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Pearcesport James Pearce Redknapp and Mandaric have now taken their seats in the dock. Redknapp takes a swig from a large bottle of water that he's brought with him 1 minute ago

Paul_A_Foster Paul Foster lampitt accused @portsmouthnews in a radio interview of not reporting the truth..then confirmed our story club owed £1.6m to HMRC #strange 2 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply Retweeted by pn_neil_allen

I think the passers-by were a little bemused as I chuckled out loud when it arrived on the scene!

Pearcesport James Pearce Tannoy: "All parties in the case of Redknapp and Mandaric please go to Court 6".... Redknapp is the first to enter the court room 2 minutes ago

For the wishful thinkers amongst us.... http://www.tottenblog.com/2012/01/harry-in-court-monday-maximum-penalty.html Redknapp is to face trial accused of tax evasion relating to his time as manager of Portsmouth Football Club. The trial is due to start Monday 23rd January, and is likely to last for two weeks. Two payments totalling $295,000 (about £183,000) were allegedly made by Mr Mandaric to a Monaco bank account opened by Mr Redknapp, apparently linked to a bonus scheme where Redknapp was given a small percentage of any profits from transfers... the moral implications notwithstanding, that last bit isn't actually linked to the charge. The prosecution allege that these payments were concealed in order to avoid the income tax and national insurance contributions for which the club was liable, as his employer, to pay. Redknapp has entered a plea of not guilty. When dealing with serious tax evasion, the CPS often prefer to charge a suspect with the common law offence of cheating the public revenue. Cheating the public revenue must be tried in the Crown Court and cannot be tried in the magistrates’ court. On conviction, the maximum penalty that can be imposed is life imprisonment and/or an unlimited fine.

Truth is we'd be equally happy with either. Both will have their comedy value.

Poor old Pompey....It's not our fault Guv..... PORTSMOUTH'S latest slide towards disaster means it is time for the Government to take strong action over who owns football clubs and how they run them. That's the view of Ports-mouth South MP and Pompey fan Mike Hancock following the collapse of Joseph Cala's ludicrous takeover bid and news that the club face a new winding-up order from the tax man which could finally shut them down. Lib Dem Hancock said: "I'm going to take it up with the sports minister and ask him if it's not about time he stepped in and looked at what can be done to regulate the way football clubs are owned and controlled. "We have been serially shafted. We've had character after character turn up and say they are going to buy the club and make all sorts of promises. As long as someone has got the money or alleges they have the money they are allowed to take over part of our heritage. "All these characters are just unbelievable and none of them should be allowed to get near a football club, in my opinion. "If football doesn't start to deal with that stuff, in the end there is going to have to be Government intervention." The football authorities ARE due to give a formal response soon to the damning MPs' report into the game published last year, which highlighted inadequate scrutiny of club ownership and finances. Conveniently, the end of February is also the time Portsmouth could find themselves in court again fighting for their lives. Both Pompey and football chiefs should remember what Blackadder once said to Baldrick: "I would advise you to make the explanation you are about to give phenomenally good." Love that last quote :-)

The 'Shred-it' van on the left of the second shot just turned up...poetic... :-)

Bugger...just missed him! James Pearce @Pearcesport Harry Redknapp has just arrived at Southwark Crown Court. Milan Mandaric not here yet. Both face 2 charges of cheating public revenue 8:26am - 23 Jan 12 via TweetDeck

I'll be walking past Southwark Court in 15 minutes. Will post a photo to set the scene...

It's something to do with parallel universes and worm holes but I can't explain in any detail for fear of disrupting the space-time continuum

Next he'll be telling us that Cala was an AA stooge too....

Pompey fan in 'more worried about team morale than likely implosion of football club as a whole' shocker... @pn_neil_allen: RT @PompeyMax: @pn_neil_allen That will be brilliant for the team morale! Well Done The News!!!

Cheers. No wonder I didn't get it straight away... ;-)

@pn_neil_allen: Seems Lampitt never told Appleton about #Pompey £1.6m tax bill. He found out Saturday from his backroom staff after somebody saw The News!

Source?

1/2: @pn_neil_allen: RT @brianhowe01: Its amazing how much hate mail i get from so called Pompey fans and how many personal attacks i read on fan sites. My proposal is in. Que?

@pn_neil_allen: It seems THE Joseph Cala is on Twitter. Unless it's a fake account. Anyhow pop along to @Joseph_Cala and feel free to ask questions! #Pompey

@pn_neil_allen: RT @Joseph_Cala: @JosephCalamity This is a public warning to you to cease and desist your defamation, or I shall have no choice but to speak to my Attorney

Hobnobs at the ready sir :-)

In other words, they end up with a points penalty whichever way they spin it...?

I'm waitng until 1st Feb before moving on. Assuming that's OK with the forum thought police....?

@pn_neil_allen: RT @IanDarkeESPN: Can anyone give me one bit of good Pompey news ?

For the hard of understanding....Oranges are orange and apples are apples. *puts face in hands and shakes head*

There's actually some logic there. The similarities between stone henge and nottarf krap are eerily close...