stevegrant

The idea of it is to act as a deterrant against getting into financial difficulty in the first place. There isn't an awful lot else the authorities can do to regulate the financial stability of clubs - a wage cap would technically be illegal and clubs would just get around it with "image rights" payments etc (see Sol Campbell), and they can't be seen to bail clubs out as that wouldn't be fair on those who do run their clubs sensibly.

Notts County, Chester City, Cardiff City and Portsmouth will all be in administration by the end of the season, IMO.

To be honest, while I've got sympathy for the fans, other clubs raped and pillaged us when we were in the same situation, so now the boot's on the other foot I'd be disappointed if we weren't looking to take advantage.

I suspect that the vultures who are circling and attempting to buy their better players are offering relative pittances at the moment, hoping that Pompey get desperate enough to accept them. When the end of the transfer window gets closer, those offers will increase a bit, but the desperation to sell will also increase, so there will be more deals agreed.

Could be a case of "give them enough rope..."

He certainly had some sort of involvement at Perugia (I think) in Italy. They've never been shy of controversy or headlines, having sacked a South Korean player for scoring the goal that knocked Italy out of the 2002 World Cup and then attempting to sign a female player.

Absolutely. Bournemouth have 13 fit players for their next two games, and yet the FA are still refusing to allow them to sign anyone on loan, even if the parent club pays all the wages!

I can't believe the Premier League would relax the embargo until the players have been paid on time. If there's another delay then all that does is confirm that they cannot afford the players they've currently got, let alone buy any new ones.

The potential spanner in the works with Pompey which is significantly different to the situation with us a year ago is the winding-up order. I think if that gets carried then the court could decide to just shut them down straight away, rather than put them in administration, in which case there wouldn't be any opportunity for someone to buy the club on the cheap.

Well they've had the proceeds of illegal arms dealing already, so surely the leader of a terrorist-sponsoring nation should get a go as well...

The former

Today's amusing news: apparently their youth team bus has been repossessed

Fixed, tbf.

I can strongly recommend renaming some of your filenames - replace all spaces, either with underscores or dashes. I would also suggest changing the colour scheme. The amount of bright blue overwhelms the page. Use more neutral colours like white and shades of grey for the background, I reckon.

The suggestion is that he'll walk if the wages are delayed again at the end of this week.

It would be fair to say I'm absolutely amazed we've managed to get the ban reduced - I was fully expecting to see it extended to 4 games.

*settles in and waits*

For supply and fit, probably about £150-200 or so, I guess.

Possibly, or failing that just contact your local tax office.

It depends how much you've earned since the beginning of the tax year (April 5th, I think, or thereabouts). If it's less than your personal allowance - generally £6,475, but can vary slightly depending on whether you've over or underpaid in previous years - and you don't work again this tax year, you'll be able to claim all of the tax back at the end of the tax year.

I don't think it actually said that, per se. It said something along the lines that they would be entitled to serve 14-day notice on the club, but didn't actually say that the players would actually do it. They quoted a player saying "I'm fed up of lying for this club, from now on I will tell the truth", which could make the next week or so interesting. I'd expect all journalists writing about Pompey this week will be making calls to Herman Hreidarsson to get this "truth"...

I think the main reason is so it doesn't alert other clubs to how much is being spent/recouped. Every competitive advantage that a club can get - i.e. not letting other clubs know how much money they've got and/or how much they've spent - will be taken these days. Not ideal, but unless the FA/Football League impose rules forcing clubs to disclose transfer payments, I can't see it changing.

The article fails to deal with the fact that he's contractually owed the money, and unless he sticks his hand up and lets it be known, he'll have no chance of getting any of it.

Sorry guys, while clearly people are capable of downloading a PDF and reading it, I can't let you post that phone number on here - mainly because I can't be arsed to deal with the inevitable hassle it'll cause!

Celtic and Newcastle respectively, apparently!