Jimmy_D

Not yet they haven't. They waited until minutes before the deadline before appealing in the Leeds Utd case.

This alone will make it very very difficult for them to make it through the season, and that's assuming the CVA actually gets accepted in its current form...

Really like that

What you talking about? That's already 10 points up on last year!

Ah if only football manager had a receptionist voiceover like Theme Hospital does... Here we have yet another example of the administrator acting like a manager... It's happened so many times now no-one even bats an eyelid any more. I can't remember our administrator being the slightest bit interested in the football side of things, besides trying to get some money from the sale of players to keep the club going.

No fans would have got behind their team like Pompey fans? Didn't we take the same number of fans to Wembley in one minor final as they took over two trips in the FA Cup final and semi final?

Don't think they'd be good at home matches... But to drown out the home crowd at an away match...

So do they still have a transfer embargo until then?

Just a small point, but they just said on SSN that they're not actually out of Admin yet.

Don't forget that it's not extra debt as such, but fines of 100 percent levied for non payment of tax, with the harshness caused by non intention to pay and actively avoiding payment.

Do you really believe that?

Even if they do manage to bundle this CVA through, they still have to afford it. They'll struggle if they spend money gambling on promotion.

Got mine just now, it's a really nice kit, looks even better in the flesh and is really good quality.... in other words the complete opposite of what we would have expected a couple of seasons ago On a side note, the megastore is open today, even though it's sunday, presumably because of the kit launch, and there are no queues whatsoever.

http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/sport/football/845109/PORTSMOUTH-FACING-A-NEW-D-DAY.html The endgame may be approaching.

Interesting. Did it have the 125 year badge on it?

I thought if they couldn't agree a CVA the only course of action left would be to liquidate the company? Leeds couldn't agree a CVA, but in that case the football club was an asset and got passed to another company (also owned by Bates) while the old company was liqudated. In our case a CVA wasn't required because all the debts were paid off (and the old parent company still exists, although it isn't required any more) In Pompey's case, the football club IS the company... I'm not sure they have the option of just not using a CVA...

I have the power that technology seems to work better because it's me using it. ("but that's exactly what I did....") Also the power to tempt fate and have it not backfire as often as it should.

http://www.dna.fr/articles/201004/13/sain-parmi-les-saints,football,000006155.php You can read the full article at http://www.facebook.com/pages/Southampton/Morgan-Schneiderlin/118552260489#!/notes/morgan-schneiderlin/sain-parmi-les-saints-/101193699923837 That's what it's like to TRULY be recognised as good fans, when even the French are acknowledging the English as being good at something. Your fans MIGHT be universally recognised as better than ours, but only on Portsea Island.

all brinkmanship has done so far is move the brink... does look positive though.

To be fair, the World Cup Squad is of direct interest to every fan in England. Palace having troubles is of direct interest to Palace fans and maybe their direct rivals, and only passing interest to everyone else. SSN are just playing the numbers, they have advertising to sell, hence the relative amount of coverage.

catching up with that thread now... up to page 41 now.

It's all over then... bloody hell.

They don't want to see Palace go under... talks are ongoing... So they haven't agreed yet with 3 minutes left... just noise from the bank to try and limit the damage... Looks like bad news to me rather than good sounds.

This brings back bad memories of last summer...

Ah I see. Thanks Dav.