Dark Munster

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/12/underwater-hotel-dubai_n_1511501.html Oh no, the JoCa has been beaten to it, and in DP's back yard! Oh well, perhaps now he can concentrate on coming back with a renewed bid to save the Cheats.

Apparently it's easier to steal from charities if you're chairman of Cheats FC than if you're Head of Integrity at the FA. Anyway, we shouldn't be surprised by this. After all, the cesspit of a club was running for over 6 months on money stolen from Lithuanian pension accounts, has stolen from charities before, has lied to the court about being solvent, has cheated with having players they couldn't afford, has racked up hundreds of millions in debt without any intention of paying it back, etc. etc. DFCSBs

You mean finish 17th? I think I know someone who would be content with that.

Al Mirage "in charge" the first time, and a couple of hand-picked Russian idiots the second time. Not forgetting the wonderful follow-up work done by the Android. Our Chinny's a slippery eel, isn't he? If he ever gets bored with the loan shark business, I think he has the skills to become a world class puppeteer.

Dear Confused: Maybe Chinny won't be concerned about having no players, and going down and down again. Don't worry though, you'll finally be rid of him after he's got his hands on the remaining parachute payments. Then your misery will be over. As in pull-the-plug over.

Yes indeed! And bring back Graham Hiley to run it (is he still alive?)!

So 4th is completely impossible, but 5th is quite possible?

Very few have billionaire owners.

I think the delay is simply because Chinny doesn't want to pay any running costs (i.e. TBH and co's salary) for as long as possible. He's hoping Trevor can somehow convince most of them to leave before liquidation day. The halcyon days of quality over quantity mad gambles to get back to PL are over I'm afraid. The Cheats are going to plummet down the leagues faster than a pair of knickers in Portsea, and at the end of it Chinny will get his hands on the last parachute payment. The cesspit of a club reminds me of one of those zombies from the Walking Dead, locked up in shed and being kept alive with the odd chicken thrown in occasionally. And at the end its head will get blown off.

In fairness, I believe him. They probably thought it wiser to laugh at him behind his back.

I take it that this must be a 5-a-side tournament. For kids.

Bugger, if they win they will be a point ahead of us. Not fair that they are allowed to play more games than us.

Very likely, but not immediately*. Chinny will find a way to keep the rotten, festering, foul, disgusting corpse on life support long enough to grab as much of the remaining parachute payments as possible. *Unless he can convince the PL/FL to hand them over early in exchange for, say, a 500 point penalty and demotion 7 divisions.

From what NC said some time back, I thought Markus took over Saints despite Fry and Begbies, not because of them.

http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/sport/pompey/pompey-past/birch-vows-appy-s-staying-at-pompey-1-3791838 And despite the vast majority of the Blues’ playing squad being expected to be sold this summer to ease the financial crisis, Birch promised cashing in on a manager who still has three years left on his contract is one deal he does not intend to make. Birch said: ‘We want Michael here, absolutely. Hopefully, Michael is here for the long term. ‘I met with him yesterday morning and there was nothing mentioned about West Brom. As far as I’m concerned, Michael will be staying as Portsmouth manager. ‘There has been no approach and we wouldn’t welcome one. He is the future of the club. The future of Portsmouth is in the hands of Michael.’ Nice one Trevor! Just like when we conned Scotland into taking the drunken Scot, you are trying to extract as much compensation as possible from a turd. But unlike the Scottish FA, I doubt We're Bottom Again are that stupid to think you are concerned about the "long term future of the club", and to pay more than a pittance in compensation. How long before Chinny can get his hands on the last remaining parachute payment? Too long for the phew, I'm afraid. Because that's how long they are going to suffer the humiliation of their cesspit of a club being kept on life support, as it plummets down the divisions. Anything worth of value is going to be flogged off, leaving the likes of the legendary Tal Ben Haim and some kids to hold the fort. In a year or two they'll be praying for liquidation.

Disagree. They've spent huge, more than they can possibly afford, in a desperate gamble to go up. They don't deserve to go up.

And there I was thinking the relegation spots in L1 had been done and dusted. But now the teams at the bottom of that league should now be thanking the Cheats for bringing their season back to life!

I certainly hope Norwich don't ever get relegated. Because whenever they do, we tend to go down with them.

Our Tommy, maybe?

Yes but it saved them losing 6 valuable points. So instead of finishing 3rd on 86 points they would only have finished 3rd on 80 points. £700000 well spent, I would say.

That is quite beautiful. I can almost forgive you for that 17th nonsense.

And the final score is ..... 48 points above the Cheats And another fun figure ... 2 divisions above them (if they don't get liquidated first). Bye bye you DFCSBs WTFILN!!!!

Can I relax now?