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03/07/2012 7:39 PM BST Rate: (2 | 1) Denmead Dave It is bizarre. Once again the club cons the natives - If there are say 2000 empty seats, and the club cant sell them, they give them away to local school children. Meanwhile the club pockets the £30k to pay TBH, everyone's happy !!! 03/07/2012 7:35 PM BST Rate: (1 | 0) denmeadblue Ummmm so the money will end up in Chanrais hands then? 03/07/2012 7:34 PM BST Rate: (2 | 0) ant30 Agreed Europatin, seats which wouldn't have been used otherwise means it's effectively cash in the club's pocket 03/07/2012 7:03 PM BST Rate: (3 | 3) Europatin Mmmm, sounds a great gesture but giving away 'free' seats in a half empty stadium means that the £30k will be soaked up in the quagmire of debt and confusion that currently exists which I understood was NOT the intention of the competition !

A great story that cuts right through the petty debates we sometimes all engage in on here. This is what being a fan of football is all about.

I'll leave them in your capable hands sir... :-)

I would also add: "If the Portsmouth players were to write off a large percentage of what they are owed, doesn't that send out a wrong signal to other club owners to spend equally recklessly in the knowledge that they won't ever have to honour their player's contracts financially? What message does that send out to the rest of your membership? Surely it would be in the interests of the vast majority of your members for Pompey to be liquidated to send out a message to other clubs not to mistreat your members in the way Pompey did? You have a once in a lifetime opportunity to protect the livelihoods of the vast majority of your membership. Why let that opportunity slip through your hands in order to protect the short term interests of keeping an invested club alive?"

I would but, alas, they're beyond education

My pleasure :-) Lots of touristy pubs being suggested. Decent in their own right but I prefer to go for the less obvious ones personally. If anyone is up in London and at a loose end ever, then drop me a PM for a beer at a decent boozer if I'm free. I work in the Aldgate / Tower Hill area.

The George? Still there. Part owned by the national trust IIRC

Top post sir

The Market Porter, Borough Market. Best real ale pub in central London. South of the river but worth a stroll. Nice part of town. Borough Market itself is a great place to visit on a Friday or Saturday.

HTH

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You don't become a billionaire by paying for things upfront / in one go

And by logical deduction there are no American Saints fans....

This month's "I'm all right Jack" award goes to....

What's stopping the Trust putting in a bid that's conditional on that wage reduction, in exactly the same way that Chainrai has? Otherwise it just seems like a convenient excuse for not putting in a bid (all mouth and no trousers, so to speak). Surely they should just put in a "better" bottom line bid than Chainrai but with the same caveats....? Edit: just read the rest of your post which pretty much answers my question

@solentsport: Appleton hopes for transfer boost: Portsmouth manager Michael Appleton says he is hoping to be allowed to start ... http://t.co/dy7ZGsr7 And in the week that Rugby League side Bradford Bulls dismissed all but the bare bones of their coaching staff in a last gasp attempt to stave off liquidation..... Tune in next time for another gripping episode of "Business As Usual Down At Fratton Park"....

If the games they were giving away tickets for were a sell out (*chortle*....I know, I know....go with me on this one....) then they could argue that they would be losing revenue by dishing out tickets for free and that would be a legitimate use of the £30k (i.e. there would be no net financial gain) but if they are giving away tickets for matches that aren't sell outs then their income simply goes up by £30k. I guess they could argue that their match-day costs rise to cater for the 'free' children (e.g. more stewards required, and extra turnstile open, more burgers to cook ergo more fat in the pipes, etc) but I doubt that the additional costs would match the additional income.

Ssshhhhh.....the last thing we want is the media to cotton onto this latest 'ruse'..... ;-)

Indeed. If they sit back and do or say nothing then they spent all that time fighting HMRC in court in pursuit of preserving their beloved Football Creditors rule for nothing! Did they not?

Meanwhile, in another installment of "they just don't get it, do they?".... The Pompey Pages ‏@Pompey_Pages As long as the club didn't receive 56 more votes for the statue than the free tickets for schools, then that is confirmed. #Pompey FM Saints Researcher ‏@MatthewLeGod @Pompey_Pages "Free tickets for schools", where does the £30k actually go? To the club? To pay debts? I thought that wasn't allowed in this? The Pompey Pages ‏@Pompey_Pages @MatthewLeGod not to pay debts, it is going to be used to give free tickets to local schools. #Pompey

This. 100%. That is of course the solution that exercises the greatest level of integrity....

Stinks to high heaven

Ssssshhhhh......you'll blow my cover FFS!