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Who cares - he was a 3rd rate, billy big B*****s manager and we now have an articulate, potentially excellent manager who has turned this team round. Could not care less about Pardew - he's history (and a good job too)

Probably already done....but you should try living in America! If they don't use their fingers they stab food as though it is still alive and then saw at it as though it were a piece of wood before swapping hands again.

Dear Lord.....not often I would agree with Skates, but not having read this thread for a long time would it not be humane to put it down? SOme of the stuff on here does not reflect well...who gives a monkey's t**s about what Skates players get up to andf wishing broken legs on a player is just not on.

Ironic really...James considered surplus to requirements, better than most in our team, Gillet deemed not good enough but starts every week for a top 7 Championship team whilst we are stuck in bottom 4 of League 1 and we're stuck with the c**p that was Pardew's pet (Hammond).

Personally, I think this could turn out to be a master stroke by NC. I would assume that there is more to this than just the on-field performances (and let's face it, Saturday aside they were just not good enough). I thought AP was very poor - his tactics were strange, he shipped out players who could do a job for us and had real favourites who were untouchable. Personally I thought we were going nowhere under AP and believe that NC will make a very good decision on the next manager.

LOL at all the heads in the sand...last year it was "we had no pre-season and took time for the team to gel so terrible results are OK", this season it's "pre-season doesn't matter and we're always slow starters"> AP has no Plan B, no tactical nouse and has shipped out players who could do a job for us (like Gillett who is playing at CCC level - way above us!) and kept his favorites in place (Hammond for one). Make no mistake, it will be a long, hard season and we will be VERY fortunate to be in the top 6 with this clown in charge. Oh, for an Eddie Howe in charge (Bournemouth are many places ahead fo us in this League ffs!)

AP is a s***e manager and his tactics (or lack of) are crap. Make no mistake, we'll struggle to go up this year with that twonk in charge.

They added a damn site more than the useless, overweight, slow shower of s***e that is England. England are a disgrace and give up at the slightest adversity....at least the US gave it their absolute all.

It is an incredibly emotional, draining place......don't count on wanting to do anything else for the rest of the day after being there. Immensely upsetting place and until you have been to the Birkenau part of the camp (some way away from Auschwitz) you cannot contemplate the sheer size and scale of the camp. The camp at Auschwitz is most upsetting.....I lost it when looking at a cabinet full of clothing and shoes from people sent to the gas chambers....there were a little pair of red shoes and the girl who owned them could not have been more than 5 years old looking at the shoes. memory that will stay with me until the day that I die. Not a place I would choose to go back to - the sheer inhumanity of the place is quite incredible. There is also a 'punishment block' that has to be seen to be believed. There is a brick chimney with a tiny entrance: the Krauts used to make 8+ people stand in the chimney for days on end and many suffocated. Incredible place to visit but be prepared to be very upset after visiting. Would definitely stay in Cracow.....it's an hours bus journey from the bus station (I think that's right.,.it's been a long time since I was there)

nickh - why are you so concerned about what will/will not happen to Pimply? At the end of the day they ARE toast. Sure they might escape liquidation but then what? No ground (leased back to them), no training ground, no parachute money, will have to get rid of most of the squad, certain relegation from the Premier League and likely relegation to follow from CCC. Whichever way you look at it, they will not come up smelling of roses - they are highly unlikely to get a rich sugar daddy come in - they would have to spend £100 million plus just to get decent facilities. Not quite sure why so many are obsessed with Pimply going out of business....have you already forgotten the build up to the last derby? Do you really want to miss that?

HMRC don't blieve club owes Portpin £13 million! No evidence produced to back this up

Wohhhhhhhh......this is going to get very nasty for PFC...HMRC want full enquiry into connections between the various owners and all transactions. Fraud, money laundering? -30 points for PFC anyone?

ummmmm....wonder if this has anything to do with the SOA that Vantis prepared for the High Court. vantis were hugely critical of PFC in the SOA, by all accounts, and it could be that HMRC have enough evidence that Admin is a sham/something else is very wrong to go ahead with this expensive option.

PES - I genuinely feel really sorry for you and the other decent Pompey fans. At first the train wreck that is now PFC was hilarious but now it is cringeworthy. It is also fascinating to watch some of my fellow Saints fans revelling in your demise and hoping you go pop.....many of these same people were the same ones who were doing as much bleating as some of your fellow fans. And lest we forget, Mike Wilde completely screwed our club over spending money we didn't have (not as bad as your crooks). It will be a sad day (from a rivalry perspective) when you go pop - however, PFC and the crooks that have run it into the ground, deserve all they are going to get. Basically the club cheated it's way to glory (?) and has screwed over local businesses that will struggle to overcome PFC's lying, cheating and non-paying ways. To the likes of you PES, you have my sympathy....to PFC: f**k them.....the people running it have been lying cheating scumbags for a long time and gotten away with it for way too long.

They are stuffed.....of course they are insolvent but for HMRC to state that, they are screwed! Funny how they suddenly have 2 offers for the club (with no due diligence?).

Oh my gawd.....HMRC have just told PFC are insolvent!

Not to mention the extreme dodginess that the Grosvenor WUO relates to the football club acting as guarantor for a business that had absolutely nothing to do with the football club...other than it had the FD also backing it. Would have thought this would be investigated?

Can't believe the fishy few are getting so excited by the rumours circulated by the crook Storieteller and his cronies. Jacob stated today that 2 or 3 interested parties have come forward in the last few days and are in 'preliminary' discussions. So, unless some idiot does no due diligence and just burns his money there is not a cat in hells chance of Pompey being bought by Wednesday. They seem to be pinning all their hopes in persuading HMRC to postpone the WUO (unlikely) or overturning the original judgement (unlikely). Any new owner will be buying a club with no assets and no team......they would have to spend 100s millions to clear the debt and put in place infrastructure. Somehow, I can't see even wealthy Arabs p*******g their money up against the wall like that.

I don't understand.......surely they are now still trading whilst insolvent. If they can't afford to pay £200 (or some over lowly amount) why are they still getting loanees in (when they obviously can't pay them). If they are still trading whilst insolvent then the Directors are criminally liable.....maybe that is why their Finance Director resigned last week.

Not at the game so can't comment, but...... for me, Pardew talks in soundbites but lacks any real substance and has compiled a long list of strikers and defenders but ignored our weak midfield. Why make so many changes after a good win against Ipswich? Why bemoan the lack of energy from midfield when he could have played Gillet there...and one thing you can't deny is that Gillet provides energy (and no coincidence that Doncaster have failed to win since he came back from the CCC to League 1). With the money that Pardew has spent, we should be doing an awful lot better than we are.

Very, very disappointed if true. I ahve real reservations about Pardew: the fact he rates rubbish like ANtonio above Gillet is quite concerning as is the fact we are about to bring in Pericard. Pardew has moaned about lack of quality at the club but appears to be bringing in quite a few mediocre players himself. The fact that Donny have gone on a winning run since he joined (at Championship level, not League 1) is no coincidence.

Chez - I would say that better holding midfielder than Wotton could be Gillett. He might not be Pardew's cup of tea but since he went to Doncaster (a league above Saints) they have started winning games and moving up the table. No chance of that happening though...... Have to say I thought Hammond was crap today.....Morgan is an unbelievable player for the ;league we are in and I'm not surprised Arsenal were/are looking at him.

Interesting stuff....having been a few times and my brother having lived there for 3 years, my observations have been: A lot of ex-pats are chavs with no sensibility to the local culture or respect for the local culture Dubai is an obscene place driven by greed and money, totally false and with no soul The locals (Emiratis) treat the Asian workers like scum: forcing taxis off the road, etc Outside of Dubai there are some wonderful places where the locals are amazingly hospitable and kind (specifically Oman) There are areas of real, rugged beauty Dubai has never been 'cheap'....everything seems to be pricey with the exception of booze at Barracuda It's a very false place...where money appears more important than anything else Emiratis have fantastic, free healthcare The cheap labour don't have an easy life but their life is no harder than back home and the money is better Deffo not a place I would like to live in a million years!

My god there are some bitter, twisted morons on here. What's up - are you all jealous that you never made it as a pro footballer? Lancashire is a Saints player and yet for, some, he is the latest in a long range of scapegoats. Rather than support and encourage him, snidey remarks appear the order of the day...well I hope your bosses are as unsupportive of you for any little mistake. Pathetically unbelievable.

http://aawsat.com/english/news.asp?section=1&id=18579 Oh dear, oh dear...poor old Skates! Looks like the interview was real! Just visiting my brother in Dubai who works for a large bank and deals with the Saudis a lot....no-one has ever heard of Ali al-Faraj in business circles and nothing exists officially about him in normal business circles/checks. Out of the frying pan into the fire...........