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^ This As you say, they didn't hesitate to adjust their rules when Rupert tried to bend their rules with the parent company malarkey....

I meant to mention yesterday that they re-issued the appointment of administrators notice last week and re -added Birch to the list.

So, according to the intellectual might of the Football League: Coming out of administration without a CVA = naughty (extra points penalty) Whereas... Coming out of administration with a CVA which you then later scrap = perfectly fine (no extra points penalty) I really do give up. Sigh

It would seem not. It is all a bit complicated though so don't be too harsh on the poor little petal...

I'm more than happy to accept it if the Football league are too....

[TABLE=width: 100%] [TR] [TD=class: chatmsgtime, bgcolor: #F6F6F6]12:19 [/TD] [TD=class: chatmsgtext viewer_text, bgcolor: #FFFFFF][TABLE=width: 100%] [TR] [TD][/TD] [TD]Comment From Harry Stotle Why doesn't The News ever interview Tal Ben Haim and tackle him about his contract. He must be aware how damaging it is. [/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE] [/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE] [TABLE=width: 100%] [TR] [TD=class: chatmsgtime, bgcolor: #F6F6F6]12:21 [/TD] [TD=class: chatmsgtext altcaster_text, bgcolor: #FFFFFF][TABLE] [TR] [TD][/TD] [TD]Neil: Simple - because he refuses to talk! I did ring him up once last season and he pretended to be his brother. Shortly afterwards he moaned at me for things I had said and written about him and that I 'didn't know the facts'. When I pointed out to him that I rang him up and he pretended to be somebody else he had no response! [/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE] [/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE]

Hmmm...looks like I got an answer even though the question itself didn't show up in the chat box: 12:12 [TABLE] [TR] [TD][/TD] [TD]Neil: The first CVA payment of £2.48m was scheduled for April 1. However, that has now fallen by the wayside because of administration. This will be re-valued during the administration process and be considerably smaller. There will be no FL points deduction on this though. [/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE] So, it's official....CHEATS!!!

Let's see if this one gets through: "Hi Neil, Don't know if you can help me out with something my Saints supporting colleague has been banging on about thsi week.....he says that the first payment date for the original CVA was 1st April (i.e. Sunday just gone) and that teh Football League should dock us more points for failing to honour a CVA.....is that right or is he talking nonsense?! PUP! "

@solentsport: #pompey have extended the loan spell of Striker Chris Maquire until the end of the season

It's chat time folks! http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/sport/pompey/webchats

One of the comments on there reckons the figure is nearer 1,000! (those who have a match ticket but no coach ticket). That sort of adds up....40 coaches x 50 per coach = 2,000 fans on coaches.....how many tickets did they sell? Best part of 3,000? Hmmm, chaos around the ground it is then!

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Yours was predicting what might happen in the future, mine was stating it had happened. HTH Anyway.....in related news....The Sun are saying that we beat Newcastle, Everton and Fulham to his signature... (bottom of this Upson article: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sport/football/4237379/Southampton-ready-to-save-Matthew-Upson-from-his-Stoke-hell.html )

The Sun saying we are targeting him regardless of whether we go up or not: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sport/football/4237379/Southampton-ready-to-save-Matthew-Upson-from-his-Stoke-hell.html

Perhaps Birch has uncovered the 'mystery' of the original CVA being artificially inflated (allegedly) to squeeze out HMRC....?

Ah, yep, fair point. Although had he still been at the Admin helm of Cheats FC on 1st April 2012 I'm sure we would have seen something similar happening.

Is there a copy of that letter that can be posted on here? Don't think I've seen it anywhere. When was it sent out? Cheers

IIRC, AA successfully moved the goalposts of the "contributions due" when he was Swindon's administrator. My anecdotal recollection of that might be wide of the mark though

Confirmation... @TonyHusbandBBC: RT @NabilHassan79: #Pompey Supporters' Trust spokesman Scott Mclachlan says they need to raise £8m to save Portsmouth: http://t.co/7bkOKzSz

@joshooiveld20: Great dinner with our japanese superstar yesterday! @ChunTadanari made him a well spiced chicken with thyme, he loved it.

Didn't someone post a few weeks ago that a club is only permitted to have 4 ticket promo matches per season? Pompey must have exceeded this by now..,?

1 defeat in exchange for 5 victories? Yes. Of course we'd take that. Goes without saying. Simple logic.

And therein lies the problem (probably)...

@pn_neil_allen: Interesting. Mullins hasn't made Reading's last 2 squads, Henderson can't make West Ham's and Huseklepp sub again for Brum tonight! #Pompey