trousers

Top half I reckon (said Trousers guessing when he just said he wouldn't)

Call me old fashioned but I'm going to wait and see rather than guess.

@TonyHusbandBBC: #pompey #afcb Russian investment back at Fratton Park, Cherries at Portsmouth on opening day.

That's us on TV for the first game then....?

Pompey home to .... AFC Bournemouth .... Almost poetic

Source?

@JFBLucas: The eagle has landed.

But the 50p rate is 'fair' in principle, whether we're skint or not? Probably even more logical to squeeze a bit more tax out of the high earners when the going is good...? Saving for a rainy day and all that malarkey....

If a 50p top tax rate is so blindingly and obviously 'fair' why did it take the Labour Party 12 years to increase it from 40p? #confused

Skin care my arse

Linda Lusardi

Phew....welcome back sir....we all thought you'd been nobbled :-)

That's gotta be worth at least 56 bites. Excellent casting technique sir.

Saw a Saints fan in Sainsburys Watchmoor Park (near Camberley) this morning. True story

Three

Re: the bit in bold....yes, I would concur with your diagnosis, within the letter of the law...but....I would argue that it effectively renders the football leagues football creditors rule worthless....in other words, what's the point of the football league having a rule that says all the players contracts should be honoured in full in the event of their club going into administration if said players are then bullied into "voluntarily" diluting their contracts....? In that scenario the rule has completely failed to achieve the very aims that the rule was introduced for in the first place. There's no point having a rule if it's open for clubs to make a mockery of it.

My wife already does that but, alas, she's not German

Lance

Girls

To get from Linda Lusardi to phlegm in two moves is the highlight of this thread so far for me. Marvellous stuff (the collective wit, not phlegm per se)

Yep, that's my thinking too. And it's telling that that Birch left those rows blank in the creditors list first time around....

As Verbal highlights above, if the Football League don't issue a statement in response to this ultimatum to the football creditors (i.e. the players) then they would be sticking two fingers up to the very rule that they've been fighting tooth and nail in court to retain over the last few years. If, somehow, Pompey convince the players to render the Football League's own rule worthless and then, somehow, the Football League deem it appropriate to give Pompey the golden share for next season then we'll need to change one word on the title of this thread: 'saga' to 'farce'. Surely this ultimatum from both Birch and now Fanshawe has put Pompey into a check-mate situation?

If there's one emotion that I've developed an immunity to during this saga it's 'amazement'...

http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/sport/pompey/pompey-past/pompey-face-liquidation-within-weeks-claims-expert-1-3958489

A good move for Bart. I've a hunch he'll do well somewhere like County where he'll have a chance to play first team football more regularly,