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Because they were born stupid and they will die stupid. FL: Now little Skates, I've got some good news & some bad news Skates: We only want the good news (Like they print in the News) FL: You've only incurred a -10 points penalty Skates: But surely that's really bad FL: It might seem that way until you read the small print at the end of our document about secured debt and budgetry constraints... Skates: That's too difficult for us to grasp so we won't read it. We just want our points back, it's not fair, we're the bestest, we're being victimised, they can take our points but they'll never take our spirit etc etc etc.

I used to wonder why every picture of Nottarf Krap in every publication made the place look like a sh1thole. Then I realised......

Which is worse - going pop now or at least 5 years of misery on tight budgets and the FL looking over their shoulder? If I was a S**** I'd be seriously tempted by total wipeout and a phoenix club run by the trust. At least you'd feel you were moving forward. The other way guarantees you years of teminal decline at best. You've gotta laugh, really, haven't you?

It's definitely getting there - death by a thousand cuts rather than a mercy killing.

I think this is the line that will ensure that justice is done - 4. Agree to a range of other restrictions on playing budgets, future borrowing and loan repayments for the next 5 seasons.

http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/sport/pompey/pompey-past/kanu-remains-in-nigeria-as-absence-rumbles-on-1-4040705 I particularly enjoyed the last line - Pompey fan Bob Beech, 45, from Milton, added: ‘He is another one of football’s spoilt brats. ‘Kanu has done very nicely out of Pompey and football in general but surely there is time when morals take over?’ They just don't get the concept of 'irony' on the inbred isle of Portsea, do they? Kanu's fall from grace among the phew is just one more little twist of the knife isn't it? I'm almost starting to feel that, whatever happens in the next few weeks, that they are getting their just desserts at last - Their cup-winning hero refusing to play as a financial dispute lumbers on, costing them money and tarnishing their cherished memories. Their brightest young players gone for a song. Their 'best' players going for free, eventually, after having every last penny they can get. Looking at non-league goalies and out-of-contract has-beens to base their squad on. They can't even sign a non-league coach. League One at best, and still likely to get a points deduction. No likelihood of ever fixing the clock and getting the fat out of the pipes. Karma may work its magic slower than we would like, but work it, it shall.

Lawrence actually sums up all that was wrong in Skateland. He must have been in the top 20 earners in the Champ and he wasn't even the Skates top earner! The first administration was bad enough, but the way they went about spending Lithuanian bank customers' money immediately they were free from it was beyond negligent. It was obvious to anyone who cared to look that Antonov was at best 'dodgy,' and Lampitt in particular must have known that CSI had only ever put a modest down-payment into the kitty. And anyone with a modicum of shame or decency would have at least waited a bit of time and seen some of the CVA money being repaid before splashing out on one of the highest earning groups of players in the Championship. At no point did the sums ever add up - it was just a blind gamble to get back to the Prem with an absolute disregard to those that they had fecked over on the way. Which is why anything less than -27 points and playing the youth team (I'll allow them their Slovenian goalie) means they have got away with it. Because anything less than that and they will just carry on as before.

It probably is a dream come true - the team he plays for - Triglav - were 9th out of 10 in the mighty Slovenian League and they play in a ground with a 2000 capacity. And 10,000 feet up a bloody mountain! Joining Havant & Waterlooville might well be a dream come true!

Before anyone gets to excited, I'm not suggesting that we are anywhere near as good as Spain, but the way they keep possession, keep recycling the ball, probing and prodding, passing the opposition into submission, is very similar to our own style. (Italy were the only other team to come close to it - no coincidence they both made the final.) It is about confidence and ability on the ball, not pace or aggression, and teams like huff-and-puff England looked to be playing a different sport. I am intrigued to see if we have the courage to play like it in the Prem, because if we do, we will do well against the old-fashioned style of play.

Sometimes I almost feel sorry for the residents of Portsea Island. There club is in total disarray - one week gone since CVA day, another £150k of deferred wages has accrued, and not a single player is any nearer leaving. Three weeks to total extinction and the last six stories in the Skate Pravda are Varney backs Pompey pulling power - soon to be ex-player talks up their ability to bring top players to the club Pompey training plan wins support - ex player explains why playing in the park with jumpers for goals is excellent news Appleton to put faith in young trio - three young players with a half-dozen games between them are going to lead the club back to the promised land Appleton won’t dismiss loan return for West Brom duo - two Prem players return Appy's texts, so might come back to the club Birch opens Football League talks - don't worry, we can start signing up Prem players on loan The Pompey legends moulding stars of tomorrow - four ex-players with zero coaching experience are somehow going to produce the next AOC in the above park It is totally bizarre, like something out of Soviet Russia. A total ignoral of the real events. No wonder those simple fish-fondling folk still don't see the catastrophe that is heading their way.

I think it has to be a red and white striped toaster and Skate logoed toast, possibly heading towards something nasty.... If TBH is deferring £30k/week, that's £750k since the turn of the year, plus of course they are deferring the NI etc that becomes due on it so the debt must be accruing at a staggering rate. Also, you can see why no-one wants to leave without their cash - the only leverage he, and the others, has over the DCFSBs is his continual drain on their bank account. I'm just starting to think that they really might not get away with it this time.

I think this is the point - the perception has been created by Birchy boy that Kanu has greedily asked for £300k, whislt the plucky administrator has only offered him half that, but the reality is, all he has been offered is a 20 Euro note and a signed photo of TCWTB. The reason so little progress has been made is that there isn't even the money for a compromise, so the players may as well sit tight and see what develops as they have little to lose, rather than accept 20% of 20% spread over 5 years less expenses..

When you look at the Magnificent Ten, none of them are going to get close to what they are on at Pompey. Most of them are 30+ and playing for a team that got relegated - who in the Championship has got the sort of money they are after? And for Mokoena, Kanu and Kitson, the prospect of getting even a modest wage is slim. I read that Mokoena wants to go back to South Africa, but if he does he will be on next to nothing. It got me thinking and made me quite angry. He is being villified for holding out for what he is due, but that £500k he is owed makes him and most of his relatives secure for life in what is a very poor country. He signed a contract in good faith when there were other offers and at his age and his background that is a life-altering sum for many people. Same applies to Kanu. But all of those players are near the end of their careers and Pompey encouraged them to take one last big payday and now want to renege on the deal. Birch and Appy seem to have been infected by the Skate virus. It is rotten to the very core.

There's only one team in Hampshire...

Don't forget Pele of the Cape Verde Islands....

But they're not well.....

He's got a brother called Keanu who plays for Yeovil, and quite possibly a mad mother.

Right move, right time for him. What he needs more than anything is to be first choice somewhere and play 40+ games in a season. I still think he has the capacity to be a good keeper, but he has spent too much of his career sat on the bench. And Good luck to him.

A night out with TBH (you're paying)

They just can't get them out, can they? I particularly like the last line. The trouble is, anywhere else he goes he is unlikely to get a third of the wage he is on at Nottarf Krap. Hoping to get £800k for him is a joke, even if he ought to be worth it. Paying someone that amount to take on the remainder of his contract is probably still not enough. http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/sport/pompey/pompey-past/erik-i-don-t-regret-switch-to-pompey-1-3960192 Unfortunately things happened and it was sad to see. As things stand, I still plan to enjoy my time here because I will be back for next season. ‘I’m still under contract. It says two more years, so I have to stick to that unless something else happens. ‘You never know but I’m sticking to my contract as things stand.’

It's all relative. He might be less dodgy than some, but as we've all learnt, it is a well dodgy profession to start with.

Personally, I think Karma has a funny way of dishing out justice. For those of us who think he is as dodgy as hell, and got away with his financial shenanigans, this is perfect retribution. No England job & unlikely to ever get another top-six Prem job and no more darling of the press - no amount of money (which he has enough of, anyway) will fill that gap. Justice has been done.

This is what Birch's poker hand is all about. These threats that the players get nothing FROM POMPEY in a liquidation are aimed at the FL and PFA more than the players. Their hideous excess is a threat to both organisations.

This is an interesting little snippet with hideous consequences if they do survive. ‘Unpaid wages the players are due and future wages need to be compromised. Those payments are going to be spread over time. There are four or five who might have to leave under compromise agreements, others we are looking to sell. ‘There is interest, I know that but no bids on the table at present. ‘It is just ongoing.’ Remember Leeds paying half of Kewell's wage at Liverpool years after he had left? A compromise with TBH isn't 'We'll pay you half what we owe you, take it or leave it." In modern football, the only inviolable rule is that players will get all that is contractuially due to them. So a compromise with him would be £5k/week for the next SEVEN years. Times that by the other dozen high earners and their misery could go on into the next decade without any chance of rebuilding.