FloridaMarlin

What sort of mask? One to hide your face, or a surgical one to hide the smell?

It would be interesting to know if any local catering companies are dealing with them to provide the sumptuous pre-match buffet. If my memory serves me correctly, in the previous admin one guy pretty much lost a family catering business built up over 40 years as he was left to scrabble for the crumbs with the rest of the creditors. Back in the days of the Gregory regime when they went into admin, the list of fleeced companies included a local baker who thought he was on to a good thing when the club ordered 5,000 mince pies to dish out for a Boxing Day game, only for him to find that he was whistling for his money. Their record with catering and comestibles providers is not good. You would think that word has finally got around and really, any catering concern who deals with them and doesn't get money up front, really deserves everything it gets. The pre-match sumptuous buffet is likely to consist of taking orders and then nipping out to a burger van on Southsea front.

I can't start threads. Pulis has pitched up in Orlando. http://sportsvibe.co.uk/features/football/brits-abroad-11265/anthony-pulis-on-life-in-orlando-19141/

Why should Portpin/Chanrai sack him? If he is sacked, he gets compensation (or at least joins the queue with everybody else). P*ss him off enough and he'll walk, which will cost Portpin £0. If he does walk he will, of course, immediately be installed in the phew's Pantheon of Heroes. There, he will take his worthy place alongside other legendary figures who are viewed (through blue-tinted specs) to have Done The Right Thing By The Club. He will be installed alongside The Hebrew Hercules, The Ticket-dispensing Titan, The Flame-Haired Hector, The Twitter-Bigot and others who share the common denominator of deserting the club. p****y - the only club where ship-jumping rats are heroes.

"We’re also talking to the Football League to see if there’s any additional support that they can give us until the ownership situation is resolved." p****yspeak for: "We've manufactured this situation where it looks as though we have no players and you risk having your competition subjected to ridicule if you don't allow us to be treated as a special case and be allowed to sign players."

For those p****y fans who issued dire threats that those councillors who voted in favour of the loan would be remembered at the ballot box at the next local election, can I say I heartily agree. They will be remembered by the woman above and thousands more like her who outnumber the football fans on the Island of Dr Moreau. There may have been 200,000 of themon Southsea Common celebrating the Great FA Cup Purchase but that was a day out for most of them. When old, sick and vulnerable people start dying because of the lack of care provision, when vulnerable people are affected by the lack of social care, when rubbish piles up on the street because there's no money to pay the binmen, that's when they'll fondly remember how glad they were the council loaned the football club the money, all so around 12,000 (probably an overestimate) can indulge their hobby once a fortnight.

I liked this bit: "but more importantly the image of our football club being broadcast around the word was worth its weight in gold." The image of your football club is once again being broadcast around the world. What's its weight worth now?

Top Olympic totty for me so far - Ranomi Kromowidjojo, Dutch swimmer. More than a touch of Klass about her.

Presumably, TBH's wages would be subject to PAYE deductions for tax and National Insurance. It might be in p*****'s interest to pay TBH's wages, so they could do what they usually do - trouser the tax and NI contributions. The PAYE on the £2.5m owed to TBH must be a fair sum.

Do they not understand that part of the punishment is indeed to be UNCOMPETITIVE and survive on a shoestring? Er....no, they don't. Incidentally, the official club website makes for some interesting reading, particularly the stuff that's missing. What's happened to the board of directors? Obviously, once the club went into admin, TB effectively becomes the chairman and board. But presumably, the football operation needs to be a properly constituted club for FL rules. Am I right in recalling that under Hampshire FA rules, three officers are necessary to constitute a club: a chairman, a secretary and a treasurer (who would want to take on THAT role at p****y?). So who are the current football club officers required? Will any of the last board of directors be invited back on once the hoo-ha has died down? Also, this makes interesting reading. http://www.portsmouthfc.co.uk/club/personnel.aspx On the playing side, a cash-strapped club still manages to employ: A manager A first-team coach A goalkeeping coach A head of recruitment A strength and conditioning coach A Head of Sports Performance A Head of Performance Analysis An academy manager A kit man (what's old Kev on, these days? I thought his £45,000 a year post was redundant under the previous AA-controlled administration?) That's a minimum of nine. I say a minimum as if there is a Head of Performance Analysis and a Head of Sports performance, it hints there might be somebody working under them. Compare and contrast with Yeovil, whose footballing staff consist of: First Team Manager: Gary Johnson Assistant Manager: Terry Skiverton Goalkeeping Coach: Gareth Stewart Physio: Mike Miccichi Head of Youth: Scott Green Or Bury. Manager:Richie Barker Assistant Manager:Peter Shirtliff Goalkeeping Coach:Anthony Williams Development Coach:Ben Futcher Physio:Tom Walsh Head of Youth:Alan Moore P****y's problem is that they are under the delusion they are still a big club. Certainly bigger than the likes of Yeovil and Bury. FYI P****y, you are in the same division as Yeovil and Bury, and will be playing them this season. I'm sure they would love to have Brian Howard, not to mention a Head of Sports Performance and a Head of Sports Analysis. But then little, piddling clubs like Yeovil and Bury are small-time because they don't think big.

An attitude in complete contrast to the short-termism of H Redknapp. Adkins thinks about the long-term future of the club, either with or without him. Redknapp only ever thinks of what a club can offer him as a vehicle to his personal ambition.

Only two of those may be correct. He may have a beard down to where his penis should be.

Can I respectfully suggest that your bucket list of places to visit include (a) Auschwitz and/or (b) Yad Vashem in Jerusalem. A trip to either of those will reveal to you why the Holocaust should and will never be forgotten, whether you are Jewish or not.

So a club in the process of trying to shed £158m of debt, that threatens players who have the temerity to ask for what they are owed, that will reluctantly cough up 2p in the pound to creditors and local businesses they have gang-raped down the years, stayed at this five-star resort? http://www.barcelo.com/BarceloHotels/en_GB/hotels/Spain/Cadiz/hotel-barcelo-montecastillo-golf/general-description.aspx?ext=UK_SEM_GOB_H256&tmad=c&tmcampid=30&tmplaceref=Spain&gclid=CIm7o4mJwbECFSQhtAodW24AlQ Prices range from 103 Euros per night (for B&B) to 162Euros per night (all inclusive). The resort does 'specialise in hosting football clubs, so there might be some sort of corporate rate, but somebody with better maths than me will be able to work out the total cost based on rates, number of players, flights etc. I could be wrong but I doubt they would have got much change out of £10,000. That's a hell of a generous sponsorship from Dave Ellis and the Gibraltar FA. It would be interesting to know where other League One clubs went to prepare for their close season, you know, those clubs who live within their means and don't have delusions of grandeur that makes them continue to think it's fine and dandy to live beyond their means like some impoverished lord from a PG Wodehouse novel. I liked this: http://www.barcelo.com/BarceloHotels/en_GB/hotels/Spain/Cadiz/hotel-barcelo-jerez-montecastillo-convention-center/football.aspx Which details the football facilities and services. The services include the daily laundry of two sets of football kit, which might well be the first wash the kit has had in months (unless the players take their own kit home to wash). The special facilities also include a half-pitch for goalkeeper training, although it looks as though their whole squad could train on that. The list of teams using the resort gives some idea of how expensive it must be. But no doubt, the phew will extol it as a virtue of the company they are able to keep. Even if the whole trip was paid for, what sort of message does it send out to impoverished creditors and threatened high-earning players - let alone the rest of League One - that they can swan off to somewhere like this. Scandalous. Utterly, utterly scandalous.

Ian Holloway's had a pop in today's Sunday Mirror. Although it is tinged with the usual mushy hearts and flowers stuff about bestest fans not deserving what's happened to them, not letting a great club die, yadda, yadda, yadda, he does say perhaps they deserve to go to the wall to give the game the wake-up call it deserves. He says he agreed a fee of £250,000 with Derby for Luke Varney, but was blown out of the water by Pompey's bid of £750,000. According to Olly, they didn't just go a little bit higher to beat Blackpool's bid, they effectively tripled it! Says Olly: "What we didn't know then that we know now is that it was a transfer and a wage deal that p****y didn't have the cash to finance." He also defends the FP8 (now the FP4). "In recent days there seems to have been some kind of campaign for blaming those players who have refused to cancel their contracts to ease the club's burden. "But those deals were signed in good faith. Players have commitments of their own. To expect them to walk away from contracts is naive and unfair. "The people to blame are the men who mismanaged p****y. No one else." So we can add Olly to the list of Mick McCarthy, Keith Hill and Dean Saunders of well-respected managers who have spoken out against p****y's cheating and blatant attempts to gain an unfair advantage by outbidding those managers' clubs with money they never had.

Cue tasteless, inane and inappropriate jokes concerning Benjamin Doon and Philiip McCracken.

How does Harry know how to get hold of Kanu, when apparently everyone else has failed to raise him from his Nigerian hidey-hole? Something doesn't ring true, and somebody is fibbing. It's either Harry, who won't try or be able to get hold of him, or TB who claims he has tried and failed.

Is this the Ashley Westwood who was brought in as UnAppy's assistant? Surely they haven't tried to bend a rule when they are still under an embargo of signing players?

My son is currently doing a Phd at Oxford University in Genetics (yes, he is a smart arse). He goes a little quiet and vague when I catch up with him and ask him what he does. It's supposedly research into Alzheimer's Disease, which would be great if they can hasten a cure. But I suspect he's growing brains in petrie dishes or something equally disturbing.

I can't help but notice that the piece is headed: 'Pompey Tour Diary." Since when did it become a tour? We were given to understand that this was a one-off match, against a Gibraltar XI, paid for by the Gibraltar FA, and that there would be no cost to p****y. Surely it couldn't be the case that it wasn't true and that they have somehow found some money to fund a pre-season training camp in sunny southern Spain? I'm sure the creditors would give their blessing to that.

It was a toss-up between The Island Of Dr Moreau, or Shutter Island. TIODM just got the vote, although Shutter Island works nicely as well.

I think you'll find that during the rest of the Press Complaints Commission's short lifespan only those affected by a piece of journalism can complain, in other words TBH would have to make the complaint himself. It may sound strange to say, but I think TBH has been quite dignified during this hate campaign against him. Granted, he might be holding a few aces and sitting in a lofty position that a £35,000 a week salary allows, but he probably has plenty of ammo to launch a scathing counter attack. It looks as though he's getting some good advice from Pini: "Just keep schtum, bubbeleh." On another subject, an earlier poster compared the way in which we and p****y view our FA Cup winning teams. Their winning goalscorer was hailed as King Kanu and everyone worshipped at his feet, but now is reviled as a bloodsucking leech. Bobby Stokes will always be revered by Saints fans, probably even more so as a he was a skate. You somehow couldn't see a reverse situation happening on The Island of Dr Moreau.

So do we know yet whether Westwood is really going to be Appy's right-hand man, or whether they are trying to sneak a player under the wire? Might explain why he wasn't at training.

A glance at Google Earth shows there to be a thick conifer hedge like that at Wellington Sports Ground, along Stoneham Lane..