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I find it odd that nobody else has corroborated her story that she was punched in the face while holding a child. Let's face it, something as ridiculous as that would have had MANY more comments about it, and there were hundreds - if not thousands - of people around that bridge after the game.

One rather major flaw with that claim (other than the fact it's nonsense, of course ) is that I manually activate all new users, and have done for years, so I would have noticed any username that was similarly close to a user I recognised I have found the flaw and fixed it, basically the Tapatalk plugin for mobile browsing didn't have the 3-post restriction on it - this has now been fixed. I look forward to sotonjoe renewing his membership tomorrow

Don't forget that shirt is part of the yellow third kit, which of course isn't available to buy from the club anymore

One of the reasons they're £100m in debt is because they decided that committing around £15m to Kevin Nolan over a five-year period was a good idea. £5m transfer fee plus £50k a week wages, FFS I'd imagine he's not even their highest earner, so while Sullivan can plead poverty all he likes, the reason they're still as much (if not more) in debt as they were when they took over is because they haven't exercised any real effort in controlling their ridiculous wage bill.

I don't think we named the full 25 players over the age of 21, so Forren simply slots into one of the free places. I assume MLG will be along shortly to confirm either way.

My confidence has actually increased during this window, we've not lost anybody we weren't happy to lose, we've strengthened in the key area pretty much all of us identified, our resilience and performances have improved, and none of our direct rivals (I don't think Newcastle count) have strengthened significantly enough IMO.

Yeah, someone is deleting them pretty quickly after they're posted. One of them said "Just overheard the Marketing Director (he's staying, by the way) ask 'can we shut down Twitter?'"

Of the 17 named last night, only 3 have scored a league goal for Pompey this season, Gyepes (4), Harris (2), Wallace (1).

Coming up, turkeys talk to us about their love of Christmas.

Sorry, my bad, I forgot. No prize other than the adulation of everyone on here

Ouch

Although, to be fair, it's worth noting that the vast majority of professional football clubs are REALLY **** when it comes to paying suppliers on time.

Apparently not.

They've had the first half of this season's £8m, the second half is due next month.

Not sure I'd put Chelsea in that group of historically big support, but agree otherwise.

We more or less broke even every year we were in the Premier League under Lowe. Some years we made a small profit, some years we made a small loss. If we added more expenditure on wages, we'd have been making a loss every year, with no guarantee of that funding hole being plugged - we were entirely self-sustainable back then. Hindsight is a wonderful thing and those three players you mention didn't work out, but they would have been thoroughly scouted and - as amazing as this notion sounds these days - approved by the manager at the time. I guess a case could be made for buying fewer players but increasing the quality (and, ergo, the salary) of those players, but there's no guarantee that they'll work out either. Or of course we could have just not spent any money on the academy, not bothered paying our creditors, etc, just to be able to accommodate a larger wage bill...

Spot on, IMO

We're not live for the Man United game in this country. Possibly on ESPN in the US or something like that, so it'll be on a stream in the usual places.

I thought Colin said he was going to answer every question. I don't think he's actually answered any of them yet.

So essentially, Portsmouth FC (2013) is already racking up hundreds of thousands of pounds worth of debt before they've even bought the club? Bravo, gentlemen

It's on general sale now so you should be able to get one via the SFC ticket office.

Yeah, it's "balanced", in that it balances against the vast majority of articles written, but it takes stuff written on a blog that's full of factual inaccuracies as its basis, which doesn't help its cause too much.