Dark Munster

Exactly. I wouldn't be surprised if some of those bigwigs have received brown envelopes containing some of Cheats FC's ill-gotten gains, and maybe now some of the bigwigs from the FL too (look at how lenient they have been already regarding the embargo). Don't be surprised to see them avoid points deductions. CHEATING, LYING, DESPICABLE BASTARDS.

Mistress Oakley could go unmentioned for almost the whole match.

Contracts torn up because they are crap, thereby bringing the total to CHEATING, LYING BASTARDS.

Well those barstewards voted to increase the parachute payments to £48 m (more than 3 times what we got), so even against all logic it wouldn't be too surprising to see them giving another helping hand to Cheats FC.

You mean to operate his own way to help bankrupt every club?

It could be worse, we could be in P****y's position.

I'd settle for a straight swap. (Not that I want AP to leave at the moment.)

:lol: Nicola Cortese

Therein lies the rub. How on earth can he conclude that, apart from AA/BC's say so? InJustice Mann could've told AA to go back and work out a better CVA (something closer to the Griffin's).

Good question. Did the incompetent HMRC QC even bring this up?

If that's true, then any dodgy administrator could come up with a "friendly" Tom, Dick and Harry to claim enough of the unsecured debt to win the CVA vote, and always win any appeal. Oh, wait a minute .....

You mean the 10-man ManUre team with Ferdinand in goal?

Sheff. Utd. don't have £48 million of parachute payments. But I do like what you are saying.

£16m to £20m, not £16m or £20m. And besides, the length of stay in the PL is irrelevant. Chainrai needs only to guarantee that he will fund the debt payments – which on a 20p in the pound basis equate to between £16m and £20m http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2010/aug/06/balram-chainrai-portsmouth-nothing-promises

Well, just to play devil's advocate, it is possible that AP himself (rather than NC) told some of his players that he isn't expecting to retained if we're not in the top 4 by Christmas.

Actually that is rather good, isn't it?

If that's true then the Charlton fans must be right.

AA is already talking about paying back between £16-20 million. So now there isn't even an exact figure. Just like the sham where they bluffed their way out of court in the insolvency case and the debt amount then, now I'd bet the same will happen with the unsecured debt amount. (Deano6's analysis above is great reading). CHEATING, LYING BASTARDS.

"You see, HMRC waited until two days before the vote to increase its claim from £24m to £37m." Someone refresh my memory please: is that true? I thought it happened quite a bit before the vote.

I reckon his position will be the same either way: horizontal on some nice beach in the Bahamas.

What if they get promoted at the first attempt, and then sells immediately after?

I believe that's his plan. If it weren't, why bother hiring a decent manager, and try (and succeed) in sliming around the transfer embargo?

Well, it depends if any brown envelopes have been given to certain persons in power, or not.

Just watch the amount owed to unsecured creditors drop as quickly as a pair of knickers in Portsmouth now that AA has succeeded in stopping HMRC getting the required 25%. That, plus 4p in the £ this year (minus costs, apparently), could encourage BC to push for a quick return and PL riches. It's almost like they have a pact with the devil. First time going up they had Mad Milan and the Digital ITV collapse on their side, and this time increased parachute payments, Scudamore helping them out, McWhiney leaving just in time and a much more spineless FL (embargo not properly enforced), HMRC screwing up, the list goes on. I reckon it's more likely they'll go up this year than go down. Hope I'm wrong. CHEATING, LYING BASTARDS.

But they'll get -10 points. Just like the rosey cheeked bastard, if they go into administration now their timing will be terrible.