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Thanks to google I am drawn to that bastion of quality football reporting "The Jewish Chronicle". http://www.thejc.com/sport/sport-news/26646/avram-grant-im-not-resigning%E2%80%99 Sounds like Story has been making up how upset Grant is, surely not!!! A source in Israel who is very close to the Portsmouth boss told the JC: “I spoke to Avram last night and he has no intention of resigning. He is certainly not angry. “He understands that several players have to be sold but he is also bringing in three or four players before the transfer window closes. “He is confident that he still has a squad, which is strong enough to stay in the Premier League.” This contradicts the statements made by Portsmouth CEO Peter Storrie who yesterday said that he and Grant are considering resigning.

http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/story?id=733136&cc=5739 Grant and Story going to stay apparently. Not sure about storys claim to be good at finance if he thinks the sale of Kaboul for about £6M net is going to keep them going for two to three months. Hours is more like it!

He's probably annoyed he is not getting his usual cut!

Sounds like he may be going to £8M (before deductions) rather than the £10 offered elsewhere so one would guess that part of the deal for going for less would be more immediate payment.

You wonder of Jobs saw it as a bit of a challenge. Others, notably microsoft, have had a go a tablets and each attempt has failed. To me it does not look like that run will be broken. I am sure they will probably sell more that the microsoft tablets sold but I am not sure the market for 'something on your lap while sitting on the sofa' which it appears the ipad is aimed at is large enough an ecosystem to support its own form factor.

I'm going to take a wild stab in the dark and say "Probably not".

http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/story?id=733095&sec=england&cc=5739 A close associate of Avram Grant has told Soccernet that the Portsmouth manager will be in the dugout at Manchester City on Sunday despite having "had enough" of the situation at Fratton Park. The source revealed that Grant is due to cancel Friday's press conference as he believes answering questions would further damage his slim chances of keeping the club alive in the Premier League. With Younes Kaboul, Asmir Begovic, Aruna Didane and Mike Williamson already on their way out of Fratton Park, Grant is understood to be deeply concerned as he thought that the club would do everything in their power to keep their best players.

More completely unpredictable (yer right!) news. Burnley can't get pompey to reply to their request to extent Nugents loan. Maybe they forgot to pay the phone bill as well as the electricity bill?? http://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/sport/4879108.Nugent_in_limbo_as_communication_is_lost/

Times article interesting http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/football/premier_league/portsmouth/article7007244.ece The club received very little of the £1.6 million reported to remain from their share of the television payout, with the League setting some aside to pay Watford and West Ham United instalments due on the transfers of Tommy Smith and Hayden Mullins respectively. So unlikely the embargo will be back in place before the end of the transfer window. One might even suspect that the PL knew what was coming and did it to make sure they had no involvement nearer the final collapse.

Surely Marcus could spare 2K?

Down, Down, Deeper and Down

Give then time! Though to pass the time till the next blue banana skin I was wondering if we could come up with what would be on the soundtrack album of the film of the book of this thread. And as its Friday maybe some idea's for the cover art as well?

Well their is the possibility that if they don't make some football transfer related payments today the transfer embargo will be reapplied with them only having got in one relatively unknown player.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQnT0zp8Ya4

According to this site (amazingly a link we all missed yesterday) they claim they are actually two winding up orders. One from HMRC and another from these people and another unnamed firm. http://www.credittoday.co.uk/news/news-item.cfm?news=1502 Main point of interest is that the HMRC one might be held up if they have appealed the VAT law but if the other one is separate it will not then stop that one?

Why are they uptight about if Marcus (or his dad) had been a tank driver in the war anyway? SS or similar I could understand but they has conscription during the war as well you know and if you start claiming everyone who either fought for Germany themselves, or that their father fought for Germany, are all Nazi's and nasty people then you have just condemned a large proportion of the German populous.

The board canna take it any more Captain. She gonna blow!

Can't see how they can get past the winding up order personally, even if they make it past the end of this month.

They can't give up now! Not when we are so close to 10,000 posts on this thread.

Wonderful. So who can they sell to pay gaddy and HMRC?

His Bank, Harry's Bank, etc

there is one but so many unpredictable and down right funny things have happened since then it probably needs as update..

(no)payday to be specific.

its on SSN

From todays Guardian fiver newsletter thing.. Obviously having a club website is not the be-all and end-all of life and, as recently as the late 1990s, many football clubs are believed to have been still relaying important team-, ticket- and winding-up order-related news to their fans through more old fashioned information outlets. The town crier was once a popular instrument of information dissemination, and one Portsmouth are believed to be considering if they can find a suitably preposterous looking individual with his own hand-bell.