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And of course the Pompey News backed by any number of fans and locally celebrities ran a campaign to get a knighthood for the wonderful Henry Redknapp and even suggested including the now discredited Peter Storrie!!!

Re Comparative Attendances Since both clubs entered the Football League in 1920/1, Saints have had a higher average home gate on 54 of the 88 seasons Our lowest average crowd was 9,064 in 1932/3 whereas Pompey recorded a figure of 8,269 in 1994/5 but seasonally adjusted this converts to 37,082 which coincides with their best ever average in season 1948/9 (note this was in a ground with a capacity of 52,000!!) Note also that in the 88 years of this comparison, Pompey had a larger capacity stadium for 74 years In more recent times ie since both clubs ended up in the same division in 1960/1 (ie a period of 55 seasons) Saints have recorded higher home league attendances for 52 seasons!!!!! Oh and the tickets for the Reading game ranged from £2 to £10 - a fair incentive

VVD seems to have pace and the ability to pass with two feet. However he doesn't seem to be particularly 'physical' or 'switched on' Really hope I am completely wrong but he seems to me to be a defensive version of Gaston Ramirez On a separate tack both the Celtic and Malmo fans create wonderful atmospheres.

Not for the first time I had to explain to a fan of another club that the term 'Scummer' was made up by Pompey fans in the 70's and has no relevance at all to a mythical strike breaking Southampton Company of Union Men. In fact it was Portsmouth Dockers who 'black legged' in the mid 1970's. It made me think of other 'myths' that some Pompey fans have made up without any facts to back them up. A few come to mind. Feel free to add any others. 1. The Liebherr family were war criminals 2. The so called 'Fans Charity' game was cancelled due to lack of interest. 3. Alan Ball 'loved' Pompey more than us 4. Saints don't have 'proper' supporters like John PFC Westwood!! 5. Saints fans never tried to assist financially during the John Deacon era when Pompey was going through one of its regular financial meltdowns 6. Pompey have won more competitive derby games against us. 7. Their average home crowds have consistently been greater than ours. 8. We used to average less than 10,000 at the Dell. 9. Historically Pompey have finished ahead of Saints in the League a greater number of times. 10. Pompey has more 'potential'!!! 5. Since both clubs entered Pompey have finished above Saints more times than

Much as I consider myself a long standing (and often long suffering!!) Saints fan, I don't have a particular issue with Celtic fans viewing us as a smallish provincial club. In comparison to Celtic and Rangers we are and so, to be fair, are almost all English clubs apart from perhaps Man Utd and Liverpool. It seems rather strange that, in recent years, Celtic have been viewed by some as a Southampton feeder club (and of course we have Steven Davis from Rangers too) Actually I'm quite proud of that

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And they never got close filling their ground when they won the two League titles just after WW2 Average of 37,000 in a 50,000+ capacity stadium with a load of sailors in town and a fair amount of Saints fans travelling down (no suggestion of the SCUM union story then of course!!)

I suppose the question being considered by Kat and her advisers are: 1. Is this valuation reasonable and should consideration be given to putting the club on the market (presumably all clubs are on the market in some way)? Allowing for the Liebherr's initial and ongoing investment, presumably there is a decent capital gain if the report's valuation is correct. 2. Should more be spent on the squad to prevent the spectre of relegation, especially as there are greater benefits from the new and improved TV deal? 3. Should the strategy follow the current line of obtaining a decent return on top ranked (and dissatisfied) players and trust in the Black Box, Youth team and Les Reed to bring in suitable replacements at cheaper prices? 4. The danger with options 2 & 3 is that relegation out of the Prem will reduce market valuation but I guess the club is not really looking at this scenario at the moment. If things do go pear shaped before January, it will be interesting to see what resources are used to improve things in the second part of the season

It should be noted that US Business company Forbes also did a similar exercise covering major European clubs and their valuations were rather different. Not sure where Saints ranked in that one

Apparently this is to do with land valuation, consistent profit and lack of debt Comment was made about Liverpool's valuation increasing when they complete their new stand and increase corporate activity However Spurs have a new ground in prospect so they will increase potential matchday revenue by over 60% In % terms Utd have increased their perceived value by 74% in two years, Man City by 126%, Chelsea & Spurs by 60% and Liverpool by 50% Newcastle are down 20% In comparison Saints are up 350%!!!

Tom Markham who, apparently, advises clients on the value of League clubs has produced an updated valuation list of Premier clubs. Saints who were second to bottom of the 'valuation list' in 2013 (only just ahead of Wigan) have seen their perceived valuation rise from £57.5m to £259m, the largest increase of any club. So I guess Katarina is well pleased with the family's investment However it does mean that the likely purchase price is well above the maximum any of us are likely to win on the Euro Lottery Other selected values are: Man Utd £1.8 billion Arsenal £1.1 " Man City £907m Chelsea £826m Spurs £710m Liverpool £537m Newcastle £221m Everton £206m

Scoobie Presume you still need to pass the equivalent of the 'knowledge' with the relevant Local Licensing Authority? If so that was relatively easy when I did it. Also do you need to pass CRB checks?

I did it part time for a few years when I was saving up for my first house Paid my mortgage but I hated it. OK early on in the evening when most of the customers were fairly nice but became more challenging as the evening progressed Think it may be even more challenging now as evidenced by watching a couple of well oiled, mouthy individuals getting into a cab at 4.30 pm !!! yesterday afternoon Best of luck if you do decide to progress the option.

As has been mentioned above only second game and how many of us realistically expected the same return as last year On the bright side we have the same amount of points this year, after two games, as last. Downside is that we have rarely been dominated by a team at home as we were today. Everton were bigger, faster and stronger than us and were well deserved winners. The next few League games will be important as we need to rack up some points to ensure we don't get dragged into the drop zone at an early stage. No need to press the panic button yet was that was as dire a performance as I can remember in recent times. Let's hope it is a one off!!

Agree with you especially if the team v Sheffield Utd turned up

Its all written in the stars Jose in straight swap for Ron Vlaar!!!!!!!!!!! (when he eventually recovers from his concrete related injury)

Agree Much better than expected and expect them to go up this year. Derby really were poor

Sorry Se it is already on the site

H v Danish side 20th August Away 27th

Arnhem 2015 and Marseille 1976 What a difference!!!!

Still as one supporter was proud to boast about McInnes ... 'Proper Pompey'... (innit!!)

I listened to this attempt at comedy hour in the car McInnes obviously sees himself as some kind of joker (perhaps that is, in fact, an apt description) It is fine to make jokes about rival fans/clubs but suggesting that it would be preferable that masonry from the crumbling stadium should fall on the head of a rival fan is probably not the wisest comment to be made by a senior official at Pompey. Again, whilst I am sure he was not too far from the mark with his very damning comments on Peter Storrie he could easily find himself at the wrong end of a writ. The new Manager comes with a reasonable CV at Chesterfield but his cheeky Scouse patter may not have gone down too well especially when he couldn't remember the names of some of his backroom staff. However he was able to wax lyrical about the U21's winning 5-0 at Burnham (who??) last night Interesting to see the ex Scummah, Scott Bevan, is GK coach at Pompey this season. To balance things up, I suppose you have to give Pompey fans some credit for selling 11,000 season tickets again (even though they are cheap) Interesting comparison here, someone at the club told me that if Saints sold all their hospitality for the season it equates to all the gate money Pompey get from an average 15,000 home attendance.

Some time in the past there was a Monk holding a staff with a halo over his head This was the emblem on the first Saints shirt I ever bought (from Toomers I think) White with red piping Wore it to death as a kid

He's out searching for Elvis!! Someone had to say it!!