Micky

There's not a lot about our qualification for Europe mentioned anywhere....

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This. Got to take the rough with the smooth. Think back 3, 4 seasons ago. Enjoy. Sent from my HTC Desire using Tapatalk

Sounds bad - reckon he'll be gone by this time tomorrow.

This is how I work as well, I have a co credit card for all expences and I book all of my own hotels, flights and hire cars. I have daily limits for food, but I'd be a right fat b@st@rd if I was to use the lot..! Unfortnately I don't have any booze allowance - but hey ho, can't have it all. Finding a decent hotel with free wifi these days is not too difficult, and at the end of the day, if you have to pay, then just pay for a couple of days during your trip. Funnily enough - as I type I am currently on business in the UK, in a fairly crappy hotel, on their free wifi....!!!

Up until this month, I have flown to europe every month for probably about the last 6 years for work, generally staying a week at a time - sometimes longer. There is much good advice above but really it just gets to be the norm. I didnt use airport lounges although I did use priority boarding. Dependant on where you work the flight is not likely to be much longer than an hour and a half anyway - then you have the travelling before and after the flight. I was in a routine, so much so that I used to go to the loo at the same time after check in, eat at the same place in the airport and the like. As a business traveller you will grow to loath holiday travellers...!!! Hotel stipulations - free wifi access, free parking, decent food, generally clean tidy and that will do. If you get free wifi - contact with home is not a problem. It can be a lonely existance sometimes especially if you are staying over the week ends - but I enjoyed it, despite the pitfalls. If you are hiring cars - as I did every trip, take out your own independant insurance or check to see if your co has its own and dont forget to have personal medical insurance as well. As for the flying thing - lets face it its gotta be fairly safe - Derry never pranged one in 18000 hours...!

Is this the Saints Takeover Saga thread.....????

Me too, thought he was awful against Udinese on Saturday as well.

I think it's a Liverpudlianism, Pap will probably put me right, "you know what I mean like".

Shocking, sad and incomprehensible.

I have an HTC Desire, which when I first got it I thought was the bees knees. It is still a very nice handset, but I am now plagued with the constant "Low on space" notification even though all apps that can be loaded onto the sd card are. That appart though it is a nice bright and easy to use handset once you get used to it. My company phone though is the same as eurosaint recommends, a Samsung Galaxy Ace, and although not the same screen quality of the HTC - it is a very nice handset. Found it easy to use and set up, probably does all and more of what your wife needs to do. As for battery life, my HTC needs charging every night, and although I dont use the Samsung as extensively - I think the battery would probably go 2 days between charges in normal use.

With all due respect VW the boys and girls deserve much better on this occasion. Yeah they can rough it with the best of them, I've slept in some pretty crap dank and dingy places in my time - but generally when exercising or on operations. This is the single biggest sporting event in the world - there are literally thousands of people working to make it happen. I bet not a single civilian is sleeping in a car park - not one. If anything this was a chance to actually reward the Forces personnel for their efforts in Operational Theatres by making this a bit of a 'jolly' for them - but no - we failed there too. Yeah they can hack it, and they will - but given the money and luxuries being meted out to the rest of the organisational staff - this is embarrassing. Our country really doesn't deserve our Armed Forces.

This really is so, so sad. Anybody who has any clout, responsibility or organisational power on the Olympic Committee should hang their heads in shame. The problem is though, what is even sadder still, is that I am in no way surprised about this news. Disgrace, absolute ****ing disgrace.

"I'm loving this thread"

I get the same impression, big bad turkish normally knocks them over, then one of the little boys normally comes and kicks them in the bollux while they are down. You get the picture.

Yo, go Pap go....!!!! If you've suffered loss of earnings because of their incompetence (and the fact that they have now ceded in this matter is testimony to the fact that they were incompetent), a realistic compensation claim for time spent administering this case and any loss of other contractual earnings would not seem unreasonable.

Interesting interview, especially the parallels drawn between those Pompey players who could write 'their names in history', just as in the 1980's, when those players from Bristol City, or was it Town, no City I think - you know, those players that, actually nobody even remembers anymore, tore up their contracts. Absolutely classic.

I wouldn't, the laughing man wants to smack you apparently. Be afraid, be very afraid.

Did they keep up....?

That would cost money - we don't have any money, we spent all the money, all £300 million of it on the security company that these boys and girls are now bailing out. We have no money to help out these guys now. You can bet your bottom dollar that none of the atheletes, officials, politicians, organisers, hangers on or general olympic scroungers are living anywhere near in these conditions. Olympic Vilages, best hotes is my guess. Yet this is what we afford those people who, at the end of the day, sacrifice most for us. Bring on the next round of Military redundancies.....

Oh right - long day, the saga is too long for me to keep track now. I take it the letter is a plant, spoof, windup, fake....... whatever.....

A letter, apparently doing the rounds on Facebook, which I have just lifted off of thier fansonline site. You may be enjoying their demise but you have to feel for fans such as these - this is the real reason why liquidation and a new start is the only right and proper outcome to this whole stinking mess. "A letter from a Pompey Fan: Dear Pompey (whatever comany you are this 1/4er) Your urgent request poped up on my RSS feed calling for CVA 2010 creditors to get in touch, so I felt obliged to contact you, although im not sure why really after the way PFC treats its local community, business partners and sponsors. ( http://www.portsmouthfc.co.uk/Latest...tors-3538.aspx ) So, you want me to confirm I am satisfied that the club I used to love ruined my life? How about a little background... I would like to point out that I was a victim in the previous Portsmouth 2010 administration, and as such I no longer run my freelance photography business as a result of the clubs collapse. A few thousand pounds may not mean much in the world of football but to a one man band like myself it is enough to ruin you. I now work in a shop, but at least I managed to keep my mortgage repayments up. Now, as you are aware us creditors were pushed (I wont go as far as blackmailed) into accepting a CVA which payed a dividend of 20% of the original debt. The payment schedule was over a period of five years, however our first installment was pushed back to 2012. This was never going to solve the problems this administration had placed on my business, as a sole trader I knew it would finish me off either way and as such I simply voted with little care for myself. Whilst I found it incredibly disturbing and deeply insulting to see the club continuing to sanction player purchases and associated salaries, I understand football and the nature of the beast of remaining competitive so it was something I had to accept, even though I was unable to continue my freelance work with the club. To see the club go back into administration again this season was simply staggering, and discovering they had racked up more dozens of millions of debt, whilst never getting round to paying mine or any other poor souls from the creditors meetings a penny of our dividend, left me in a state of almost shock. I am currently receiving correspondence from PKF regarding the 2012 administration (despite having to wind my business up), and I am told the original 2010 CVA debt will now be diluted into a 2012 CVA, and as such the 20% dividend will now be 2% of 20%. What a generous offer from Mr Chainrai! As a result my original debt in full will have gone from approximately £3000 to £12, and more importantly without my consent this time round. Not that I really had a say last time round, as Andronikou kept finding more debts to the point he magically produced the 75% he needed to stop HMRC liquidating the club. That is absolutely scandalous and I cant help but think that if I tried to behave like that, I would be in prison by now! As I have mentioned, I had to wind my business (and dreams) up so the debts owed to me are irrelevant what ever percentage they finally decide this time round. So thats my background. Now I will consider your question again, am I in favour of CVA MKI being diluted into CVA MKII without my consent? Let me highlight the financial consideration again: £3000 * 20% * 2% = £12 (with no consent) How about you go and choke. You can shove your CVA and stick your proposals on an expensive trip to Gibraltar. My life is in ruins because of your behaviour, I want to see PFC struck right down to the lowest level of the game, only then will I continue to support the club I formerly loved that destroyed everything I had built up. I sincerely hope you can understand quite how much distress this has cause myself and my family. Regards P*** ****** PFC fan 1965 - 2010"

Watching the CEO, Nick Buckles getting grilled by the Commons Home Affairs Select Committee today was quite embarrassing really - he didn't seem to have a clue as to what was going on. That said - I probably wouldn't actually expect him to - G4S is a massive company and his 'chiefs' should have been giving him some top cover in this fiasco. But it appears that they didn't. I actually now wonder about the wisdom of tendering this requirement as a single contract to a single company. It requires a vast amount of people to be interviewed, vetted, trained, hired and positioned - really quite a daunting process. Yes it is evident that G4S were trying to do it on a shoestring, and there is little doubt that they have failed miserably. But had this contract been divided up and awarded to say 4 or 5 different companies, I think that things might have gone a lot better. Either way, Mr Buckle took a lot of flak today, and rightly so: http://news.sky.com/story/961037/g4s-boss-acknowledges-humiliating-shambles So whilst G4S stumble on, guards fail to show up for work, our Police Forces and Military will 'soldier on', as they always do, and always will. There is a very good comment on the sky news link above - only a 1 liner, and although not directly related to this fiasco, it will come back to haunt the Government. sarabee 5:11 PM on 17/7/2012 You think this is bad? Wait until the Army logistics are 'out-sourced'. This should be a wake up call before our troops are left in the lurch. I really hate to say this but IMO never a truer word has been said, in times of need HM Forces have come to the aid of the public, and rightly so in most cases. Unfortunately I really cannot see that outsourcing logisical operations to support the Military will work in quite the same way.

Whilst the MoD has a remit to provide MACP (Military Aid to the Civil Power) I tend to agree with Alpine to a certain extent - many of our service men and woman have been shat on - plain and simple. Operation Olympics was planned for many months ago, thus those units providing people would have had a good idea of the remit to be filled. No problem - people would have be warned off, leave, holidays and personal commitments could be catered for. To get this close to 'the off' and then radically change the requirement puts a huge burden on HM Forces. Many will have just completed operational tours (been away from home for 6 months), many would have booked familiy holidays (loss of funds), many will just have been expecting to work as normal - and that has all now changed. Also - consider the knock on effect. It doesn't only affect those extra 3500 troops, the duties and military commitments that they were expected to do at their bases will still have to be done - which effectively means the guys/gals left behind also have to work harder, more duties, more pressure. We used to have the best Armd Forces in the world - we are slowly flogging the life out of them, each and every one of them deserve a whole lot better. As I understand it G4S are rumoured to be losing some £50 million of the contract value - how many of you would agree that this money should be divided up and given to the soldiers who are currently filling the huge void left in the original civilian contract. Civilian Aid to the Civil Community and Civil Powers, yes - but let's not take the pi ss out of our finest.

Great move - will be just like a new signing for us.