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Didnt realise he had turned up at Burnley Seems there are a number of football 'Execs' eg Peter Risdale/Peter Storrie etc who do the rounds, get well paid, and never seem to achieve anything positive for the clubs who employ them!!

Blimey is that really neil Shipperley? At first glance thought it was Razor Ruddock!!

I suppose it may be some consolation to those PFC directly employed staff and also those working for suppliers who may go down the pan due to another financial crisis at the Park, that the club's sponsors will be able to sort them out with a new job!!

A very relevant point Marc Wilson would probably have played regularly for Pompey Lawrence has done OK when he's not injured but Kitson seems to have been somewhat of a failure. All this for an annual increase in the wage bill of approx £1.5m x 3 years? and a bit of Agents commission As you say..'Great Business'

Liked the captioned ...after guiding Southampton to three Premiership titles...if only!! btw wasnt there rumours of some sort of betting scam when Harry moved to Saints from Pompey? ie loads of money being placed on Harry to come to us before the rumours started

In an attempt to prepare for a brave new world, the Pompey Trust will shortly be renamed ''Trust Pompey' John Westwood is very pleased about this and he is at the tattoo parlour now getting rid of the previously mispelt 'Pompey Truss'

Wonderwhat you do now if you own a Saab in this area? Are parts still available

Reminds me of the SCUM strike breaker lie when in actual fact it was Portsmouth Dockers in the mid 70's who turned out to be strike breakers going against their 'brothers' down in Plymouth in a dispute over the emerging Brittany Ferry service. It was Soton Dockers who took up the cause and blockaded Portsmouth Commercial Docks. None of this ever gets reported but by shouting loud enough the fairly story about Soton strike breakers has passed into folklore I wonder if Ho picked up his elaboration of the facts from a relative working in Pompey Docks

Does this mean that the Pompey News will renew its campaign to get Harry knighted?

Good report some added comments

Would be interested to learn if Butterfield is injured

Sure it is Remember when he sang it live at HT in front of the dirty Leeds fans at the Dell and got escorted off by the police?

Anyone know if Pulis is still at Aldershot? he doesnt seem to feature on their web site

Seemd to follow the usual (away) TV game No win and a red card!!

Another saints No 7 scored a hattrick in an England jersey Terry Paine in a 8-2 win over N ireland at wembley if my memory serves be correct

Intersting stat earlier about relative weights of Lee and Billy Sharp Assumed Sharp was chunkier Lee received a decent knock down from Ricky neat the end of the game but got nudged off the ball by the, admittedly very sturdy Cardiff CB. Said to my mate at the time that I thought Sharp would have been a bit more robust in the same situation. However agree with other posters that it is not possible to judge a player (especially a foreigner with no English) after one cameo role Hopefully he will do OK after getting used to English football. Have to say I am am far more concerned with the Spurs loanee. He seemed to be a complete loss during the Leicester game and wondered who scouted him!!

Dear old Rupes and co received an awful lot of stick from Saints fans when his stewardship of the club led to Admin (for what, one relatively small unpaid bill?) Interesting that whilst Rupes had to put up with a whole lot of vitreol, shoe and coin throwing etc, down the road the succession of those in charge have had welcome banners draped on motorway bridges, asked for autographs and, in Henry Redknapp's case, put forward for a knighthood!!!

I remember a lad we had in the Youth squad many years ago by the name of Peters?? Scored goals for fun and look a bright prospect. Lost his way, ended up at Brentford and from there to obscurity You can never tell at that age

Think Dave's butler once bought a book on the ancient art of tattooing from a second hand book dealer in Petersfield and his nanny purchased their kids Xmas pressies from a recent Toy Fair and was served by our resident purveyor of inside gossip on all things PFC.

Interested to see he went out on the pitch after the game and shook the hand of most/all of the Saints team Perhaps he was a bit relieved that Cardiff had been able to withstand our late pressure but it struck me as unusual and a nice courtesy Didnt think that Cardiff were they good individually but well organised as a unit Good job Kenny Miller had an off day though

Minty What a great shot The station itself looks like it serves a small seaside town in the west country I think around this time there were plans for another line into Soton (avoiding the tunnel) which would come down from Didcot Land was purchased in expectation and this included a prospective new station at Shirley where the park is now, (St James Rd?) opposite the old Childrens Hospital never seen this before

Great old photo of the Western Docks, presumably taken just before/after WW2 re the stations. Soton Docks/Terminus was the original station for Soton (built late 1840's)but was superceded when Southampton West, later Central was built in the 1870's. At that time the water used to run very close to the station until Millbrook Bay was filled in in the 1920/30's. I remember going up to cup tie at Hull on a special train in 1966. Left Soton terminus at 11.00Pm and got into a very foggy Hull about 7 am. Back at 4 am and had to be up at 6am to do my sunday paper round in heavy rain Lost 1-0 Also went by train the the FA Cup Semi Final at Villa park v Man Utd in 1963 i think there were something like 15 special trains and the sight of seeing all the Saints fans milling round Central Station as we walked down the hill was somrthing I will never forget

Wonder what the sitation is with payment fro use of their training ground at Stoneham Lane? The Youth Academy used to train next door at Stoneham Park (ex AC Delco's) but they have recently been given their marching orders due to payment issues

Apparently there has been only one person who has failed the FAPPT test and that reportedly was some Boxing Promoter/Alleged Gangstar who tried to take over at Chester City when they were still in the League

Portsmouth News 20 May 2008 'ARISE SIR HARRY SAY THE PEOPLE' 03 July 2008 'NEWS PETITION GOES TO THE QUEEN' 2,000 signature petition sent to the Queen demanding that dear old Harry gets knighted Perhaps someone with approapriate IT skills could transfer the appropriate articles from the News archives for all to see Interesting to see that at least one Pompey MP and members of various supporters organisations, in cluding the Pompey Trust were vocal in their support of the motion!!