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Having been to malta c.10 times on holiday and business I can heartily recommend it too, although I preferred it in the old days before it became part of the EU. It lost a lot of it's idiosynchrasies when it joined the EU IMO. I usually stay near the centre of mellieha rather than down in mellieha bay as it's a fair old trek up the hill to where the many of the bars and restaurans are. The calzone pizza in the restaurant/cafe La Rampa are to die for!

ah no, Close...I was thinking of ABSA

Aren't they part of the Barclays Banking Group?

I'll be first to let you know if that happens... ;-)

50 minutes into the transfer window and still no signings. Starting to get impatient....

Thanks for the candid insight Duncan. Probably not a good moment to admit that trousers towers is a daily mail customer... :-)

I worked for a bank for 20 years. There are ways and means if transferring funds from one account to others as near as damn it 'instantly' if the payer had the motivation and means to do so. Blaming 'bank error' is bullocks. QED

hi Duncan, if Barclays are giving Pompey more slack than they gave Saints due to pressure from the premier league top table, why hasn't some journalist or media outlet latched onto this? I don't disbelieve you - quite the opposite as it's my theory too but why no expose? Cheers

I heard figures of 300 quoted for the 'music festival' part

Strange one for a football club with an "open chequebook"

The one that people keep mentioning but which mght not be an actual rule. Me? I know nurr-fing.

Why no statement from the Premier League about the breach of their rules?

Luton are concentrating on the league

A bit of a leftover curiosity from Saints Aid: Southampton Football Club still receive a royalty everytime a copy of the Saints Aid single 'Colours' is sold on iTunes....which admittedly isn't an ongoing fortune but it's still the case. I hope Mr Pardew spends it wisely

True. Perhaps it'll get a mention in his end of season review. It would be a nice gesture.

I wasn't really asking the question to unearth the final resting place of the donations, I just don't recall anyone at the club (before, during and after the takeover) actually thanking the efforts of the fans in those dark days. I accept that the new regime are under no obligation, moral or otherwise, to specifically mention the deeds of fans during those couple of months as they have given us enough back in both words and actions at a generic level. Reading about the Pompey situation just brought the question back into my head. Sorry for any confusion.

Large apologies if this has been covered before and also apologies if this sounds like I'm having a go - quite the opposite in fact. All the talk about the dire straits at PFC has obviously reminded me of all the money raising endeavours of Saints fans and friends of Saints fans last May/June (e.g. Saints Aid, bucket collections, 'buy and extra ticket and donate it to needy kids', etc). Whilst these endeavours didn't perhaps raise the level of funds that people were hoping, it was still a heart warming effort by fans (and friends of fans) and I was simply wondering if Markus and Nicola have ever directly acknowledged this effort in public? I know people are going to jump down my throat and say 'the past is the past' but I've never seen an interview where Cortese is asked questions about the events leading up to their takeover in terms of what the fans were doing (yes, he's hinted at 'problems' dealing with the 'business' side of things but that's not what I'm getting at here) And, to pre-empt an inevitable question, no, I'm not for one minute suggesting that they should have taken this a stage further and offered people who perhaps couldn't afford to give what they gave their money back - they gave us back our club which is thanks enough - but looking at the plight of our neighbours has brought it all back to me and I never recall seeing any acknowledgement anywhere, from either the old regime or the new, regarding the activities of Saints fans in those darkest of days in May/June 2009. As I say, maybe it was all acknowledged and reported but I just missed it. Over to the floor to read something between the lines in my post that isn't there....

Humbled, not destroyed, for me

So, reading that, Gadymak will ensure that they never go into administration? So, why do people think that admin is an inevitablity then? What percentage of Gadymak's overall fortune is his potential loss in the event of PFC going into administration? The answer to that may help deduce how genuine his 'I would never let the club go into administration because I couldn't afford it to' (or words to that effect) statement in that article is....

Sounds like the same rave write-ups that Waigo was getting before his arrival. Not that I'm saying Waigo isn't good, just that he hasn't quite lived up to the 'Serie A' tag that he was labelled with. Caveat emptor

Don't they realise that AP engineered a loss to Colchester on purpose so that he could squeeze a bit more cash out of Mr Leibherr in January? Allegedly.

'Quite high with a cap' rather than 'open' I'd have thought?

In before the lock

Horse's mouth or someone who knows one of the horses? Game over (in terms of 9 points deduction) if the above is true, surely?

I'd go for 3 of the players mentioned in all the other threads asking a similar question