Whitey Grandad

Let's call it Flattened Park.

If we signed all those we might get a decent first eleven out of them.

Thanks, SoldTo, those are interesting figures. What is the end date of the accounting period for those? I assume that they are a standard limited company and not a PLC?

Are you on commission? These damned agents get everywhere

Red Sea might be worth a look. I've not been myself but a friend says that the snorkelling and diving is unbeatable. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/offertypeshub/article-1209482/Red-Sea-Sharm-el-Sheikh.html

As I understand it, Gaydamak owns the land around the ground and there is a separate loan secured against the ground - £15m?

Well you can't have our billionaire, he's not for sale. I just assumed that those 5 were you and your associates. Seriously though, I hope that things get sorted out for you one way or another, there's nothing worse than sitting around waiting for bad news and being powerless to do anything about it. I had a cartoon once that said 'I feel so much better now that I've given up hope'. Relax and accept the inevitable. :cool:

What advantage is there in this 'priority'? To be able to guarantee a ticket to a game that will never be a sell-out? I have the best view in the ground and I have persevered with my season tickets even through all the rubbish that we have endured in the last few seasons because I wanted to keep that position. There is another important point that the club will miss out on a lot of ticket sales from ST holders who would normally have gone to this game if they could have bought their usual seat.

Yes, we knew that, but I think you've missed the point. One of the benefits of buying a ST, and thereby supporting the club financially, is that you will have priority on buying tickets for all cup games as is explicitly stated in the new supporters' charter. Quite clearly in this instance this has not happened. The seats in question have been offered for general sale without the STs having an earlier opportunity to purchase them. What on earth was the point of giving ST holders one week priority for buying seats in another part of a stadium which was expected to be less than half full?

Thanks, I couldn't find it when I looked before. Yours is funnier because it involves Pompey.

In my experience whenever you start getting this sort of excuse after excuse you go round and grab whatever you can lay your hands on before eryone else does the same.

Usually it means that loans to the company are converted into a shareholding thus diluting any other ownership. In the case of Chelsea I am not familiar with their current set-up.

Judge not, lest ye be judged...

I think that's more to do with players' contracts. It has been suggested that they are void after 3 missed payments which would mean that the players concerned become free agents with no transfer value. However I did see another reference which suggested 3 months without being paid, so who knows?

But enough for the Itchen, Kingsland and maybe some of the corners?

The expression used in the papers was 'converted', whatever that means. Presumably debt for equity?

If we go into the match with expectations of an easy victory then I suspect that we will be turned over. I'd settle for any sort of win and certainly don't want a replay. On second thoughts, I've never been to Kenilworth Road.

They quoted me 16K expected on the 7th December.

Brilliant! Does anybody know the link to the Rupert version?

ST holders do have priority but that's not much good for a low-attendance match where they cannot buy their usual seat, is it? Closing parts of the ground is a commercial necessity but closing the central Kingsland which is the best stand in the ground seems to be commercial lunacy to me.

I accept that this is a commercial decision for the club, but we've just received the supporters' charter which explicitly states that 'for home cup fixtures, season ticket holders will be given a priority period to claim their seat.' Apart from that, the club will have lost a sizeable number of ticket sales from regulars who would normally have attended.

Do the breweries still do free tours? There were two when we went there in 1969, Amstel and Heineken. We did the Amstel one and got absolutely plastered, all for free including Hula-hoops and liver-sausage nibbles. We then staggered round the Museum of Mankind and then went to the zoo and I didn't start to sober up until I got to the chimpanzees cages. The rest is a bit of a blur... Oh - use the trams where possible. It used to be a ticket for 10 rides, each of which was valid for 45 minutes. You must remember to 'stamp' it in the machine when you board. The tourist office is just outside the main railway station, at least it was 40 years ago.

I haven't found the Premier League sanctions but according to the Daily Mail it's -9 points for entering administration: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-1239404/On-brink-Portsmouth-sell-David-James-Co-stay-business-6m-tax-shock.html

The proposed carpark was reduced in size because it would have taken several hours to empty it.

If a football club wants to make extra money from property development or building a retail park then there is nothing to stop them, it doesn't have to be co-located with the ground.