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Bad news for Salisbury, as a Salisbury boy myself, but maybe the league could learn from this. How about, ALL debts have to be paid to an agreed schedule, to get your golden share back. All to be adminstered by the League ( for an admin fee) and each season you fall behind with you payments you get a penalty or a relegation. That would focus the minds of directors a bit more. I can't help thinking that the Skates should have a budget set by the league each year, and that the vast percentage of any unexpected income, for a cup run or player sale should go to the creditors, on top of the CVA.

Daily Express say that there is ahitch with Grants move to the Hammers, as the Skates are insisting that he takes Ben Haim wit him ( £40,000 grand a week wages). Also says that Grant isa confident that he can take James with him, though strangely for the Express there is no mention of Lady Di.

The fraud squad are looking at Portmouth and other clubs. I won't say any more in case I comprise the person who this information came from. Not a rumour, a fact.

My worry with RLGM is that Pullis has fallen out with Kitson and Beattie, so Stoke will need a new target man. Also, some of the promoted teams might take a punt on him for the Prem, after ther problems that he caused the Skates. Other than that, Burnley are probably the only Chamionship club that could afford him.

Fairytale final , more like Robin Hood. although the Skates steal from everyone, not just the taxman. My Aunt is over, and is supporting the Skates, cause she likes David James, it is very hard not to tell her to F off.

On South Today this morning, only 150 ubber fans queing for the 1000 tickets available today. Also, I must say that I like the way that the BBC South studio has been decorated now, with a nice red and white stripped glass background. Must make the blood boil in portsdown.

Agreeing to the CVA proposal is the alternative to liquidation,which would result in the loss of the Parachute payments, without which the creditors would only get a cut of the sale of all remaining assets at FP. Approving the CVA is another thing altogether. Also, as the additional charge by HRMC has been made after they went into admin, is it outside the CVA, like Sol Cambell and so has to be payed up once they come out of admin ?

I think that Lee from Palace could be a good shout. Great target man who always seems to be in and out of the team whatever club he is at. Might be interested in dropping down a league, as part of the Palace firesale.

One of the conditions that UEFA set is being upto date with your taxes by 31st December. At that time, PFC whre under a winfing up order from HRMC for 17 Miliion. If it was a racehorse, AA's appeal would fall at the first hurdle.

The Skates do not need a CVA to continue in the league, just to avoid a points deduction. Despite what AA say's, it is possible for them to use Parachute payments to pay the football debts if they come out of admin without the CVA, and to continue to feild a side, on minus points and probably with a Bournemouth style transfer embargo. I don't buy AA's CVA or bust idea.

Davenport - Bullied off the ball costing us the Villa and Everton home games, which would have kept us up. Idiakez,Wright-Phillips, Pele - Bought by Burley instead of keeping better players Oakley, Blackstock and Higg. Waste of transfer cash and wages. Speedie - First real mercenary to come to Saints. Only interested in the money Mark Hughes - Complete cack, more interested in fouling his marker than trapping the ball. Also tried to split the dressing room against Tiss. I still play Football Manager 2000 now and again, just so I can sell him.

Blimey, their away support is almost outnumbered by their sub's bench.

morgan !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

AA has already talked of paying off the creditors over a number of years, which looks to me like the Parachute payments are being redirected. So his attempt at a CVA would leave the club to survive on gate receipts alone, while the tax payer loses 70% or upwards of the monies owed to it ( us all) . I think the taxmans best hope is the 'interested parties' vote. Gaydmark, Fahim. Mirage and Chanrai are alll former owners, and so must be interested parties as should any football debts owed to players. Does that leave enough of a percentage of creditors to outvote HRMC ?

The News is posting that Dindane can now play on Sunday as they had 'miscounted' the number of games he could play, and it is in fact 22 instead of 20 before they have to pay Lens the £4 million. Perhaps the inbreeding gives them some problems with the decimal system (The Romans based it on the number of fingers and thumbs of a non portsea resident) or could it be that the extra 2 games are Mr Storries usual 10% cut ?

Viking, as a last resort try resyoring the PC to the last date that Saints Player worked for you. Fixed my mum's broadband that way last week.

If you decide to go west. the coast from Bordeuax to Spain has great beaches, good surfing too. Bordeaux is a great city, and if you want to go further down , San Sebastian just south of the Spanish border has two sheltered beaches and 155 tapas bars, and is much cheeper to eat and drink than in France (We stayed at Pension Belles Artes which comes top of the list on trip advisor) .

If the PL bring in this extra 2 years half payment for the relegated teams, I can see how it could help sell the skates. Assuming, as seems likely that the Skates are allowed to factor/mortgage next years parachute payements (16m) and maybe even the proposed £5m that each championship club will get. That would still leave them with 1 and two half years parachute payments to come ( 16 +8 + , which could be used by a new owner to try to get back to the PL, or it could be used to repay the monies used to by the Skates from the administrator and just kepp them ticking over on gate receipts.

I'm not sure that Hammond and Scheiderlin are a pair, particularly in this league. Both seem to be more effective when they can roam freely, which is difficult without a holding midfeilder behind them. Maybe we need someone in the mould of Kavanagh at Carlisle, lots of experience, good tackler and better all round than Wotton. Other than that we need to work out how to combat teams who put 10 men behind the ball all game. Not always easy. Remember Chelsea away at Barcelona last year, dull as ditchwater to watch, but Barca couldn't find space even with all their stars.

A couple of good articles on newsnow today. The first is a comparison with how Burnley and Blackburn are now run. http://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/sport/5050688.Pompey_enjoyed_their_ride/?ref=rss The second is a biography of Peter Storrie and his sound bytes. http://bleacherreport.com/articles/359695-the-storrie-of-the-blues Both well written pieces, logical and easy to understand, and yet there are still Skates bleating on about how unfair it all is. Yesterday, Fifa were conspiring against them with this new 'must publish accounts' rule to get in the Europa League, and today Marc Wilson is complaining that Brum could make changes last night as they had a bigger squad because of the embargo.

That's the one, sorry should have known that Paddy Ashdown wouldnt fiddle his taxes.

On the News forum, they keep asking for more help from their MP, Han****. I think that they sould skip Parliment and go straight to the House of Lords. Lord Ashdown would be the perfect spokesman for them against the 'persecution' by HRMC.

On the subject of player valuations, does anyone know who is out of contract at the end of the season. David James is an obvious one, and I have read somewhere that Ashdown is out of contract and want's out, but who else is likely to walk in the summer, and also, what players will be 'Raisaking' the rest of their contracts next year?

I read somewhere that the PL have allotted £10M of the parachute payments for football creditors, and then are prepared to allow the skates to mortgage the other £22Million to pay creditors. Thus they will be the first team since the PL started to get relegated without any parachute payments, as they will have spunked them against the debt wall. It is also worth considering that Lens,Nantes and Udinese are not considered football creditors by the FA, and so do not have to be paid in full. I doubt that they would be very happy about that, and I would expect thenm to vote with HRMC if it comes to a CVA. Finally, irespective of the law and regulations, how can it be morally right for anyone to put a company in admin, and buy it back ... wrong, wrong, wrong .