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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

Unfortunate coincidence or someone at Fulham with an ever so slightly wicked sense of humour?

Anyone know anyone who is a creditor of PFC? Probably time to give them a quick call....

Done

Anyone know which regional office of HMRC looks after P*mpey's affairs?

It's only 'more serious' if they can't find someone to pay the bills. It could be 'more serious' than ours in terms of scale and breadth of debt but we didn't have a penny to rub together to pay a small cheque where as P*mpey seem to find someone to stump up £10m here and there to bail them out each time. Not really comparing apples with apples I guess.

Perhaps Rupert has got a part time job in the HMRC.....

What percentage of HMRC wind up petitions end up in actual company wind ups? Roughly? Just trying to work out if this is just a run-of-the-mill shot across the bows by the tax man or whether it is something that more often than not signals the beginning of the end?

Where?

Perhaps Richard Fry left Begbies Traynor and is now working for HMRC....now that would be the conspiracy theory to end all conspiracy theories....

So, the FA have a rule that allows players to break the rules more often in the second half of the season than the first? Unless I've read it wrong (first time for everything)