FloridaMarlin

A very close rival newspaper to The News!

He is a Villa fan. Have a guess where his wife works.

Yep, the PL along with the top clubs from La Liga, Bundesliga and other top leagues. The tops clubs go off into a corner, talk quietly to uncle Rupert and emerge with their own European/World League funded by satellite/cable TV for the huge markets in the Far East, in the process telling UEFA and FIFA to stick their international competitions up their pipes. FIFA tell clubs/players "you'll be blackballed" and in a repeat of the Kerry Packer cricket circus, the new competitions says: "We don't care, we've got the best players." This is all about clubs flexing their muscles to show they have the power and players.

Are the club crest hard hats available in the club shop?

They wouldn't pay them off. By 'mutual consent' they expect the players to mutually walk away for nothing. Can't see them getting too many takers for that. I can't see Granddad Kanu or Ron Weasley Kitson walking away from the thick end of half a million. Who would? You can't blame players for clinging on to what they are owed.

Ladies and Gentlemen, I call as principal witness for the prosecution Mr H Redknapp. Doesn't trust kids, doesn't trust any player he hasn't signed. Again, the Stalinist re-writing of history/selective memory of national sports hacks when it comes to matters concerning H Redknapp means his treatment of Gareth Bale when he went to Spurs is almost forgotten. Didn't play him, tried to shove him out on loan and made it clear that he didn't rate Bale. It was only when injuries forced Redknapp to play Bale that he suddenly realised what a good player he is. Redknapp loves to trot out the line about Rio Ferdinand and Joe Cole being part of the West Ham academy but they got their chance despite of Redknapp, not because of him. And why should he take any interest in long-term projects at a club when he usually has a chairman who he can badger to spend large amounts of money on the 30-plus has-beens on big money?

And the Football League's Community Club of the year is a club that actually STEALS from charities.

They're probably confusing you with all the Londoners who have second homes down there. After all, London is north of Southampton. Besides, the Cornish are always jumping up and down about independence, so why not cut them adrift?

I'm afraid not because it's not the same Peter White. This Peter White has never lived in Southampton. He was a freelance for a few national papers in the Midlands and only moved down to the Isle of Wight around 10 years or so ago. The Peter White you know and are thinking about was the BBC's disabled affairs correspondent, as he is blind. Last I knew, he lived in Winchester.

That's something to be grateful for. And you obviously don't read posts properly.

Yucatan peninsula is great, and you can avoid Cancun. Stayed at the all-inclusive Grand Palladium Colonial resort, and it was fantastic. All-inclusive resorts are the way forward. But don't just spend two weeks on a sun-lounger in your resort (unless that's your thing). Get out and about. There is only one road that runs the length of the Yucatan peninsula coast, from Cancun in the north to the Belize border, and it is full of minibuses known as 'collectivos.' Villagers club together to buy a bus, one guy drives, and they split the proceeds from the fares. They're all one fare, if you go the full length from Cancun to Belize, or 200 yards. The resorts want you to go on their organised trips (at a vastly inflated price) and will tell you all sorts of scare stories, which are rubbish as the locals are very protective of tourists. It does them no good if tourists are harmed. Collectivos are great for getting you out of a sanitized resort and down with the locals. You flag one down, get in and sit next to the bloke taking a crate of chickens to the market, and the old lady selling home-made tortillas. We went to Tulum for a day under our own steam. The resort wanted $70 a head for the trip, it cost us 400 pesos - £20 - between us, a fiver either way. For somewhere different, though, try Israel. Again, forget about all the scare stories, and go there with an open mind. Tel-Aviv is a great city with a fantastic beach life, and as it's such a small country, you can get around easily to Jerusalem, the Dead Sea, Sea of Galilee, Bethlehem and all the historical sights. Eilat is a great beach resort down on the Dead Sea, and now you can go to Petra (in Jordan) and Egypt. And it's certainly bloody hot in the summer.

Hooray, Harry Pearson gets it, regarding Redknapp. Tucked away in this piece http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/blog/2012/feb/16/steve-claridge-football-tactics Six paragraphs in: "Harry Redknapp is the people's choice, though not apparently in Portsmouth where some fans irrationally blame him for the club's current financial difficulties. What utter nonsense. The fact that every club Harry has ever been in charge of – Bournemouth, West Ham, Southampton, Pompey – has stumbled into a financial quagmire after he left is actually the surest indication there could possibly be of the canniness of his stewardship."

"Alexis, who uses a wheelchair, is waiting to hear from the club whether there is a space available for her in the stadium’s disabled access area." So although she's bought her ticket, she may not be able to get into the game. If there is no room for her, will her ticket money be refunded?

Health & Safety might need to look if the decrepit old stands can take their weight.

Some great tales about Buddha, as Brian O'Neill was known. I used to play for a Sunday football team and one of the Irish lads who played said one of the lads on the building site he was working on was looking for a game. "He says he's played to a half decent standard," said our Irish dThe only efender, to which we replied: "Bring him along and we'll see what he's like." Imagine our surprise when he turned up the following Sunday with Buddha in tow. The problem was that Brian forgot his boots, so we had to scrabble around to find him a pair. Every week that Brian played, he "forgot" his boots and it was only when Mick Channon's autobiography came out years later that the truth came out. Channon and O'Neil would spend every Friday before a game going through the boot hamper to find Brian a pair as Channon said Buddha was the only professional footballer he ever knew who did not own a pair of boots. For somebody who was one of the most fearsome tacklers in the game (and once picked up a record eight-week ban, if my memory serves me correctly) there were a few times he cost us goals on a Sunday morning by pulling out of 50-50 challenges. When asked why, his reply was: "Guys at this level don't know how to tackle properly and if I went in to tackle them I'd break their legs, and they've got to go to work on a Monday morning like me." For the season he played for us, our tactic was simply to win the ball, and get it up front so we could contrive to roll it into his path anywhere within 40 yards of the goal. He rarely let us down. Don't know about Terry Paine;s trousers, but Ballie once made the fatal mistake of taking his watch off and leaving in on the table before nipping to the loo as he, O'Neill and Channon were having a Sunday lunchtime session at the Fox and Hounds in Fair Oak. He returned to find the back off his rather expensive watch and all the cogs and springs floating around at the bottom of a pint of lager. There is a rather sad and dark story about Buddha when he was attacked in the north-east. I won't go into details on here, but he ended up fighting for his life in hospital.

Or as it's known in Yorkshire, T'lion, T'witch and T'wardrobe.

The reason why Kev the kitman is on big money is because he is ex special forces. I don't think he was. He's a former Royal Marine, nothing more (although I wouldn't want to belittle the Marines). He boxed for Wales in the 1990 Commonwealth Games in Auckland. He didn't even need to take part in a box-off to get into the team, he was the only Welsh boxer over the 13st weight limit. He lost in his first contest and so the rest of the games became an all-expenses paid holiday for him.

And I suppose I should also get around to changing my name on here at sometime.

I'm a fan. But you probably guessed that.

"In simple terms, expenditure has exceeded income in a large way predominantly due to handing out unsustainable salaries to players on long-term contracts." Players that are on long-term contracts, are still with the club, and will probably keep them out of relegation. That's called cheating, I think.

They will pay his accommodation and he will stay at the Portsmouth Marriott, where they always put up players. They might well have some sort of corporate deal, but current minimum rates per night is from £85 pppn. That's for a standard room and as we know, pro footballers are not accustomed to 'standard' so he'll be in a superior room at £195 per night (including brekkie, though). Of course, any corporate deal they might have with the hotel might depend on them paying their previous bills.

Does this mean Liam Lawrence can get his leg scanned now?

Sitting in press boxes does give you an advantage, and it's easy to punctuate this with the CLANG!! or names being dropped. You rub shoulders with all sorts of famous ex-players - Gullitt, Leonardo - who are working as pundits, before games. But my favourite people who have ponced their way into press boxes include Robert Plant at Wolves, Michael Grade at Charlton, and Billy Crystal at New York Mets (but then he does own a chunk of the club). Oh, and I once got into a lift with Merlene Ottey in Barcelona.

Or d) because the Football League are getting ready to throw a large and hefty book with sharp corners at them? I like the first sentence: "The Football League has accused Portsmouth's former owner Vladimir Antonov of misleading the football authorities." No football governing body, whether it's the FA, The Football League, or the Southampton Sunday League, likes being conned or lied to. They feel it undermines their authority and basically sticks two fingers up at them. My guess is that the FL are not very happy with PFC. The Cheats' attempts to shuffle the blame on to them quicker than a game of pass the parcel at an Al Qaeda birthday party, has forced the FL's hand into admitting they were lied to. I don't think that will sit well with the FL. I think they might be just be giving the Cheats enough rope to hang themselves.

They must be like a cocker spaniel's ears, now.