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Oh Roflcopters Oh PMSL Oh you are KIDDING ME! :lol: Now we know where he got the idea from. That little lot is on about Page 13 of the "How to Buy a Football Club" Business Plan that Panorama mentioned when they stitched up Bryan Robson in Thailand. Have already mentioned (a few times) how that got into the public domain. So their great white hope has the SAME business plan that the Russians had. Oh sweet, off to the kitchen for some paper towels to wipe the Vodka Cranberry off the monitor

Here's an idea. They are NOT insolvent. They HAVE assets, it is their cash flow that is screwed. So the value of their players probably currently outweighs the amount of their debts, however under the rules in which they "participate" they currently have a situation (of their own making) where they cannot sell their assets to fund their debts. Legally that is a wriggle room opportunity, has anyone tested the Transfer Window in a case under UK Company Law before? poopey will have plenty of advisors, we know that admin is pretty much a no-go as there is not enough cash flow to cover their running costs let alone admin fees. It all comes down to the players. Sell some they survive. But the rules say they cannot... It's all about buying time By 10 minutes to the court case on the 19th Chinny will accept 3 million in cash to walk away is their obvious gambit. And THEN the FL have problems a plenty

Think 3 days is being optimistic. Well am off up to watch tomorrow for the whole day - no lay in or I'll miss everything

Go to Edinburgh, stay in a posh hotel sell the ticket for a fortune to cover all the costs and while away the afternoon in a sports bar going cross eyed watching both

Lol can almost hear that being sung against them at SMS Except they won't last that long

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fi4K9Cus0_g&feature=player_detailpage

Ah that's alright then, it's a Met Office warning. Better pack sunscreen & shades then

Yup KP & Strauss added 57 runs in 14.5 overs at a rate just under 4 an over

Oh, looks like my motivational chat with Alistair Cook at the golf last weekend worked a treat then.

Think I can understand it. The club is doing a fantastic job of imploding all by itself, the farce of needing to sell players but nobody making a decision is just one example. Giving them a points deduction this week or next is irrelevant in the bigger scheme of things. BUT by sitting by the side letting them implode/try to mug some fool they simply keep their powder dry. Also the not insubstatial point that "the points penalty" before a buyer is found (hahaha) could open them up to a challenge in the courts - poopey could say someone walked away and the League could find themselves liable - unlikely but a possibility. Anyway, 20th Feb, they won't need to deduct points. poopey will do it for them

It's nothing to do with US! You seem to have forgotten the poor Sri Lankans who got shot last time they tried to play a Test in Pakistan. Pakistan are not allowed to play at home so they choose where THEY want to play a game, the locals just have to get on with it. FWIW we DID have a decent ODI side some years back - all long term residents (even some ex-pat brat kids who were born here) who qualified to play the same way KP & Trott did. ICC then changed the rules (but not for England) so the lads here had to start again from scratch. Anyway good news from the Test. We've avoided the follow-on

And in that line is where 'arry's game ends. There simply can be no way now whatever the Verdict that the FA can appoint him as England Manager. He admits he lied to the Press. If he is acquitted, that lie still helped lead to a massively expensive Court Case. as well as the fact that the press will turn on him big time.

85/9 Monty has 2 wickets & Swanny 1 They've probably got too many for us now anyway. Bit worried whether the game will last into tomorrow when I have a ticket

How is the weather over that way this morning. I notice it's -5 up in Salisbury. any chance of getting down to say -10? Must be tough for the few, those benefit payments and help with heating their caravans can't let them risk paying in advance for a match ticket for a game that may get postponed until after they are dead

Like I mentioned, I've now found Marstons Pedigree in TWO pubs so there is hope. On the Lager subject as someone else mentioned above, ONE benefit of being down here is that our Fosters comes from Aus, our Heineken from Holland, Peroni from Italy etc. In fact the only tasteless Lager we can find here is... Carling Black Label. Brits really cannot brew Lager properly, when I come back, about the only Lager I can drink is 1664 Oh and the other I discovered here is that our Guinness comes from Dublin which also made for a huge taste difference

Tour Guide. Semi-Professional Golf Tournament Marshall. (About the only reasons anyone on here would need my services I expect!) In my spare time I advise small companies on how to develop Route to Market Strategies in the greater Middle East, if they operate in advanced IT Security we put them into the product portfolio of the Asset Management Business I help run down here.

Every time I hear one of the pleading bleating whingeing few, I think back to THAT FA Cup game. The one where they went to Court and said they had LOADSA money and went out and brought in even MORE players who scored against us. The posts where they danced on our grave and p1ssed on our seats THAT is why these 1024 pages have been so satisfying. They haven't died, but watching the PAIN has been close to Orgasmic. It will be a shame when it all finally ends, but they'll have a clean new club and I'll have the same feelings for them as I do for Bompey. None

21-5 in the 11th over No not US. THEM Broad & Anderson have torn them to shreds with the new ball

You guys have NO idea how lucky you are to be able to drink Ale. We have had to put up with canned or bottled stuff for years, (apart from Kilkenny that is) although in past few weeks Marstons Pedigree has made an appearance and is properly served to (almost) taste like the real thing. In answer to the OP Lager when I need a cold one (ie most months from April-October when it is stupid hot) Ale whenever I can find it

Sod the posh Marmelade, time for a nice new Morphy Richards so that it comes out just perfect

Allowing myself an "I told you so" moment. About 400 pages ago now (it seems, I posted that the thing that would undo CSI & Portsmouth would be Compliance. The article that MLG posted on the previous page held this little gem from JoCa Again, I posted that the undoing of Vlad & Roman would be their total and complete arrogance. For those trying to pull together the actual history of what the hell really went on at Nottarf, that comment from JoCa, allegedly, from my analysis of events, shows that if someone really wanted to stitch up the Russians so that they failed thanks to their own Arrogance and total belief that they were THE smartest Businessmen on the planet... After 'arry & milan of course. Would also explain not wanting to put too much detail into having stitched up the Russian Mafia & the few. Nah that probably STILL doesn't help much

They have 3 hopes of doing that No Hope Bob Hope and Envelope

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OK gang, here is something very strange. Word is that poopey have not paid the players wages for January. So HOW COME we have not heard ANY statements from that massive (never miss a chance to get on TV media luvvie) Gordon Taylor? Why is he not commenting on the rights & interests of his Union Members? C'mon guys, has ANYONE ever known a Union Leader with the chance to comment stay SILENT?

Now if only I had photoshop I could have personalised that one for the troll by changing relationships to ownerships