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@officialsaints: GOAL! SAINTS 2-0 WOLVES (PUNCHEON 69) #saintsfc

@officialsaints: We'll have a #SaintsFC debutant coming on very shortly...

With Pompey being 3 up I make that c.£50m creditors' debt per goal. Superb value for money to keep them going...

@officialsaints: Attendance: 3,978 (420 away fans) #saintsfc

3-0

They will have printed it like that on purpose as (a) to get a sympathy vote from 'the nation' and (b) to send a shot across the Football League's bows to say "look, if you don't let us sign more players we can't afford soon YOUR league is going to be a laughing stock. " In other words, they want people to laugh at them as an attention seeking ploy. Cue the Football League taking pity on them next week. A smart move by Pompey in the knowledge the FL will roll over like a puppy.

Yeah, but he'll become a hero (again) if he does. And it means he'll no longer be intimidated by fans whipped up into an aggressive verbal frenzy by local journalists...

@pn_neil_allen: Birch on Kanu: "I have spoken to his rep and am very hopeful of something being agreed over the weekend". Would settle £3m dispute. #Pompey

£300 quid? Blimey, what did you threaten him with? A night out at Fratton Park in the company of John Westwood?

I wonder when it'll hit them that 'saving' the club in its current guise will be much worse than starting again with a clean slate? Still, more amusement for us in the short to medium term if they are 'saved'

Silly question Trousers... @JordanHampton: Well done Dave Kitson!! He's left #Pompey and probably lost quite a bit of money to help save this club!! Nice one Dave!

Is Kitson being hero worshipped yet?

@pn_neil_allen: Dave Kitson has reached a compromise agreement to leave #Pompey. More on http://t.co/WcKZX2ZV soon.

http://m.portsmouth.co.uk/sport/pompey/pompey-past/appleton-sends-out-pompey-youth-warning-1-4124222 "Michael Appleton has warned Pompey cannot afford to rely on their youngsters in League One. He said: ‘Let’s be absolutely, completely blunt. ‘If we are going into the season with kids, there is only one thing that is going to happen, end of story. ‘No-one can blame them and expect any different but let’s just get real for one second. ‘They need massive, massive help and they need time. They are not ready for this type of football at all – as in the amount of numbers we are talking about. ‘Two or three might come through to be part of an experienced team and a team that can be successful – but certainly not seven, eight or nine of them. ‘If they are lucky enough to get a few minutes here, a few minutes there, then all of a sudden a couple of them are lucky enough to get a start, then great. ‘We must all realise, though, the kids are not going to be the answer in making sure Portsmouth have a really competitive season."

Have they not put it online somewhere? I guess you got it via email? cheers

PORTSMOUTH North MP Penny Mordaunt has urged constituents to contact their local councillors and express their views on Pompey’s future. It comes as the Pompey Supporters’ Trust revealed part of its proposals to take over the club includes a loan request to Portsmouth City Council of £1.45m. Ms Mordaunt, who was at the trust’s press conference yesterday, believes the loan would pose ‘zero risk’ to the authority. She said: ‘Most people might find it weird that a local authority might do what a bank might commonly do, but local authorities loan money to organisations and other local authorities all the time. ‘I think this is a really good investment and would yield more for our city than other things the council has done in the past. We’ve got a few days, so all councillors across our city, who will be alive to that fact that this is such an important issue to the people they represent, need to concentrate on this proposal. Penny my dear...if it's such a low risk loan why don't you persuade one of the banks you part own and run to lend the money....no? I wonder why that is? Low risk my arse. If you wanna be a socialist then go and join the Labour Party FFS... ;-)

@pn_neil_allen: #Pompey City Council say they will consider £1.45m short-term loan to help Trust buy Fratton Park off Portpin. http://t.co/4mTinuOy "THE leader of Portsmouth City Council Gerald Vernon-Jackson says he will consider loaning taxpayers’ cash to help fans take over Pompey." "He added a letter has been sent to the Premier League to request repayments to the council are guaranteed on future parachute payments." Erm...aren't the players who's contracts have been dishonoured in front of you in the queue for they one...?

By the way, whatever happened to Birch's quest to "urgently" contact CVA1 creditors the other week so he could get "75%" approval from them for CVA2...?

Tucked away at the end of this BBC article earlier today: http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/19092534

Attendances will go up ten fold as they secure back to back promotions to the premier league whereby they can waste the parachute money all over again.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/19092534