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Nope. Skate Retard.

I read it as fan on in the boardroom. We do that here too.

In their defence, they are a very good and well-respected international firm. We've used them.

Or maybe not watching enough. From the UK Border Agency's own website: You must obtain a visa before you can come to the UK to work or do business. & Working in the UK This section describes the immigration categories for non-European migrants who want to work in the UK. Each category has different requirements, so you should read the requirements for your chosen category before you apply for a visa.

Me neither, but the little bit I do know from experience is that you can't normally apply for a Visa (other than an extension to an existing one) while in the Country, so it may well be that he has gone back to Japan to have his interview at the Embassy there.

Just cracked one open to warm up for the match thread

Try here. Delivered to your door.

No, it's the second game in a row

We can do this

Still time for another 3 to make it safe

Time for a smoke

Scrap the buses I say. Send them off down the Solent in a Task Force. Nigel Adkin's Red Funnel Army.

From APPENDIX 2 of the linked CVA Completion Report from UHY: NOTICE OF COMPLETION I hereby confirm that Portsmouth City Football Club Limited (In Administration) has complied with the terms of the proposal agreed by the requisite majority of creditors on 17 June 2010. I further confirm that I am now ceasing to act as Joint Supervisor of this Voluntary Arrangement. Signed: Andrew Andronikou Date: 24/02/11 Seems pretty clear to me.

I know April is a long way off, but there is a possibility that if Andronikou, as Court appointed representative of the owners of CSI, is not able to make sure that Newco (which he now "owns") makes the required payment in April, he could find himself shafted by his own convoluted arrangements. I expect he will have "passed the parcel" by then, but who knows? As they say, nobody likes a smartar5e.

I see things differently. I think the only good result HMRC actually got last time round was successfully blocking AA's appointment as liquidator of "Oldco", which is now in liquidation. The liquidators of Oldco are Baker Tilley. The CVA is an Oldco problem, it's got nothing to do with "Newco", and AA is now completely out of the picture so far as the CVA is concerned. So paying the creditors under the CVA is Baker Tilley's responsibility, not the club's or AA's. In order to make those payments Baker Tilley have to collect money from Newco over the next 3 years, in the amounts and dates helpfully highlighted in an earlier post by Gruffalo, taken from UHY's Completion Report (the same one where AA's further involvement in the CVA was terminated). Those scheduled payments to Baker Tilley are (or should be) irrevocably included in the original Deed of Sale of the club from Oldco to Newco, and are the responsibility of the owners of Newco (Chainrai when he bought Newco from the Administrator, and then CSI when they bought Newco from Chainrai). If they are not then I would say the terms of the CVA have already been breached. So the real question is what will Baker Tilley do if they don't receive the first scheduled payment from Newco (50% of 15% of 20% of £87m if my sums are correct) in April next year? As I see it only Baker Tilley can change the dates or amounts of payments, and probably only with the consent of the majority of the creditors. Who was it that chose Baker Tilley as liquidators?

The Rules, and his inherent sense of decency and fair play.

I prefer: "What Saints don't want to do now, Adam, is lose their concentration and let them get back into this game."

Tiresome little man, Ho. In Phil's defence, not that he needs it, you're dead right. Antonov doesn't own SAAB, and never did. His long-term buddy & partner Victor Muller does. Muller bought SAAB using a $116m personal loan which he got from Antonov the day before he bought SAAB, money which Antonov pilfered from Bank Snoras.

SE Europe? Only Greece is more SE than you. We've got it on Supersport here, first live game since Leeds.

I saw the handshake "snub" between Cameron & Sarkozy on the news. Was it or wasn't it? But I was absolutely enraged in the subsequent interview where Adam Boulton called Cameron "Dave no-mates". Call me old-fashioned if you like, but our Prime Minister is our elected PRIME MINISTER, and Boulton is a paid "journalist". I might live 6,000 miles away, but I really hope that UK PLC hasn't sold it's soul to MURDOCH PLC

For goodness sake. What on earth makes you think that the top table is anywhere in Europe? Edit: Sorry I meant to link that to SaintAndy666's earlier post

If we'd sung that at the Brighton game we'd be up before the beak.

No parachute payments left to guarantee the football credtiors payments?

Where does all this stuff about being self-sufficient come from? I've seen nothing in the FL rules that says that. What the rules do say is that they are liable for a penalty if their parent company goes into administration, and it has. So they are liable, Lampitt himself admitted as much in his statement on their website. HOWEVER, the FL have discretion over whether to apply a penalty, and if so how much, after reviewing the particular circumstances of the case (nothing about self-sufficiency there). I guess the pertinent question is have the Skates gained a competitive advantage through the insolvency of their owners? Tough one that. Their owners gave them £10.8m that they didn't have to spend on "legacy issues", buy new players and pay the wages of those players that otherwise they wouldn't have been able to afford.

I have no doubt that we'll sign a striker in January. Not a back up for Lambert, but a long term replacement for Connolly. Fit & on form, they're our best strikeforce. We've missed DC. We've got back up, and until we're top 6 in the PL, we can't afford a squad where the back up is as good as the first team.