetence on a grand scale ! I am willing to bet that the manager of my local Sainbury's knows exactly how many staff he has and it will be a helluva lot more than the high 20's !

Ouch indeed... TBF she was very gutsy and took on a very difficult dive ! Mind you, being a Skate she should be at home in the depths !

The Snows that I nearly bought from are BMW dealers in Newport http://www.snowsisleofwightbmw.co.uk/ and it was a toss up between a 5 series there or an XF from H A Fox which is what I bought in the end ! I guessed that all the Snows garages were BMW and owned by Skates but maybe I'm wrong ??

On the assumption that they were Skates, I held back from buying a new motor from them and bought from H A Fox instead ! I hope that I did the right thing ??

Cortese certainly stood by the mantra 'live by the sword, die by the sword', he should also have considered 'as ye reap, so shall ye sow' but he should never have forgotten the old saying 'never bite the hand that feeds you' !!