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Source?

Is that second bit official yet? Don't recall seeing anything about a date for unlinked sales yet. Might have missed it.

I don't know a huge amount about the Reading side as a whole but, to draw comparison, I assume them losing Roberts is akin to us losing Lambert?

Gordon Brown was quite adept at it too :-)

Good question. Would have to go away and number crunch for a while to come up with an accurate figure. Also, what do you count as "essential" outgoings? Would something like an optional critical illness insurance policy count as "essential" for example? Things like petrol fall in both the essential and non-essential camp. Anyway, I'm possibly thinking too hard about it so, my extremely rough top of head guess would be somewhere between £1k - £2k per month on "lifestyle" expenditure. (for a family of four).

Go for it.... :-) Report back soon with screen shots of the exchange of words.....

My personal favourite is the Sun front page.... :-)

Ok, perhaps raising it to 75% in one fowl swoop was a little hopeful on my part. I guess we need to introduce 'fairness' in stages. On reflection, i think they should have raised it to 55% this time around and then 5% per year until the end of this parliament. Surely this is the best way to squeeze more than 27% of the country's tax receipts from the top 1% of earners?

"Same old Pompey..." @pn_neil_allen: Emergency loan window ends today at 5pm. Appleton hopeful of no-one leaving #Pompey but some coming in. Let's see.......

Maybe they should have raised it to, say, 75% to be really fair to all those hard hit families...

Thanks for saving me the hassle of posting on this thread.

Some of us more than once... ;-)

I guess the key part of that statement is: "This obligation will be formalised" (note the future tense) And, the key question is, did AA uphold the words of the oldCo CVA when newCo was formed? Is that public domain information?

Yep, that's my recall too....but is that an AA crafted "agreement" (with the usual crafty caveats) or a legally binding agreement?

Some other thoughts on the accuracy of Harry Harrris's work.... http://www.westhamtillidie.com/2009/02/13/harry-harris-stirs-it-on-5-live/

All very well, but hasn't "the company" already closed....? I know this is an old chestnut of a question but is there anything that legally binds the CVA of 'oldCo' to 'newCo' ???

@pn_neil_allen: Appleton confident Joel Ward will remain at #Pompey despite Ipswich talks.

So, Birch reckons the club will be easier to sell with Chainrai's charge hanging over the ground than if it were owned by a benevolent council? Hmmm, interesting logic....

From the comments section on the printed article:

http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/story/_/id/1038218/trevor-birch:-concerns-over-portsmouth-future-'over'?cc=5739

Re: Guly.... Solent tweeted after the game that it was a 'tight hamstring' so just a precautionary sub

I've just read the script: Sharp hattrick. You heard it here first.

http://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/sport/9601646.Cherries__Echo_banned_by_football_club/