stevegrant

More likely to get a ****ing payrise, the way those idiots have been running that club

Robben and/or Sneijder at 33/1 apiece both look like very long odds to me.

A round of applause

Not sure anyone's been banned before for Twitter comments, so would imagine anything to do with that would involve a fine of some description.

There was a shot from the dugout that showed Tevez taking some sort of a swing at him, so I'd expect him to have to face a violent conduct charge as well. If the FA take each incident in isolation, Barton should be looking at at least 10 games on the sidelines. 4 for the red card (3 + 1 as it's his second of the season), another 3 for booting Aguero and another 3 for headbutting/attempting to headbutt Kompany. If the disciplinary panel were feeling particularly in the mood to throw several books at him, they might even add another game or two for failing to leave the pitch promptly and/or attempting to get involved in a spat with Balotelli as he was ushered away.

Lineker's infidelity issues have been in the papers before, it's no big secret that Barton's threatening to "unveil"

One hour would equate to 0.057p, I'll round it to the nearest penny for you. I charge an admin fee of £10 to process the refund, though

It was basically an animated GIF image simulating a command prompt window. Completely unthreatening, but very annoying.

If only. I assume now that all the Spanish-speaking players we had at the club around 2007/8 have gone, he's stopped claiming to be a football agent and has gone back to cleaning toilets at La Manga.

Payment for services rendered

No user data was accessed, someone used a known problem with the forum software to modify the home page. I'm upgrading the software this afternoon so that loophole will be completely closed.

No individual users were hacked, there's a known problem in the version of the forum software we're currently using which allowed someone with the requisite knowledge to modify files on the server. No user data was accessed, and I am upgrading the software this afternoon.

Web development does seem to be a relatively minor string to aap3's bow, to be fair. Looking at the case studies on their website, they all seem to be fairly basic content management systems. With the club OS having to manage advertising campaigns, email newsletters (presumably with bounce/read tracking), multimedia content, etc, that's a very significant step up in both expertise and cost from what they seem to offer - or at least what they're demonstrating to potential clients on their website.

I assume there's more to the deal than meets the eye, I guess it depends on when that deal was actually agreed. It's possible that finances across the league appeared particularly tough and they wanted security of revenue from advertising and content (via the Player software). Cheers, couldn't be bothered to go through them all myself

While Perform are the company who actually do the work and own the contract, it's all run through a joint venture with the Football League called - imaginatively - Football League Interactive. I'm led to believe that the contract signed between Perform and the Football League a few years ago was a 99-year one, so would be pretty expensive to get out of. I'm not sure it's as simple as "we're out of the Football League now so it's not a problem" - there are quite a few current PL sides who also have the same generic FL template for their sites.

A whole week??

And tickets were first available to non-season ticket holders at least two months in advance.

It'll probably be fine for most games, to be honest. The biggest games will be twinned with **** ones, so if you want a Man United ticket you'll probably have to buy one for the likes of Bolton, Norwich, Stoke, etc at the same time, and we saw how long it took twinned tickets for the Pompey and Coventry games to sell out.

We had a 30% increase when moving up from League One to the Championship, so I suspect we'll see a similar rise when taking the next step up. In terms of matchday prices, they're surely going to have to go back to a multi-tiered system - they can probably get away with charging £40-45 for the likes of Man United, Man City, Arsenal, Chelsea, etc, but no chance of selling any tickets against Wigan, Stoke and Norwich.

£6,000 was the figure that sent us into admin - that was a cheque Barclays refused to honour, while we had an outstanding overdraft in the region of £4.1m, with a target to reduce it to £4m (from £6.5m at the start of the season) by May. Mark Fry was the administrator, Richard Fry later turned up at Begbies, which was apparently unconnected. That one's a strange one because the only person connected to the football club who had obvious links with Richard Fry was Leon Crouch (Fry was Crouch's account manager for his various businesses and was persuaded to take on the SFC/SLH account during his tenure), but it would have been Rupert Lowe and Andrew Cowan who selected and appointed the administrator.

He asked for a sum of money (believed to be around £500k) in order to a) keep the club running for another period of time, and b) give them a period of exclusivity to conduct whatever due diligence they wanted and to get a deal done. Leon Crouch, on behalf of Pinnacle, was the only person willing to do so at the time. We've no idea whether Liebherr would have concluded a deal sooner had that money not changed hands, we don't even know if the club would have survived long enough without it.

To be fair to Appleton, I'm sure his spell at Pompey will stand him in good stead for the future - if you can still maintain a semblance of dignity with utter carnage going on around you then that's a good start, but he's nowhere near the level of manager a relatively well-established Premier League club should be looking at yet.

No, that rule was removed at the end of last season. Clubs rightly argued that if the Premier League are insisting that they register a squad of 25 players deemed to be eligible for the first-team, they should be allowed to pick any combination of players from that squad. The ridiculous scenario isn't that they won't receive a sanction for picking such a weak team relative to their perceived first-choice, it's that Wolves and Blackpool were fined for doing so in the first place.

I don't think he's done that good a job. The squad he had at his disposal for most of the season should have been able to get itself more than 10 points clear of the bottom three before the problems started. Every manager down there seems to get hero-worshipped even when they're terrible, they'd give full backing to a chimp that could pour a cup of tea if it was given the job.