The Kraken

I love it when pap gets the bit between his teeth! To be fair pap, you really should be getting batted out of the park on this one, what with the sheer weight of available evidence, conjecture, photographs, video and whatever else that suggest the moon landings did indeed happen. But I feel Charlie and his pals are dropping the ball far too often and thereby weakening an otherwise very strong argument.

Apparently the club have decided that, unless they can wear the full white (i.e. including white shorts and socks) then it won't be worn at all. Chelsea wear white socks so we'd definitely have to change there. Villa have white shorts which might require a change. And West Ham have white shorts so might have required a change. Against Norwich its possible; although the contrast of yellow v white may not be enough and the ref might ask for the home strip to be worn.

Why would we give out 3,000 more tickets than we had to? Other clubs know well enough that its a bad idea to do so (even most of those who can't fill their large grounds).

The PDT not coming out too healthily from all this over on POL.

I don't need asking twice!! Back in a few minutes.....

Portpin aren't even vying for the club to be sold to them; they're happy for Gulifoyle to continue the administration until the end of the season and find a buyer in that time. So the PDT can't even pull the "Portpin won't pass the Owners & Directors Test" card; with Chinny's new stance, he doesn't have to. Chinny really is a wily old fox! "My position is secured; I will get my money back".

The request has been made; its up to the judge to decide to grant it, surely?

And perhaps a pertinent point from that: There is a late development this evening that the solicitors acting on behalf of the administrators, PKF have requested an adjournment as they have a major problem with their case.

Someone on POL has typed up what Brendan Guilfoyle told SSN.

From POL:

Sorry, I'm confused. I've got it wrong that an adjournment and a settlement are entirely different things? A settlement cannot happen until there is adjournment; is that what you're saying?

Ah ok. Is there a link for that, Charlie?

Just watching the programme on C5+1. It got to the bit about the crosshairs in photos (and I'd seen this issue before) whereby the astronauts are supposed to be behind the crosshairs which are there to line up the cameras; but in 4 or 5 shots there is obvious photo manipulation and the crosshairs appear (in places) behind certain images and astronauts. What's the answer to that one? There's no way those photos could have been taken as they appear without photographic manipulation.

Yes, but an adjournment and a settlement are two different and entirely separate things. The settlement happens in the background, which then leads to an adjournment when both parties agree there is no need to go to court. F*ck it; I'm plugging in to POL for updates.

Well that's a great answer. For me; I am and always have been 99% sure that the moon landings actually happened. But of course 1% of me is a cynic. As you rightly point out though; there is no evidence that can put to bed the argument forever. And there are enough people who were associated with the project in the first place that don't believe to add fuel to the fire. Space and stuff is great, isn't it??!!!

According to POL the lawyers know nothing about it, PKF have announced the adjournment. Despite my previous post, I'm actually starting to think that Chinny has pulled out. If he goes to court and loses he has to pay court costs for the other side; if he pulls out Tricky Trev will just accept the £2.75M offer and take the court costs and his excessive fees from whats left of the (parachute payments) cash in the bank.

The thing is; he's instructed lawyers and they must have undertaken a significant amount of (paid) research just to get this far. And they have a formal offer from the PDT for £2.75M. Would a valuation from the court change that offer? Don't know, but it seems like Birch is going to court to make Portpin accept the PDT's offer, not a random valuation that the court may choose to pick. Portpin wanted an adjournment (and were previously denied one according to POL) so, while it seems the likeliest cause, I wouldn't be too quick to assume that its a Portpin withdrawal that has caused this.

They also built a 42,000 seater stadium and rapidly increased it to 49,000. So we shouldn't rule that out either.

He is one though. Great musician, mind.

Good point. Arsenal won the Markus Liebherr cup wearing this kit... Which is actually less stripey than Ajax, so pretty pointless from me really....

Maybe when we wore the sash?? But I'd be amazed if we actually did at any point.

Pap: out of interest, is it just the moon landings that you think NASA (might) have faked? Or does the conspiracy run deeper? Were the Pioneer and Voyage projects a hoax also, and the pictures of Jupiter and Saturn an elaborate computer generated ruse? The International Space Station, well that was visible from earth at times so a bit tough to fake that one. How about the Mars rover; there's no evidence that actually landed, is there?

I doubt they're contractually obliged; but all pro footballers are made aware of their responsibilities to the community. And, to be fair, almost all footballers do far more community and charity work than is ever reported by the press. In any case, contractual or not, their visit has had a great effect and it great to see the photo with Nigel and everyone and their big old smiles (although some of the smiles also seem to be saying "come on its bloody freezing out here, get on with it!").

Ah, it was only a handful, and they were groaning. I see.

They really are such a sad deluded lot. Some QPR fans said on their message board (after we played them at Loftus Road) that Saints were the best away fans there in years. Yet you don't see some crusade to say how wonderful we are and the best in the land. It's really quite pathetic that Pompey fans choose to do it (while glossing over the many teams who think they're quite ordinary) and quite sad how many choose to believe their own hype that they really are something special. I've been to Fratton twice this season, with a mate of mine as a scout, so have seen them from a neutral perspective. First game of the season against Bournemouth, fair play they made a decent racket for a lot of the game. I also saw them against Swindon and they got outsung by 1,500 away fans. The reality just doesn't match their own hype.