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From twitter a few days ago Hit and hope? If he did come back at least he'd benefit from warming a bench that was closer to home

Court to appoint administrator though. Probably worst outcome they could have

Seconded. Perhaps once this thread has come to it's logical conclusion we can start a new one giving the likes of Mero all the support we can in getting a Phoenix club up and running. After all it's in our own interests to have a club that we can bicker with, insult, take the ****, even come to blows with occasionally. Without one our wives and girlfriends are going to be the ones to suffer. But joking aside, the town has enough sensible fans to deserve a replacement club to get behind, albeit in a much lower league to start with (only fair on the rest of the league). Apart from that we need someone to gloat over as we continue our march to the CL, B'mouth will never be enough

Middlesbrough done that once for an away game at Blackburn. Got docked 3 points. Was the difference between them going down and us staying up. Oh the irony

This morning Chris Evans dedicated his Radio 2 Breakfast Show to today being National Toast Day. Just saying

As usual you ignore the whole point in favour of a cheap shot . Do you really think, just as one example, we played McGoldrick all season when we had established international Gregorz Rasiak on our books because he was the better player. Course not, we found ourselves in a position where we couldn't pay GR's wages so we loaned him out and played an inferior player instead. Didn't grizzle about it. Didn't stomp our feet, throw our toys and whinge about level playing fields. We just did what was right. How many of your high earners that you can't afford have you loaned out?

I meant on future deals from a set date, clearly it would be wrong to change the terms of existing deals retrospectively. I guess you're right though, simply doing away with the football creditors rule would mean no rule would be needed that transfers must be paid up front. It would be up to the selling club if they were prepared to take that risk of receiving installments. Paying up front would probably become self fulfilling in a few years anyway - after all if someone had done due-diligence on Pompey 6 months ago what would they have seen? Probably enough to think they were good for the money. Word soon gets round, and once bitten twice shy, any club letting another club down would find it very hard buying players in future.

The whole football creditors rule should be so easy to overcome. 2 new football rules are all that's needed 1) Transfer fees must be payed in full, in one installment, before a player's registration at a new club becomes effective. 2) No club can select a player for a match who's salary is more than 31 days in arrears (in accordance with the terms of his contract) Might start seeing some sanity in the transfer / wages market then. Football debts could then be treated the same as every other debt because effectively there should never be any.

No we just had the one -10, applied the next season due to the timing of admin. Am I right in thinking that technically we never came out of admin as the football club was never in it in the first place?. SLH (which WAS in admin) was wound up after debts were paid, SFC simply carried on with new owners.

How's this for an absolute nightmare scenario Rangers go Pop Celtic realise there's no money to be made in continuing without them in SPL. Celtic owners buy Pompey, avoiding WUP and admin Close season change kit to green and white hoops All Celtic first teamers transfer to Pompey in exchange deal for all Pompey first teamers going other way. Portsmouth start next season as a reasonable team in Championship backed by Celtic money and all Celtic fans worldwide who realise they are now Celtic in all but name Cletic still win SPL using their reserves (previously known as Pompey) Arrrrrrghhhh I want to wake up

Young whippersnapper Really old people wear slip-ons

Think the award goes to the club that has to give out the most free tickets to "the community" . The fact that this is to try and fill seats and not an act of generosity does not get taken into account. Tokio Marine Family Club of the Year ??? Someone has to be taking the **** with that one.

To be fair they've only know for about 4 months. Look how long it's taken them to realise their club is in financial trouble.

Perfect example of you can prove anything with statistics. Based on a percentage of the few who bother to turn up at home their away support is very high indeed

Simple then. Save yourselves the money draining costs of running a stadium and play all your games away from home in future

Clever photo. Accompanied by a Police Office AND up before the beak

+1 I once read a quote by someone famous, but being old I have forgotten who it was, along the lines of A man knows when he's getting old when he spots an attractive girl walking towards him in the street, gazes at her in admiration/appreciation/lust ....... and she walks straight past without even noticing he was there. Yep, I'm old

Not how I see it at all I see the monarch as the human representation of our country. The royal family represent continuity. What do Americans, for example, have that represents their country? And outline on a map? A flag? Not the president, he is just a politically motivated individual who comes and goes, (another answer to the same question would be why would I be happy to be a subject of -or subject to - a president I voted against?) . Of course the monarch isn't immortal but there are set rules on who is next so the continuity is there. I see myself as a subject of my country, which is merely represented by The Monarch of the time. If I was a foreigner and the Queen paid a state visit I would feel that that visit was on behalf of our country. If a prime minister and/or president visited I would feel that it was the leader of a political party . The Queen has kept herself above politics although I am sure there has been a few occasions when her wishes have quietly been made known. Just think if we were a Republic we could have someone like Richard Branson or Simon Cowell or Rupert Murdoch as our head of state (not sure if the latter qualifies but you get my drift). Or even the latest pop sensation as it would probably be decided by phone/text vote. Bang goes a millennium and more of tradition in one sweep. Would that be how you see England, ooops the UK?. As for Elizabeth the person think she has done an excellent job in what, despite the luxuries, must be one of the hardest jobs in the world to cope with. I thought it was telling in last nights doc that , whilst several other nations have Queens, all the Americans interviewed referred to her as THE Queen.

My last post should have referred to Sholing Sports FC Not to mention an unencumbered stadium and Premier League quality training ground,

Birch Lawn - not as big as FP but not a lot smaller - home of Sholing FC had a strict, long established covenant that the land it was on could only, ever, be used for recreational use. Where is it now? If I've still got my bearings right it is exactly HERE. As you say policies change, lawyers nit pick, nothing is ever cast in stone.

He accused me of ignoring him in a pub in Norwich once Steve. I reckon he must be a master of camouflage

Looks like that one has been deleted. Struck a nerve?

My e-mail to No 10 . Can I expect a reply?

Nooooo don't do it. You can just imagine the outpouring of sympathy from the rest of the not-ITK football world when they go out of business due to an act of god. The true story would never get a look in. I think there only chance raising any funds now is a lot of dodgy looking geezers going into a lot of back street bookies around the country with brown envelopes full of dirty cash betting on P*mp*y to lose their next game. And the next one. And the next one ... Although if the story runs true to form even that plan will probably fall at the first hurdle with a 1-0 victory following a last minute Hull own goal on saturday