rallyboy

There's trouble at Tesco... Overstating their profits by a quarter of a billion pounds. They seem to be a company that has tried to fool people into thinking that they are doing much better than they are and are worth more than people suspect. It's a disease.

Did I just hear Robbie 'Saints are nailed on for relegation' Savage making excuses for Liverpool as they have a lot of new players who will need time to gel? Ditto Newcastle, apparently they sold loads of players and need time as well... In the dumb blonde bombshell's defence, he does apologise every week for getting it so wrong. And rightly so.

milking plebs since 1898. Wasn't it Zebra Finance who were doing the same gig on season tickets? Is someone muscling in on the whole bad credit rating Jeremy Kyle homedrawn-tats dentist-dodging payday loans territory?

Avram has got a job in Bangkok??? ...............I had to censor the rest as my legal team isn't available at this time of night - but I may well return to the subject.

I went to day one on Monday and it was the dullest thing I've seen since.....well, probably West Brom. The weather that has come down this morning hopefully secures the few vital points for a draw. If it rained in West End like it did here the pitch must be under water. Essex must be disappointed that we haven't been wiped out yet as looked likely.

The one thing you have to admire about loan sharks is that they know their market when they see it.

Hello, is that Nottingham City Council? Yeah you don't know us but we were your main rivals for the football gig....no, we're not Manchester, we're pompey......portsmouth - the passionate ones? With the ships and stuff?....We won the cup? No, not the European one.... Yeah that's us!.....And we did have a lot of debt yes.....and the prostitutes...and the money-laundering, see you do remember us! No, we haven't paid the cup teams yet...... yeah, we're in League Two as you ask, but we are doing very well so we'll probably be playing each other pretty soon....yes, it is good to have a dream. Anyway, enough smalltalk, we thought you did a super job trying to compete with us in a competition that only we could win, but you were short of one ingredient, so we'd like to help you out and send you something... Yes, technically you did win but we were quite shocked as we are the bestest, so we thought we'd help you little guys out with some bottles of passion. Yes, that is what I said....so how many crates of passion do you guys think you need to bring you up closer to our level? Hello....hello?

Is it fair to assume that Andy Awford has never been to a proper ground and doesn't own a television? That claim is bonkers-delusional, even by rabid frothing-at-the-mouth Portsea standards. The timing is rather unfortunate too - anyone want to tell Liverpool that Anfield on a Champions' League night is nowhere near as good as a half-packed fortress fatpipes for the visit of Dagenham and Redbridge?

Nottingham may well be the so-called choice of the handful of judges but the people's choice will be pompey, every day of the week. This minor setback is not a defeat, it's a victory for passion that demonstrates once again that the bestest are right up there with the elite of the world game. In many ways, pompey are the real winners here.

My Dad died of cancer a few years ago and it dawned on me at halftime that he was never a great fan of Franny - but he definitely would have been today. What a great achievement, what a top bloke - what a fantastic day to be a Saints fan.

I think a lot of people will be donating today. What an achievement though, and what a top bloke. Good to see the chairman is joining him for part of it, that is a nice touch when you think of Franny v the chairman in years past. He's coming home, he's coming home! ps are we allowed to abuse people who ignore him and go for a crap pie instead, or is that unsaintly?

anyone who saw her go off the top board knows that she can clear a pool of water quicker than any pumps that they have.

It just seems odd that after describing his evidence as contradictory and unreliable, the Judge has still accepted his version of events as the truth, on EVERY count. To the layman it appears that he has won every 50:50 decision in the trial, and several that were 25:75 against. Maybe he's just a lucky man. PS anyone else got a forum stalker who likes to follow them around all threads disagreeing with everything? Not seem him yet today, he'll be here in a minute....

And cleared of possession of ammunition....that he had in his possession. Add in the judge saying that the accused wasn't to know that he might kill someone if he emptied four rounds into the small room that they were in, and despite the guilty verdict this morning as expected, some might observe that the whole thing has not been a great advert for what most reasonable people might regard as justice.

My immediate thought was it's OJ all over again, but when you look at the detail.... The prosecution has failed to prove his intent. Personally I suspect he did it intentionally, but only the two of them know - there is no proof. So that judgement is probably a fair ruling with the evidence. If however he is cleared of the other charges then there is a big question mark over the whole thing. I expect him to be found guilty on the other charges and jailed, hopefully for a long enough term so that most reasonable people think that some justice has been served.

I bet the person who really owns it doesn't consider it complex at all. Here's the paperwork, there's the deeds. The End. And I'll bet a quid that it's not AllNewPFC2013.org or whatever they call themselves.

Gingeletiss is right to be amused, the current business has no legal claim prior to 2013. The trust claimed connections to previous businesses, legally challenged, and lost. It's now official, their glorious history goes all the way back to spring last year. So they are doing pretty well for newbie minnows thrown in the with the big boys like Fleetwood and Morecambe.

That's not fair, it was pompey who sold him and a contract is a contract - they deserve the cash to pay dividends to their many shareholders. It's as if the authorities have got it in for them, making them pay off a tiny percentage of debt from one of their many administrations, instead of letting them splash out on Lidl bubbly. It's a blow, half a million quid goes a long way in League Two, even though they are debt-free. Never mind.

Valid point about who calls the 'challenge'.... Incident occurs, players kick up fuss, play continues. Ref carries on reffing the game but asks 4th official if something happened that he missed for whatever reason, it may even be a specific question as in Rugby League - 'did no.5 get the ball?'.... 20 secs later he gets info and makes decision. The players and crowd know it may well be being reviewed and will feel some further justice is being determined, even if original decision stands. This means that the refereeing team retains power and control, no manager can halt the game for any reason. It might reduce the number of ridiculous mistakes that have crept in - that and a bit of consistency and explanation would go a long way. It's a difficult job and no one is perfect, but some of the mistakes we see are not the work of professionals who have been trained correctly. Any help that can be given to them should be. At the moment they are being hung out to dry, and they can't even explain why they made a decision, sharper fans will note that he was unsighted or it was a very tight call, others will just vilify. There is no simple answer, but we certainly don't want a complicated one. Leave power with the ref, and give him more tools.

Am I the only one what think's that Awford should not of bin either our English teacher nor the manager neither? Sort em out Mack, they has gone all feral again and need your grammar input. Is she about?

I don't see any reason for the few to panic, they've just been to one of the bigger clubs in the division and they did put up a plucky fight. Their time will come, they'll get a glorious giantkilling three points at somewhere like Morecambe or Shrewsbury, and then we'll look silly for mocking how smalltime they've become.

Putting aside obvious stumbling blocks, strengthening from last year by retaining most players but also bringing in the new ones would have been an expensive exercise. With our recent history I would have been nervous had we spent that sort of money with no attempt to balance the books. We clearly overspent on Osvaldo, perhaps on Ramirez, you don't need too many of those mistakes before the balance sheets goes a bit storrie. I'd love us to be able to finish as high as possible but it has to be through sensible spending. Call me safe or risk-averse but I don't want us trying to compete in the transfer market with Chelsea or Man City. I'd rather we punched above our weight in 6th-8th, unlike Liverpool who believe they can win the title, or Spurs who think they can finish in the top four. IMO they are both weighed down by delusion and thus doomed to underachievement. I'm happy that we are gently cautious and have made a profit on summer business, I don't wish to play Dagenham, pompey or Rochdale again anytime soon, other than in the preliminary rounds of a cup competition. With every year that we retain our status and build well, the gulf between the Premier League and the Championship widens. We are in a good place.

If United value Shaw at £31M and have just paid about £60M for the other dude then we'll have £45M for Morgan ta. Barring that, they can sod off and compete for sixth with the rest of us. If we have no further exits today (all the best Jos) and the performances continue to improve, then personally I think we can judge the summer business to be a slightly fraught but heavily-disguised success. : For everyone apart from the owner... If that really was her best attempt at a meltdown-inspired asset-stripping firesale, then I'm afraid she doesn't know what she's doing.

I've been told that Newport kicked pompey off the park and the ref let them get away with it.....also I heard that pompey spent too much time diving and the ref was a homer. Was it somewhere in between perhaps?

I await The9 telling us of his day out....how was it? Okay-ish?