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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.

perhaps the sight of moneypenny in a swimsuit just confirmed to Tom Daley what the rest of us already knew about him.

I must have missed Chelsea going into administration because they couldn't pay the bills, when did that happen? Someone needs to go directly to accountancy school for beginners - do not pass go, and definitely do not help yourself to £200. It is 2014 for god's sake - with technology and progress, in this day and age there is no reason why anyone should still confuse clubs that service debt, with those that steal from dying children. I thought that level of ignorance over basic business principles had been stamped out along with scurvy and the plague.

Ryan Taylor for sale, sold as seen - spares or repair.

apologies to whoever mentioned it a while back but I've just started reading the latest Secret Footballer. I know it was referenced and I don't think it got much discusssion at the time - but, if we are assuming that it is Kitson, I didn't realise how much stuff he says about pompey. He despises them, and their chairman for getting up in the director's box and singing along with terrace abuse, he had to threaten them with legal action about his money because they kept trying to beat them down, and threatened them with media coverage on 'other matters', and makes the claim in the book that the new owners basically misled the public and took cash off them. It is quite an eye-opener and supports a few Nutjob theories about players being bullied and abused while the champagne still flowed upstairs. So bombshell news - pompey don't come out of it terribly well.

She'll make a splash alright, if she doesn't get harpooned by a boat full of Japanese fishermen first. Her coming in off a ten metre board could signal the end for Tipner and other low-lying flood-threatened areas of the city. She does appear to be drifting rapidly from a job in politics to an obsession with 'look at me, look at me, look at me!'

Hello, remember when we hounded you out of the club, booed you, called you greedy, attacked you on Twitter, forced you into a public statement of support for the Trust, then booed you again when you came back? Well forget the wages we owe you, we'll be trying to reduce that agreed figure sometime soon anyway, but could you give us £900 please towards our drinks bill? And we only take cash.

It's like a football revolution. First they talk about setting up this scouting network thing, now they're offering financial advice. The rest of football must be reeling at these new ideas.

why should we care what other people think, have we gone all sensitive? Remember, we are the south coast club, the club that papers refused to name and made cartoons about. We treated our previous manager so badly everyone hated us and wanted us relegated. For a week. Now the world is supporting Clattenberg against us? Good luck with that lost cause, you'd be better off petitioning for a Jimmy Savile statue. On current form, Clattenberg's a whistling accident waiting to happen, anyone who wants to stand in his corner is welcome to. Soi f^ck what anyone else thinks, we've offloaded a crap referee off our backs for a bit and have pointed a spotlight at him and Lallana. I'm pretty sure I know which one of those two will drop a clanger first and leave his supporters looking bloody stupid. And don't bother to troll me with fake defence of a consistently inconsistent crap ref who has had three shockers against us in a year, I don't bite. No really, don't bother.