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I know a good lawyer if they take you to court over that statement....

The same company that advised AA & Chainrai when he purchased the club in 2010.... http://www.legalweek.com/legal-week/news/1811440/walker-morris-taylor-wessing-roles-portsmouth-fc-sale

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-20680924

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/gossip/

http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/sport/pompey/whittingham-refuses-to-buckle-after-points-blow-1-4572788 "The Football League yesterday reiterated their intention to further punish the club. That will be regardless of whether the Pompey Supporters’ Trust succeed in taking the Blues out of administration. Although a points deduction was previously announced, it had been hoped the figure would be reassessed following Portpin’s failure to return to the club. However, league chiefs have now clarified the situation." How many more times FFS? No, Mr Allen, there was never any hope that the FL would change their stance depending on who became preferred bidder....and....no, they haven't clarified the situation as there was nothing to be clarified. As you state previously, they have simply re-iterated what they announced months ago. Pompey....making stuff up since Look...even the caretaker manager gets it.... "In the meantime, Whittingham is adamant it is business as usual as he attempts to keep Pompey in League One.He said: ‘We always took it that we would have 10 points deducted, so it is not a surprise. ‘The Football League have got to do what they do – and we will crack on with it. ‘We have always treated games as if the points had already come off us. ‘That is an approach we have taken from the start, we have had our eyes wide open through all this. ‘Nothing has changed. We just have to carry on trying to get the results on the pitch.’"

^This

Isn't that Sky rehashing Adkins' post match interview on Saturday? i.e. before he, or anyone else, knew/knows the full extent of the injury? If it's a new, more recent quote then sounds more promising than we'd hoped...

Nail on head for me. I've not read back through the thread so perhaps this has been mentioned before but, surely, the most sensible way to achieve "equality" as far as marriage is concerned is for the various religions to clamp down on EVERYONE who tries to get married in a religious place of worship when they don't subscribe to the beliefs of said religion? I, hypocritically, got married in a CoE church but I would not be fighting for the right to do so if the CoE decided to only allowed devout christians to do so. To me, sexuality doesn't need to come into the debate to make things "equal"....religions just need to tighten up their own 'rules' to apply to everyone, regardless of sexuality. (One assumes that religions allow non-religious people to marry in their churches for financial reasons - i.e. it's a good money spinner for them?)

And there you have the "doing well" platitude. All going to script perfectly....

Oh, ok then...

Forgetting about age and experience for a second, isn't Reeves the most natural left midfielder out of those 4?

Would prefer Reeves to Fox in LM

On the assumption Lallana is out... -------------------------------- Davis ------------------------------ Clyne ----------- Fonte --------------- Yoshida---------Shaw ---------- Schneiderln ------------------------ Cork ------------- Puncheon ------------------ Ramirez ----------------- Reeves --------------------------------- Lambert ---------------------------- Subs: Gazza, Fox, Hooiveld, JWP, Guly, Rodriguez, Mayuka

Ah....saw this after I posted...

I've not seen a lot of Ben Reeves but I'm thinking he'd also make a good replacement for Lallana on the left? (Yes, I know that would make the average age of our left flank about 14 but....)

If they were anywhere remotely close to achieving the target amount we would have heard about it by now. I've organised plenty of events whereby you always announce that registrations are "looking healthy" if the take up is slow. Whereas, you'll always announce a "more than x have already registered' figure when you want people to know how popular the take up has actually been as that is good advertising in itself.

Sounds good to me.

http://www.saintsweb.co.uk/showthread.php?t=41689

@brendonvbone: You can trust those down the road to stick their f***ing noses in. Mind your own f***ing business! Erm, I think you'll find that HMRC being diddled out of c.£50m over 3 years is everyone's business not just your own...

http://www.portsmouthfc.co.uk/LatestNews/news/Pompey-Supporters-Trust-Statement-3972.aspx

"Great minds...."

Looking on the bright side...lays to rest any outside chance of him being lured away in the transfer window...probably...

Except they haven't really clarified anything as there was nothing to clarify (except for those who chose to not read or remember the original football league statement in August)