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While this is obviously true, there are two ways of looking at what is the best deal for the creditors, IMO. Firstly, you take a "every creditor gets something" approach, which ultimately means that Chainrai takes the biggest haircut. Secondly, you could take a "biggest total pot for the creditors" approach, which could involve the sale of Fratton Park to a property developer on the assumption that without a football club to play there, any council agreement that it should only be used for football could be sidestepped quite easily, with Chainrai getting all of the money and the rest of the creditors getting nothing. The current PDT offer is, what, £2.75m to nullify the charge on FP and then around £500k to be shared among the creditors? Total value £3.25m. If someone (perhaps someone connected to Chainrai ) came in and offered £4m for the lot and decided to close the football club and develop the land, surely Birch would be legally bound to accept that offer?

While I broadly agree that the kickoff time changes are often a turnoff for people, last season saw 11 of our 46 league games televised, plus the Birmingham home game was shifted to the Sunday because of their Europa League involvement. That could be more TV games and kickoff changes than we'll get this season despite being in the Premier League with its various pitfalls.

16. With no option to expand the storage capacity I figured it was best to go for the larger one.

I got one with a 1-2 week expected delivery

Only if you use London Midland, which is a stopping service and takes forever. Group Save tickets aren't valid on Virgin trains.

Why? If you can't score a penalty into a 17.86m2 space that's nobody's fault apart from your own.

Saints team: Cropper, Young, Stephens, Turnbull, Targett, Ward-Prowse, Chambers, Reeves ©, Mayuka, Hoskins, Lee. Subs: Johns (GK), Curtis, Sinclair, Forte, Moore

The most frustrating thing about the whole situation is that we still end up selling the tickets. It's only Man City that hasn't come close to selling out so far this season and there were all sorts of mitigating circumstances there. This is why fans in this country will continue to have the **** taken out of them by clubs nationwide, even when they're being forced to jump through all sorts of hoops just to buy a ****ing match ticket, they'll still happily do so rather than actually stand up for themselves.

The total foul count was 12-7 against us, so that's clearly nonsense, but managers do tend to have a habit of spouting absolute nonsense when they have a microphone thrust in front of their face 15 minutes after the game's finished, so I can't say I'm surprised.

I hope you thanked him for the fine work he has done and continues to do

Michel Platini is dangerous as far as the future of football in Europe is concerned. It'll get even worse when he inevitably succeeds Blatter at FIFA. This is a man who voted for Qatar in 2022 and proposed a winter World Cup.

I've got that day off, so hangover depending, I might pop along to see what all the fuss is about

It didn't really make any difference who he brought on in the 2nd minute of 4 minutes added on with the score at 2-0 and their confidence shot to pieces, to be honest. Pardew had said when Nile Ranger had his most recent brush with the law that he wouldn't play for the club again but he was forced to stick him on the bench to make up the numbers, he was never likely to actually stick him on the pitch. Taylor got injured so he had to put *someone* on.

Disagree. QPR have got a very kind run of fixtures starting tonight (wonder why 'Arry chose now to start ), where they play Sunderland, Villa, Wigan, Fulham and Newcastle before Christmas, where they should pick up some points (especially in the home games against Villa and Fulham). Sunderland, on the other hand, play QPR, Norwich, Chelsea, Reading, Man United and us in the same period. Unlikely to get too many points there - possibly tonight and Reading at home and that's about it for "likely" wins.

Hartlepool did the smurf thing infinitely better than that, and in bigger numbers.

Get a better phone tbf

You could have just linked to here, tbf

Draws would be preferable, simply because that means all 4 teams drop points. It's still early days yet, really, but I guess everyone's view will depend on whether they think it's better (at this stage) to have two teams cut adrift completely - in which case two home wins wouldn't be disastrous for us - or for everyone to be quite close together but for us to be a couple of points above the dotted line. Obviously come the end of the season, we'd take the latter, but if teams like Reading and QPR can be completely demoralised by Christmas it means there's then only one relegation place to play for.

I think there are some pillars towards the back of the stand.

I would expect any player who didn't have a promotion pay rise written into their contract would have sacked their agent pretty swiftly. That sort of thing must be pretty standard, it's a fairly easy incentive to offer a player - earn the club success on the pitch and be rewarded on your payslip.

Do left backs and centre backs not count as defenders these days?

Thing is, there's no real context given to those statistics. You would expect that on the occasions when, say, Man United are losing going into added time, their opponents are making substitutions and doing anything else they can get away with to waste time. In those situations, naturally there's going to be more time added on. Also, the number of times when they're losing in the last minute will be far fewer than the number of times they're not losing at that point, so it's a much smaller sample size.

They have to provide a service, certainly, but I wouldn't expect them to go out of their way to rearrange work that would have been scheduled months ago (the game was only officially moved to the Sunday about 6-8 weeks ago) for the sake of what probably wasn't any more than a few hundred people who would travel from your part of the world. Also, if you think your weekend fare isn't "reduced", try travelling the same journey at 7am during the week