stevegrant

That was embarrassing

Does it suggest giving Peter Storrie the freedom of the city?

Are you Eddie Mitchell?

For a newly-promoted side, I suspect £1m a year is actually quite a good deal for us. Pretty sure our deals with Sanderson and Friends Provident years ago weren't anywhere near seven figures.

The aap3 deal was for 3 years and was agreed at various levels depending on the division we're in. If we'd not been promoted last season, it would have been around £200k in League One, it was around £500k in the Championship this season and will be around £1m in the Premier League next season.

Oh, I see Coventry fans have been waxing lyrical on their forums about our fantastic support on Saturday. Better stick it on the OS for everyone to **** over...

Definitely Scott Hiley.

I believe there was a representative of "Portsmouth City Football Club", which, given that it is in liquidation and in the hands of Baker Tilly, I assumed to be them.

Tried all of the addresses I've lived at in the last decade, still nothing

"Your details have not been recognised" Brilliant

Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.

Apparently the source of the "oh noes, the tunnel's collapsed" rumour was the RMT

Newsflash

I assume we're finished on this now?

I remember back in the day when I was too young to drive so I'd go to away games on the travel club, he'd always pitch up at the Winnall roundabout carrying his postbag and still wearing his Royal Mail jacket

MLG, ever heard the phrase "plausible deniability"? That's my impression of these dinners, sure they take place, but there's no recording of what happens, who says what, etc, so if something outlandish gets out in the general public that turns out to be nonsense, the club can simply say "that's never been the plan, nobody ever said such a thing". After all, who's going to take the word of a fan plucked at random to attend over the person who is actually in charge of making the decisions? I remember last year sometime, someone claimed Cortese had basically revealed how much one of our first-team players was earning. Either that person was making it up, or Cortese was incredibly unprofessional in revealing such information (or, perhaps, he "revealed" a fictional number), which given his banking background seems somewhat unlikely. I wouldn't take comments that come second or third-hand from someone who's been plied with beer and wine all evening at one of these dinners to be gospel, to be honest.

Is the fella with the long hair at the bottom the postie who used to always go on the travel club to away games?

If 3 wins from 13 despite having the division's leading goalscorer at his disposal is your definition of "did well" I'd hate to see your definition of "did terribly" As for Pulis, he won them promotion to the Premier League that season, why on earth would he have left them (with Coates' pocket money to throw around like confetti) for us? Sounds like another of Leon Crouch's fantastic brainwaves, rather akin to the "if I get the bank to put the club into administration, I'll be able to own it 100% myself" one which ended so well for him.

I don't think they will. Don't forget we have a rather nice £12m windfall from the sale of Chamberlain to Arsenal, an extra £4-5m in broadcasting rights, an increase in ticket revenue (30% rise in ST prices, plus an extra 3k on the attendances), etc. Any costs incurred relating to the Academy and infrastructure development don't count towards FFP, so even with the new signings and new contracts awarded to existing players, I can't see us making a loss this season.

Nailed-on that they were one of the three clubs who voted against it - when it was last mentioned they claimed they'd take it to a judicial review

To be fair, there's another year and a bit until sanctions will start to be imposed - plenty of time for most clubs to be adjusting their budgets. Pompey are probably ****ed regardless of this latest development.

Not quite. Teams who remain in the Football League at the end of the season (i.e. not promoted to the Premier League) will be subject to a transfer embargo - the article I've read is a bit ambiguous here, but there's a chance that embargo would last for a whole year, similar to the one the SPL/SFA have handed Rangers this week (only allowed to sign players under the age of 18 ). It is only those who are promoted to the Premier League who would be subject to the "Fair Play Tax" at a sliding scale depending on the amount of the loss above the "acceptable deviation". Here's an example: Say an entirely fictional club, East Cheese City, were promoted to the Premier League in the 2015/16 season (when the target "acceptable deviation" will be a £2m loss), having made an annual loss of £10m. That's £8m over the "acceptable deviation". On the sliding scale (1% for £100k losses, 100% for £10m+), that would equate to an 80% "tax" by the Football League, so that club would have to contribute £6.4m out of its revenue from the next season (i.e. its Premier League money) into the Fair Play fund, which would then get distributed evenly among the clubs remaining in the Football League who were fully compliant with the regulations.

On the face of it, that argument looks weak, but dig a bit deeper and you see an underlying problem... the likes of Habib Beye on a 5-year contract at £50k a week, discarded by O'Neill himself after a couple of months, Steve Sidwell was on a similar amount and they had to give him a big pay-off to take a pay cut and move to Fulham. Plenty of other examples as well.

To be honest, for Michael Appleton at Pompey, read Nigel Pearson at Saints. Took us from comfortably mid-table to staying up with 20 minutes to go, yet appears to be hero-worshipped by many