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Those figures are a stark reminder of how much trouble they are in - it looks horrendous in print. So I think they need to pay £1.8M this calendar year, which should be possible with PPs - but good luck with finding next year's £1.6M! It's fair to say that relegation would render them totally and terminally insolvent. Alfie is going to have to deliver papers to every house in Hampshire AND clean cars to get them out of this mess.

I think GM is referring to the next predictable attempted rescheduling. Regular readers will remember that the parachute payments have always been the answer to everything and that all was fine because they were ringfenced. As debt went unpaid and they were spent on wages, this was downgraded to earmarked and in reality I believe they just keep spending money that they know is needed sometime later. I owe someone £10 next week, I have £10 in my pocket, shall I save it and pay my debt or buy shiny stuff and worry about it next week? My understanding was that the PPs nearly cover the player debt, so as long as they don't continue to splash out on stupid wages and save some money from their other income, they will be able satisfy the terms to exit administration, thus completing the current takeover. History and the attitude of the PDT would suggest that they will have a shortfall and will once again go begging to the former hero players to save the club again by taking yet another cut. Let's remember this debt was originally £24M and the players have already done them a huge favour. If that is their only plan, from what I've read of Dave Kitson he would rather dance on their graves than take a further cut. Turn the music up!

Ladies at football? And not there just to serve drinks or to pretty-up the bookies desk? Whatever next! If it carries on down this dangerous path they'll let one own a club one day and that'll signal the official end of football.

brave, strong, and by the sound of it, correct decision from the club. It's easy to tell-off your own players but still play them - but this sends out a message. He's lucky that there has been a change, Cortese would have popped him right there and got Boruc to bury him later. I'd rather the club punished players and had some integrity and standards, unlike clubs that are happy to sign convicted rapists and criminals, or who overlook misbehaviour from their best players for commercial reasons. The only surprise is that we are nearly in February and Osvaldo still hasn't got a red card yet. I wouldn't write his Saints career off - but the ball is definitely in his court, he owes us, and his next ninety minutes in a Saints shirt could well decide his future.

please, please, post stuff just to move that picture up the page and out of sight. Meanwhile I'm off to the Antiques Roadshow to get a price on my Halfords towrope. I believe it was the original that towed the damaged HMS Victory back from Trafalgar, was later used as a heavy duty doglead by Churchill as he walked the royal Corgis around Southwick prior to D-Day, and was last seen keeping back the two million fans on Southsea Common. In the same skip I found the shroud of Turin and what appears to be the complete skeleton of King Alfred, minus a bit of pelvis.

As it becomes more likely that a former owner is going to be convicted of serious offences, at what point does football admit that pompey and their players were clearly financed by organised crime, using laundered and stolen money? Or are we meant to sweep that under the carpet with the promised financial investigation? The blue carpet is getting too lumpy, and is nearly touching the ceiling.

I thought the Lido was going to use the swimsuit as a marquee for their grand opening? Either way they won't be losing any more games to flooding this season at Fatpipes. On her recent showing Penny just needs to 'dive' onto the pitch and that will clear any surface water.

We were all that age once!.....though I don't recall me and my brother being used as media tools to attack religions with fabricated BNP-supported claims, or as poster boys for misleading PR campaigns for the extraction of cash from the community. But it was a long time ago so I may have forgotten. Either way, the cheeky little pluckster is old enough to know not to chuck a grand down a black hole!

Rosy-cheeked urchin turns solitary brave tear into blue river of hope. Old story regurgitated as part of desperate Trust PR campaign to raise funds before looming deadline in an effort to prevent presidents taking majority control. #notnews I seem to recall his lovely-looking mother being linked to interesting political groups last time this story was published?....

Re that Tweet conversation - roughly speaking.... Trust member is slagging off pompey-supporting journo who has voiced the opinion to his 108,000 followers that the pompey board is inept and taking them out of the football league. Trust member not happy. Follow that trail and you find another writer being attacked for claiming that the club is paying Chanrai quite a chunk every month for another four years, and that Robinson is getting over £100K a month. He admits to getting some detail wrong but stands by the amounts. If true it all looks a bit Admin V - the final frontier, as mentioned by GM. Either way the locals are revolting.

Has Barker managed to demotivate the only quality player in his squad?.... Connolly revealed he has stepped back from the coaching duties he was carrying out under Guy Whittingham. He said ‘I’m just training and playing when selected. Which translates as, I was overlooked for the job and the bloke they gave it to has not only taken me off coaching duties but he doesn't even know a good player when he sees one - now I can't even get in the team so all you clubs out there, please come and rescue me with a player/coach offer.

The rewriting of history as it happens extends to lesser sports too, as you can see from this early entry in the 2014 Misleading Sentence of the Year competition. PENNY Mordaunt has triumphed for Portsmouth after completing her dive on national television without any major hitches. 1. She didn't triumph. 2. She didn't really complete a dive. 3. There were major hitches. Other than those minor points, spot on!

if I read that right the presidents are £183K away from taking a majority shareholding - meaning the next begging bowl to sort cashflow will be pivotal. People more expert than me might like to explain why they would want to tie up so much money if there really is no way of getting dividends nor selling without the permission of so many people? What is in it for them, especially the two who are not pompey fans?

I never thought I'd laugh out loud at diving! Yes, she has some bottle to do that, so fair play - and it was an excellent choice of red and white BUT....that was like someone tipping a paving slab off the top board out of a wheelbarrow. Do they not get to practice? I'm no expert but she has the sleek aerodynamics of a portakabin. They could have tipped a wardrobe off there and it would have scored more for style. Surely you don't score extra points for emptying the pool, she was responsible for a tsunami.

In 1975 it was a brilliant tackle. In 2014 it looks like a red card. Any TV pundit who reckons it is fine as he 'got the ball' is a dinosaur who has no understanding of the modern game and has no relevant insight to offer. To be a brilliant tackle in 2014 he should have led with his toes and taken the ball cleanly, not lunged in studs first. He has form. He is that type of player.

Just heard some mad stuff on Solent. Barker wants to thin out his squad, he says he has 28 players and that is way too many. Get with the programme Richie boy, send out those youngsters, make excuses, then plead for special help from the nasty league. That after Jervis has said that his problems with international clearance might have been ironed out if he had been trying to sign for a big club. He has gone off template!

Take That shouldn't have reformed, it was never going to be the same again. That picture reminds me of the Kop on one of those great European nights, or perhaps one of the Old Firm games. Massive.

That's not a newspaper article that's an advert. Please chuck a grand into a black hole, we'll give you a sheet of A4 in return. And if you were shafted by us last time, take it out of the £13M that will come flooding into the city tomorrow.

That bandstand picture - I'm not stupid but I just don't understand it. What are they doing, and why? Who thought it was a good idea? It's all wrong - from the fairground stuffed animals made from stolen and murdered cats to the topless dancer who isn't allowed inside the performance area. And why is there so much misery and confusion on the faces of all? Is this a picture of punishment time taken inside some perverted prison? It's just wrong on every level.

If that was our big 'meltdown' I thought it was rubbish. No firesale, no children losing limbs, no money-laundering, no one shot in the street nor pensioners robbed. We didn't even get charged with tax-evasion. Some hysterical fans did lose the plot and the media demonstrated how little understanding of our finances they have, but overall it was rubbish. We'd better have a decent crisis in the summer to entertain our neighbours or I shall demand a refund from the bedwetting tabloids.

Quick, the nutters are out, hide! Or just keep off the main board... Come on in, you're safe here, we've seen every bonkers conspiracy theory about potential ownership and funding, or lack of it, before, so nothing surprises us. Make yourself at home. Actually don't, you could be off to Moneyfields at very short notice. We're all doomed! Though some of us are less doomed than others.

I do hope we're not going to be asked to take sides between Cortese and the family. I never really got to grips with the whole Matt v Nicola, which one to invite to barbecues issue. So I think I might wait for some facts before getting too excited/worried.

The main problem with any skate insults over Cortese is that they've been telling us for five years how damaging he is for the club. But if they want to do a U-Turn if it suits then that's cool. I had all the same stuff about Nige - he wasn't up to getting us out of the championship, what a terrible manager he was, how he wasn't the guy for us, and then how bad it was that he was leaving. And the myth-peddling skate over the road assured me four years ago that Cortese had sold the club and had left, so I've heard it all before. It's a tired old desperate path of misinformation that they tread - and perhaps it's one paved with a hint of.....what's the word, jealousy?

Avram's hoping for another cup run that goes beyond a semi. The rest of you need to calm down. Think of something like league tables, or Martin Keown's sister.

Come on, you know the script by now. Just like one of Avram's business contacts in Amsterdam, they will overstretch themselves in the window. They will ignore their own wagecap and do anything to ensure survival. Unwise contracts will be given to fragile donkeys, these bits of paper will cause problems after the parachute payments have ended - but it will be enough to keep them in the football league and it only leaves a problem for tomorrow - the day that never comes. And then the annoying bit. The current suicidal close-encounter with disaster will be written out of history. Rather than a spotlight being turned on the mismanagement at ALL levels within the club, their survival will be hailed as a great escape, it will be peddled to the few as an achievement on a par with past glories, a launchpad for the bestest plucky promotion push next season. All of it roared on by the amazing travelling blue army who can take either 2,003 or 2,365 (depending on which local media figure is accurate) to a local derby one hour away. Let's remember that sleepygiant Coventry took 7,000 to an away game, little Leeds take more than that to the opening of an envelope, even struggling West Ham would fill Oxford's ground. If the few now realise that their beloved lowly pompey is just a League Two minnow, then that is a decent away following. But if they are still claiming to be the best fans in world football, supporting a bigger club than Celtic, Barcelona, Boca Juniors, Poznan and Liverpool, then it all looks a little bit sad. In fact it looks ridiculous.