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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)

This is why I was asking earlier if oldco had actually been wound up yet. I guess it could be argued that they are still contracted to oldco until the day that company is officially liquidated?

@kristemple: Not news of a confirmed signing or departure though - don't want you getting too excited #Saintsfc fans

@kristemple: We'll have a titbit of #Saintsfc transfer info in tomorrow's @solentsport bulletins from 0715

@pn_neil_allen: From speaking to Appleton, I can confidently say he is going to get tough with AWOL Kanu! More in tomorrow's paper! #Pompey #whereskanu Try f***king paying him first!! What's that stench? Well, blow me down, it's rancid hypocrisy!

Gypsies

Knickers

Alas, it's human nature.

Like I say, either you've been unlucky or other, seemingly more satisfied, ACER users have been lucky. Alas, I don't have the stats to prove or disprove either...

@TonyHusbandBBC: #pompey Michael Appleton coming up at 6.30 on @bbcsouthnews

http://www.fansnetwork.co.uk/football/portsmouth/fb_news.php?storyid=17440&title=colin_farmery:_a_funny_old_week_at_fratton_ends_with_a_constant_reminder Yeah...everyone on the planet EXCEPT the fans should take a share of the blame. Afterall, how were they to know anything about their prospective "dubious" owners each time? If only the poor cherubs had had access to the Internet or suchlike then they could have kicked up a fuss at the time...like the rest of us...

@pn_neil_allen: Anyone know where Kanu is? Appleton would love to know. Currently AWOL. File a missing persons. #Pompey @PompeyScot: @pn_neil_allen If he wants to play stupid beggars, club should come down on him hard. To hell with him, he is taking the mick, big style. Players taking the mick?! Carlsberg don't do Pompey fans with short memories, but if they did... Kanu has already deferred hundreds of thousands of pounds of wages to help keep the club artificially alive for six months and they're now accusing him of taking the mick for missing a training session? Give me f***ing strength. Pots. Kettles

@solentsport: Kanu and Mokoena to exit Pompey: N****wo Kanu and Aaron Mokoena's Portsmouth careers appear to be over after the... http://t.co/gUj6l9xr

@TonyHusbandBBC: #pompey Michael Appleton told me players will not get every penny of every pound owed. If they think that they're getting "poor advice." So, confirmation that they intend breaking the Football League's much cherished Football Creditors law then.... That'll be the Golden Share withheld then...surely...?

Winner

Has Rangers (oldco) actually been liquidated yet or is it still in administration pending liquidation...?