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Keep up Ron FFS

Yep, several times. Daggers, West Ham, Brentford, Spurs, Everton, Watford...off the top of my head.

@officialsaints: Both teams now out on the pitch. #SaintsFC are in yellow and blue, while the home side are in red-and-white shirts with black shorts. Well, that answers the '3rd kit' question then....or does it...?

billy sharp ‏@billysharp10 New boots for the season,let's hope the chairman decides I can keep my number 11. #LJS http://yfrog.com/oeme9ujj

Have highlighted the "Nutshell of the Day" statement above in big easy to read letters for those down the road who are still wiping the sand from their eyes....

Cor blimey c o c k....2,500 posts? Or, as it's known in Portsmouth.....10 posts....

cervical

Lawrence Hall ‏@LawrencePFCHall HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA the scummers are after Gillingham's keeper now! #DownBeforeItEvenStarts #Pompey

Chris Johnson ‏@thechief1981 @MatthewLeGod seems to spend more time researching #pompey then his own team!

@pn_neil_allen: Due to popular demand and them being so funny, all your best Kanu non-sightings will be in tomorrow's News. Keep it up! #Pompey #whereskanu I must have missed the precursor to this....the article where they published the "so funny" sightings of the £130,000,000 they owe the clubs creditors, tax payers, players, etc...? God bless side splitting repair kits

The blessing of all those involved?! Chortle....yeah, like the players had a genuine choice in the matter! Pompey: "Help us keep the club alive by agreeing that we won't pay you what you're contracted to be paid otherwise you end up with nothing and/or the wrath of Pompey fans on your conscience...."

Indeed! You can just imagine the conversation now.... Pompey: "Hello Mr Kanu. You've turned up at last then? You're fined £30,000 for missing training" Kanu: "No worries guv..... So that's £770,000 you own me now instead of £800,000" (or whatever the figures are in Pompey's world of 'Think of a Number') I don't know whether to laugh or cry anymore....

@pn_neil_allen: Appleton determined to punish 'disrespectful' Kanu. If he can find him! http://t.co/rakq3AGm #Pompey And the club aren't in breach of contract for not paying the players what they are CONTRACTED to be paid?!!!!! UNBELIEVABLE HYPOCRISY Congratulations Appleton....it's taken a while but you've finally joined the ranks of the deluded that have run, governed and supported that poor excuse for a football club over the last 5+ years

When they announced the new ticketing system at the end of the season I'm pretty convinced they said it would allow individual seat selection. Maybe they aren't activating that feature until after the friendlies....? Who knows...?

Fair point - I was talking more in general I guess. That said, they showed a graph on TV news the other day of the Libor rate in relation to Barclays dealings and there was a marked shift around the very time that Darling and co were trying to stabilise the banking system. This indicates to me that there was public domain information out there if the powers that be wanted to monitor 'unusual patterns' in the industry. Yes, appreciated, there was probably too many woods and too many trees when all this was happening but my hunch is that it wouldn't have been impossible to detect the changes in dealing and exchange rate patterns had someone deemed it important enough to do so. Hindsight? Maybe. Foreseeable? Possibly.

It's curious how people in positions of power seemingly know nothing about what is going on when things go pear shaped yet they have their fingers in every possible pie when something good has happened. It sounds like Osborne made the wrong accusation. Rather than having the temerity to assume that someone senior in the Treasury knew what Britain's banks were up to, he should have accused them of not having a Scooby Doo what was happening. The "we knew nothing about it" excuse used across the political and business spectrum is becoming a somewhat tiresome 'defence'. Ignorance is the new incompetence.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2164835/Leandro-Damiao-Tottenham-fail-bid-sign-him.html An offer of £15m and he'd be ours I reckon... :-)

He'll do

Saints interested in the "highly rated" ex-Valencia keeper Paulo Gazzaniga according to Radio Solent http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paulo_Gazzaniga

Solent saying we're one of three clubs interested in Gillingham's keeper http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paulo_Gazzaniga

Good lord. There aren't enough facepalms in the known universe for an article like that. There really are some thick people in the world (Not you Dune sir, but the daft mare who reported it)

Giving money to a club for players that they acquired directly or indirectly via tax evasion would be tantamount to condoning and/or rewarding said illegal practices. It could therefore be argued that we ARE taking the moral high ground by not giving them money for the player. If a burglar stole a TV and went to prison for his crime, do you think it would be morally correct to offer to take the TV off his hands for a few quid? I know my analogy breaks down somewhat at this point as the ultimate moral solution to this ethical dilemma would be to return the TV / footballer to the person / club that previously owned it / them, but offering money for 'stolen goods' is arguably the least acceptable of the options available.

A loan maybe? (in or out)