sidthesquid

I think the point is you OBVIOUSLY don't mention being a Saints fan, just a concerned citizen

I do think writing to the FA has some merits - a few well-reasoned inquiries into how a team that owes so much money to the taxman & conned clubs like Lens out of Dindane when they clearly could never pay for him etc has been allowed to continue in their competition would help. Their website complaints procedure states that you need to write to the address below and that it refers to the FA Cup (I guess it would have even more merit if all the letters don't come with an SO postcode. Tragically I live in PO land, so I shall be writing) Customer Relations The Football Association Wembley Stadium PO Box 1966 London SW1P 9EQ

Having just seen the highlights on the BBC I'm glad that the ref had an aversion to giving handballs - Fonte could have had both of those in the area given by many other refs. Mr Hegley - you shared your ineptitude around fairly and all is forgiven.

Agreed, but he is 36 so possibly not for much longer

I thought he was okay, but not great, but even Fonte had a battle against Forster - he jumps well for a smallish bloke. But Seaborne is only young & was playing non-league two seasons ago, and personally I would back Pardew's judgement that he is going to be a very good player.

Do you actually read what is on here? There's very little bitterness - we are more than a bit ****ed off by the incompetence of Spuds & the ref (though at least it proves all the conspiracy theories you lot spout are drivel. The ref was clearly not corrupt, just as crap as they ever are), but we are not bitter. Your moment will still come, our fun still goes on, hey-ho.

You could have got 9/1 on Skates - I so nearly put a tenner - but I suppose it would have felt like dirty money. So the fun goes on

How cr*p are Spuds. I can't watch any more - I'm going to take the dog out. Poopey could win this

Is anyone else going to feel just a little bit dirty this afternoon cheering on Harry Redflaps? I could try and pretend I'm supporting Bale or Crouch, but I will feel a little soiled by the whole experience whatever the result.

Lies, damned lies & statistics...

That was a big, big win yesterday. Charlton are a good team (as good as any I've seen this season) and they were well up for it. We really had to fight hard all the way & by and large we were up to the challenge. The good thing is we could play at half-pace & turn over Orient, but we were able to find another gear against a top team. An overall good performance, but our spine was our strength - Davis, Fonte, Hammond, Lambert - joint men of the match.

Sometimes I feel like we're missing something here. How come Andy Android seems to carry on like everything is fine & being put in place for next season - a new CEO, talk of season tickets going on sale directly, an absolute presumption that the CVA is a formality. Is he whistling in the dark or does he know that Chainrai/the Gaydys will bail them out before next season. For instance this Clampitt guy must have a good idea what has been going on down the road, but is still giving up a job with the FA for it. Without lapsing into the world of the CHEATS are going to get away with it, it still seems like none of it quite squares at the moment with what we think we know.

By Jove, I think he's got it! Corp really is the brains of Portsea Island. Just start spreading the word on your own sites, we worked all this out weeks ago.

I'm normally on the pessimistic nickh wing of the forum (ie the CHEATS are going to get away with it), but I actually agree with this. In the current climate there is no way the FL are going to let a club get away with not paying HMRC £15million-odd quid. They are already under pressure about the football creditors first rule and Poopey have basically taken the p1ss. What the sanctions will be I don't know, but I reckon they will be severe ones for the CHEATS.

Yet another bit of cynical cheating. Even an organisation as inept as Poopey knew what number of games triggered the payment. My two guesses are that either they knew all along but pretended they thought it was twenty to keep him free for the semi, or perhaps more likely they have reached a deal with Lens to let him play two more games in exchange for continuing to pay him. Either way they are still CHEATS.

And the really tragic thing is we are nowhere near the real action yet. My prediction of 500 pages still holds good. Mind you I don't envy the poor s0d who has to edit this lot down for the book. (Edit - I have just realised I have written exactly 40 words - barely two lines - I reckon you need to up your estimate somewhat)

As some of us visionaries correctly predicted, Jesus has walked amongst the halt and the lame of Poopey this Easter and the sick are risen from their beds. Praise the Lord! (Or just possibly Avram Judas Grant was just conning the media fopr the sympathy vote) http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/frattonlatest/Pompey-given-triple-injury-boost.6205158.jp

Quote from Andy Android in the Guardian - Andronikou said Lloyd's potential buy-out was not at the top of his agenda. He said: "Its not a primary concern, a primary issue at the moment." I don't think he would be saying that if he was taking him seriously. He can't stop him trying, but he's clearly not expecting a cheque for £100 mill any time soon.

An instituation is an unusual spelling of the sort of place someone like Marc lives in, with nice soft walls and nurses and somewhere for an imaginary monkey chicken petting zoo

Was tat John Lakeman?

Delap never quite hit it off for us & I don't know why. Oakley was one of the best, most under-rated players we ever had. Our decline started almost to the day he did his cruciate when he was in the best form of his career. I'm glad he has recovered and is doing well at Leicester. Strachan made mistakes & isn't fireproof, but on balance his signings were mostly good, as were his team selections & results, unlike Burley who was mostly dire on all fronts, but still with the odd good moment

I guess we just have to go home happy that it was job done. They did enough, just, and sometimes you just have to take that and be grateful. And as others have said, this was the sort of game we'd normally lose, so I'm just going to let this one pass. Onwards & upwards - the Charlton game will be a totally different affair

You really are a saddo, aren't you? Anything over about 13500 you can't count because virtually all the empty seats are away fans & most of the rest are League Cup games. What have you got - barely half a dozen games under a sell out in seven seasons. Woopy-do. You have had that many this season. And as for the cups, your attendances over the last few years have been truly pathetic. D- Corpy. Must do much better, I'm afraid

Even their players are a bunch of whinging kn0b-jockeys - quote Vanden Borre But the on-loan right-back insists he was harshly treated by referee Bennett. He said: 'I should not have been given the first yellow card because I got the ball and not the man. I tried to tell that to the referee, but he took no notice. 'Then for the second one, as the ball came towards me I tried to chest it down but it just hit the top of my arm." Anyone who saw both incidents knows the truth - he is a deluded, whining CHEAT