The Kraken

Now you've done it. Don't ask him if he ever served. It's a bit like asking him why as he never goes to Saints games he still feels the need to pontificate on all things Saints from a distance with an air of ignorance and beligerence.

Don't lie. It's because he's a darkie, isn't it?

How have you even got a clue it is racist from even one of them, let alone all of them?

Statement from Trevor Birch: You're all great. You're all brilliant. You're all so wonderful. I love this club. By the way, I'm bringing Chainrai back......

Dalek will be delighted. Or he would be if he wasn't a spamming moron.

Personally I never needed "closure". I'm not even sure what it means. I didn't like getting relegated from the PL. I didn't like struggling and then getting relegated from the Championship. But, we were in League 1 for 2 years and I'll be damned if I look back on those times as anything but a really good time. I went o more games per season than I'd been to before; I went to grounds I'd not been to; I mixed with some proper, real fans of decent clubs; and we won a cup and a promotion in two years. If you can't find fun in supporting that then there's something wrong. The Premier League is where its all that, no doubting that, and the objective is to get back there as soon as possible. But I'll never try to erase or diminish our achievement so far in falling from grace, and then rebuilding ourselves. And the fact its been such an enjoyable ride makes our slip from the top a little easier to stomach.

I think the Skates have washed their hands of him after he upset the delusional few by asserting that they had cheated their way to the FA Cup. They don't like a healthy dose of reality down that way, apparently.

Adam Lallana seems to disagree with you. From his twitter feed last night: "Away win, Lambo on flames! Injury not bad at all! Away end sold out again #COYR"

According to that Manish guy, Claridge was "out of his seat" for the second goal. Definitely a closet Saints fan.

It really is.

We are.

I would say its almost impossible that the two haven't crossed paths before, being as Birch conducted the due diligence for the sale of the club to CSI. As such I'm sure he would have gained a working knowledge of everything that has been going on at PFC, and probably how AA has simply been acting as a puppet for Chainrai. Its an obvious act of desperation from AA; whether a complaint can actually ensure that Birch is removed from the post, i don't know, he's been appointed by a court of law and short of an appeal directly to that court surely a complaint can only be some form of mud-slinging exercise. But then I'm clearly no legal-eagle, so what do I know?

That is indeed unforgivable. And while Nick Illingsworth has indeed done that in past, in his guise on Solent he is simply representing himself as the editor of online fanzine The Ugly Inside. And he is very welcome to his voice in that guise IMO.

Exactly right. WBA may be paying wages but there will be additional coasts to Pompey involved; travel expenses, living expenses, even his training kit etc, its an additional cost, however large or small it may be. So the first thing they have done since enerting administration is to increase their costs. Brilliant. Insolvency laws in this country surrounding football clubs really are an utter joke.

I think it more likely that they simply haven't tried hard enough. Even if they loaned out and paid a large percentage of Tal Ben Haim et al's wages, they would save themselves thousands of pounds per week. The simple fact is they saw that as too hard a decision to make and opted not to do it. They had interest in their players from Ipswich, who of course baulked at the wages, but there was never any discussion to come to an arrangement over it. Thankfully the national media have now cottoned on to the sheer absurdity of it all and are more than happy to point out the cheating nature of it all.

Definitely!!!!!!! I would ROFL all over the floor if I saw that!!!!!!

I thought there was a payment plan for season tickets this season? Or have I imagined that?

Not for you, Limpdick, I imagine the P45 will be in the post very soon.

The -10 should be run of the mill; I'd suggest any further points will be dependent upon what the administrator finds, and how (if?) they come out of admin with a CVA or not. We know what Chanrai declared the debts to be, so we'll now likely see what they actually are. And then whether the likes of HMRC are willing to again accept less than full repayment of all debts.

Agreed; with a proper administrator in there, for once they will actually be genuinely looking to cut costs and live within their means. Thoroughly hard to do when you have so many inflated salaries on the books, of course. And no transfer window to bring in funding. I'm still very surprised they were allowed into administration, given that even the judge admitted they weren't breaking even. The incoming parachute payments have probably saved them for now, but I'd say they are nowhere near out of the woods yet. Trevor Birch will have some very tough decisions to make, and as euphoric as the Skates are now, they may not like what's destined to happen. And liquidation is still a very real possibility, though I'd say much less so than before today.

Still could; the administrator will look to cut costs where he can, which could/should mean he'll look to loan out the high earners. Even if they agreed to pay half their wages while out on loan that would save them £10K a week for the likes of Kitson and £18K a week for Ben Haim. Whether they'll find clubs stupid enough to pay even half of those super-inflated salaries is another matter altogether.

You're kidding? With an open and honest administrator there, the potential for exposing the previous regimes corruption and underhandedness is overwhelming. This could be just the start of the fun!

He wasn't going to fund it anyway, even if it had been UHY appointed, he was only going to loan the money (and probably as a secured loan so that he'd get it back in full plus interest). The Skates will of course be happy about this outcome; but then it does raise the possibility of any previous dirty dealing being identified and presented to the FL, which could have very serious consequences if Luton are anything to go by. Plenty of mileage left in this one yet, I feel.

Transparent Tony Pulis looks pretty happy with it.