Whitey Grandad

Pompey get 45% of the gate profits which is presumably more than they would get for their share of the tickets so we only hand over the extra. By that time this may be to an administrator, or receiver.

I thought that the ref picked on him a bit, there were others that he let off for worse. The yellow was a bit harsh, he won the ball but it was from behind and maybe the ref thought he needed to calm the game down. There was another incident where the MK player ran straight into Thomas who was standing stock still and yet the ref gave him a long lecture. For the incident with Lallana he was no more involved than any other player.

That still gives them 2 hours to find £7.5m

Indeed. The background to all this is the FA insisting on all football debts taking priority and HMRC no longer being preferential creditors.The club has received money in the last few weeks and presumably none of it has gone to HMRC so now they are playing hardball.

I can't see it going beyond the court hearing.

ACAS may be worth a call: http://www.acas.org.uk/index.aspx?articleid=816

Thanks. I read 'ROBED' as 'ROBBED'

I think the papers said high court in London

I'm no expert (on this sort of thing) but I think it can go right up to the time they meet the judge.

There might still be a case for constructive dismissal if the terms and conditions of employment are unilaterally changed significantly, e.g. halved and back-dated. There may also be a case if the correct procedures are not followed. There needs to be 12 months employment, but don't forget that the notice period comes within this so if a company dismisses somebody after 11 months the 12 months rule still applies. I'm sure there is some free advice out there from the public services.

If we get a bye, do we still get the prize money?

'Candide' - Je l'ai lu, et en français, d'ailleurs.

There is also the wider picture to consider. Winding up the club might well result in receiving less money than waiting for staged payments, but it would send a big message to all the others that are stalling on paying their taxes. It's one thing that I was taught when I started in business: always pay your taxes.

If it's not in the contract the backdating is a no-no. The same applies to most of the others, it all depends on the contracts of employment.

Right.... if you can get a look at their medals they will be inscribed with their names and regiments. Go to the National Archives at Kew - entrance and parking free - and look at the medal rolls to see where they served and with with regiment/ship etc. Then find the batallion war diaries for that regiment. They will give you the day by day account of what they were up to. If you're lucky you may be able to find their military records, although a lot were lost in the Blitz. Go to the Large Documents room and you can call up the maps of the trenches that were prepared by the Ordnance Survey for the whole of the Western Front from the Channel to the Alps. They are large scale and everything is grid-referenced to the nearest 50 metres. The Allied trenches are marked in blue and the Germans in Red and they stretch back for miles from the front line. These grid references are given in the War Diaries so you can see on the maps where the actions happened. You can also call up the plans for each battle and the reports that were made just after. Officers are sometimes mentioned by name but Other Ranks are just listed by quantity. It's a fascinating insight into war history, the amount of planning and logistics that went into it are unbelievable. Good luck, and happy hunting! http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/records/looking-for-subject/firstworldwar.htm?WT.lp=rg-3065

That's what it said in the Sunday paper (either Mail or Times). They also gave the resulting Premier table if they went into administration (-9 points) or were wound up (results expunged)

I've had a couple of guided tours and in the manager's office there is a luftwaffe photograph. I seem to remember that it had words to that effect and that is what they had told me previously. Hamble terminal was also the source for the PLUTO pipeline that supplied the D-Day landings. The pieline heads are still there.

The oil terminal at Hamble was also a no-bomb zone. The Germans wanted to keep it for when they invaded.

Dear Lord, make us Premier League - but not yet!

Have a look at his medals. It should be engraved on them. Then it's the National Archives at Kew, well worth a visit.

Looking through our family history I found a few military connections. My wife's grandad was a cavalryman and served in the Boer War in the 7th Hussars and the 1st WW in the Hampshire Regiment. My dad had two brothers in WW1, one in the army and the other in the Navy. We also used to have a letter from my grandad's brother Albert who was killed at Arras a couple of weeks after writing it. From what he wrote I was able to locate the actions he described on the large-scale maps held at Kew and read about them in the Battalion War Diaries. I then visited the fields where he still lies, grave unknown. Some years ago my sister came across a barman with the same surname as us and got talking to him. He was trying to find out about his father who had been killed in WW1 leaving him as a one-year old with no father. She went back later and gave him the letter that his father had written. He had no photographs or memorabilia so this was the only thing that he had to conect him to his old man. I was also fortunate to be able to visit the grave of my father's cousin at El Alamein cemetry. He was 23 and killed on the 4th day of the battle. We will remember them.

Interesting article in the Mail, says we would have a bye if they are wound up. In the paper today they also give the tables if they enter administration with -9 points and also if they fold and all their results so far are expunged. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-1249088/Portsmouth-FC-Born-1898-died-2010-Financial-meltdown-spell-end-proud-Fratton-Park-club-112-years.html

"It's a relatively small amount of money for us" What a put-down!

I wonder if there are wayleaves over the surrounding land? I know that there is access on the south side but would that be enough for safe access to the 'stadium'.

The company is a separate legal body so the ownership of the shares is not relevant, IMO.