Micky

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.

I hate to say it, racist or not - but I bloody hate black nets, don't know why but they just looks so shyte.

At leaste we now know who Corporate Ho is.....

I don't see why everybody is getting their knickers in a twist over the OP - factually it is correct. With our resources, there is little doubt that we will be chasing Man City this season, pretty obvious really. That said - we'll probably by 16 - 18 places behind them at the finish, but we will be chasing.

My 'other' computer is in fact my work laptop so couldn't rig it to my personal desktop pc. But acting on your advice I went and got my Father in laws pc and slaved my 'faulty' hdd to that - phew - found all my files in tact. I then unplugged my FIL's HDD which defaulted my 'faulty' drive to master and his pc booted off of my hdd - it did show a quick error - but booted into windows nontheless. I then took my FIL's drive out of his pc and installed it into mine - low and behold - it wouldn't boot. Didnt get the same error code - but it definately was heading that way. Ergo - it would appear that this is in fact a hardware problem. Have removed all of the cards, drives etc and given the machine a good cleaning - tried booting without the extra graphics and sound card and used different memory modules all to no effect. Can't suss it. Not really too bothered now - all I wanted was the data and I now know that I can get that. On the up side Mr Mickys only option is to be sanctioning the purchase of a new pc .....! Result I guess.

Thanks for the help so far people, still had no luck with it though. Does anybody know if this could be hardware related - pc seems to just freeze after about 3 - 4 mins no matter what I am trying to do? A long shot I know - but thats how it seems.

Thanks pap - that's more or less where I started to be honest - but no luck. Cant get to the boot screen. Long story - but no Windows XP disc, No recovery discs (didn't realise I had to burn them myself - well stuffed now the PC has gone pete tong), can't get it to boot at all. HDD full of thousands of photos, large music collection and countless other documents and suchlike. Does anybody know of a good data recovery program or good data recovery firm and costs ...?

Ahhhhh the shirt thread, on page 43. Impressive lads, impressive.......

I know that we have a few PC 'techies' on here - anybody help with this one? Vista HE. Have bought and downloaded Spotmau PowerSuite 2012 which claims to be able to 'boot any pc' - as yet it has failed with mine. Would appreciate any pointers please.

FFS GWC we were told only a couple of pages ago that this shirt has complete erased our identity - and then you come out with this... FFS.

One of the funniest threads I have read in ages - hopefully it makes it into the Golden Post section. Judging by some of the comments on here perhaps you should understand it is merely a shirt. The players won't be premiering it at a Versace fashion show in Paris, but hopefully sweating blood in it our opening game at SMS. It's a shirt. Oh - that from one of the older posters who apparently can't hack change...!

Isnt Andy Murray a scot, do we have any Englishmen in it, wasnt the last english guy a canadian really. What happened to Tim. Is henman hill still there or is it now murray mound...????

Unfortunately Im in Germany at the moment so cant watch - does No 4 male have a name....??????

You Tube links...???

On day two - that doesnt sound too good to me...! Take it we have no stars then.

Ohhh right - used to follow tennis big time in the days of connors, borge and chrissie and all that - but sort of lost interest. Its one of those tournaments when if you see english success in your lifetime you could probably say that you have witnessed a true historic occassion - a bit like a man standing on the moon.