Matthew Le God

You have confused the FA with the Premier League like many do. They are two different governing bodies.

Because Saints had a bye. You can't have a cup competition with 48 teams (24 League One and 24 League Two) and not have teams getting byes. 48 teams - 24 teams - 12 teams - 6 teams - 3 teams in the final just doesn't work!

If this is true real questions need to be asked.... http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-1260734/Portsmouth-offered-250-000-Spartak-Moscow-terminate-Quincy-Owusu-Abeyies-loan.html?ITO=1490 This ties in with Spartak offering £250k to get him back from loan. Pompey have paid the £500k and have a deal to keep him for the season. The £250k is their compensation for the loss of a player that they paid £500k to loan for X weeks. The transfer embargo was only lifted for the last few days of January for loan or free transfers in order to stop large amounts of debt being added to an already large amount. What is the point in saying we are only lifting it but you can only do frees and loans if they pay a £500,000 loan fee? Two weeks after signing Tosic, Rocha and Quincy and paying their wages, Pompey ask for dispensation to sell players and make 85 staff redundant!

A story in the Times a few days ago which was posted in this thread where Mr Andronikou is accused of vote rigging an insolvency agreement so they get the 75% needed. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/football/premier_league/portsmouth/article7069905.ece With the news today that he now claims the debt is £100m and not the £78m of the Statement of Affairs by Vantis it raises the question is he up to his old tricks again?

Pitches are only cut up at kick off if there have been games on it. Wembley was re-turfed at the beginning of the month and hasn't been used since.

What are you basing that on? For example it was a Pardew tactic on Tuesday to play Papa behind Lambert and Barnard. When that didn't work Papa went out wide and stayed wide. It isn't Papa that goes inside it is the tactics Pardew tells him.

As a sub maybe, I doubt he'd be in the starting 11 ahead of Waigo or Connolly.

Well he "apparently" played a lot of games in the Championship last season, could have used one of them!

If Pompey sign a player on loan and there isn't a recall clause then he is theirs until the loan expires. He can only go back if Pompey agree and that is unlikely unless they receive compensation.

Which suggests in January Pompey possibly paid Spartak Moscow more than £250k as a loan fee even though the transfer embargo was lifted to only allow frees and loans and not any fees. Makes a mockery of it.

Nothing like some massive generalisations to stir up debate!

Eric Idle is from South Shields in Northumbria.

http://www.vipcanal.com/ch1.html

But the players can be brought by any FL club so it isn't a n advantage and none of them can play this season.

That is only for foreign clubs. Domestic clubs can only do that within last 6 weeks of the contract I think.

£1m for James whose contract runs out at the end of season and wouldn't be allowed to play until next season.

Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain seems to be the next hope.

Every summer, every club releases a number of youth players that don't make the cut. I don't see this as any different.

Your maths teacher needs shooting... 3 points x 9 games = 27 points 53 points + 27 points = 80 points

Hartlepool is known as the town that during the Napoleonic wars apparently hung a monkey as they thought it was a French spy. The team's mascot is 'Angus the Monkey and they voted him mayor of the city.

Well the OS wouldn't lie they can find the figure quite easily. They sold 195 away stand tickets so put 195 on the OS. Imagine they were taking up 19 rows of seats and had 10 fans in each row = 190 Seems about right.

Quite a large margin of error there! As there were 195 Hartlepool fans.