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Absolutely agree there... always liked Best, but if TSW doesn't rate you...

Stuart Pearce. Oh no. Expect the next generation of midfield nudgers and nurdlers like Henderson and Muamba to clog up our midfield for the next ten years as we fall further behind world football if that happens. His 'passion' will at most, see us to a quarter finals. We're at a fork in the road with our national team... either we plod along the same path, or we take a new route and start to integrate the Wilshere's, McEcherean's and Lallana's of this world. If we do, we'll stand a much better chance of competing.

Well personally, for me, the line is drawn when you've determined what exactly is football-related income or not. Profiteering from a shopping centre housing stores completely unrelated to the club, for me, is. In a strange way though, I do like the idea. However, the overriding feeling is that football will officially cease being predominantly a sport if this is allowed to happen. Of course, it is touted that football is already a business. It's not quite there yet, but if this is given the green flag, then... hmmm!

Erm, the difference from income on matchdays on the concourses, in the shops etc is that it's related to the football club. A yachting company renting offices from the football club has nothing to do directly with the club other than being tenants - and there's your difference. That's how I'd determine it.

http://www.portsmouthfc.co.uk/LatestNews/news/Boss-Moved-by-Blues-Show-2648.aspx Moving? With so many empty seats? :-/ It's a shame a bigger club couldn't offer a friendly to Rostov, tbh.

Leeds tried that, it didn't work. We'll be ok... just because we're kicking people doesn't mean we're not a tough side.

Gandhi once said you can still be in a minority of one and still be right. FWIW, we would not fill a 50k stadium in the Premier League unless we had Blackburn-esque prices.

Hilarious stuff on PompeyOnline... with a thread almost split in half between people who can see beyond appointing a former "scummer" and the rest who are frothy-mouthed, rabid types willing to take a chance on anyone - as long as they were never formally associated with us. Lol.

So happy... Big games over the next month though! COYS

This is also true about Spain but for the Moneyfields game I was injured, sadly.

5-2. Played ok that game, IIRC...

Saints fans will be "welcome". Hmmm, not so sure about that....

Funnily enough, I concur with everything you've just said

12,102? Rofl rofl rofl rofl rofl rofl

Thank you (if you mean it, lol)... though I fear I might be grating on some, but it's just ****ing me off big-time. Whinge, *****, whine, nothing's ever good enough... it's almost as boring as reading my monotonous sarcasm, I'm sure!

We should write him off like we did Holmes, Hooiveld, Connolly and back in 0708, Lallana.

And another thing.. if anyone thinks Cortese is out to purposefully negatively affect or impact the.lives of people less fortunate them himself then that's just sad. How shallow to best him with a rumour that has no credibility whatsoever. That's the lowest of the low using a charity as an excuse to peddle an agenda then again, I'm boy surprised with the crap on here anymore

I'm not saying Cortese is perfect, I'm not saying he hasn't made mistakes but some you really, really don't know how lucky we are to have him. If you think there is anyone out there who is (a) remotely interested (b) as capable as Cortese © can guarantee continued success then I'd love to hear who those people are. His abrasive way is going to rub some people up the wrong way and rightly or wrongly, he bandied two ex-Saints into the same category as the freeloaders who probably have very tentative links with us. It's a mistake, it's happened and up until the silliness of the weekend, it appeared things had turned a corner and bridges were being built. What I cannot fathom is the fan-on-the-board, protest/whinge/always-know-best brigade who surface every time there is a bit of controversy (in their heads, mostly) with a chairman. Half the time, you don't hear a peep from this ****heads until they've been given, in their sad little world, a justifiable reason to squinny like little girls because they don't agree with something. Additionally, they can't be reasoned with as they are always right, irrespective of anyone else's viewpoint. If Lowe did something right, it's wrong. If Wilde did something right, it was wrong. If Crouch did something right, it was wrong and if Cortese does something right, it's wrong - the same applies if any of the previous or current incumbents do anything wrong. Actually, that's the worst case scenario - they really get their little frillies in a twist over that. If you want drama, watch a f()cking soap, or better still, go down either side of the city and hang around with those whingy f()cksticks. Just when we've finally, after years of turmoil, freeloading, debt and worry - turned it around, we find a small section of our fanbase crying into their milk and stomping on their digestives over programme covers, car park charges and the like. It's pathetic, truly f()cking pathetic. Typical know-it-all's who always have a solution for everything. The type of know-it-all who probably looked over the first Ted Bates statue and gave themselves a nice pat on the back for being such a "nice person". Then we've got the attention-seeking tubthumping fan-on-the-board types who love a good drama. Stringing out small-ish problems and hear'say into large, volatile threads because they heard someone who heard someone else who farted the message which the dog heard from someone else who was walking their dog in the park. Stoking and hypothesising over dark forces, agendas and laying the seeds of doubt among others in the fanbase - just to grab that little slice of attention and hold dominion over a shallow, pointless conversation on the internet. He's not f()cking pefect, far from it - but who is? He's done a great job so far and if he's isolated a few wet-willied, lily-livered cry babies than so be it. I'll question Cortese's ability when he does something truly horrendous and heinous. At the time of writing, he has not so shut the f()ck up whining and enjoy one of our best teams, managers and form in years before it all goes to sh1t and you've really got something to protest about.

Cortese is an evil man. In fact, if you look closely enough you can see small, almost translucent strings attached to his back. That's because his puppet-master is Rupert Lowe, and he's calling all the shots. Only a fans takeover and a giant picture of Lawrie McMenemy can save us now.

Lmao, so true. Oh how the supa's crave the drama

99% can see beyond the Stelling rant and still love MLT and appreciate Cortese's work, the other 1% are the supa-dupa fans who want to be "the fan on the board" and always make a drama out of everything. To them, a chairman is constantly a pantomine villain and only they, the supa-dupa fan with a pulse on finance, economy, economics, football, education, politics and democracy can save the club from certain implosion...

Surprise, same old people again. One day they'll be the fan on the board - they just have to get rid of that nasty Italian-Swiss banker.

This, but I'm not sure our wannabe FoB's want that... they'd prefer a bit of drama ala Hollyoaks....