rallyboy

I suspect that liquidation could be more unlikely next time. Write off yet MORE debts and you are left with a small club with a decent size fanbase for League Two. It could be run on a shoestring - in theory. Unless the next bunch repeated history and started to overspend, but I'm sure that wouldn't happen. The FL could have pressured them but they let them off with the last dodgy administration exit, so I can't see them doing anything, and we've established through some odd decisions that they clearly have friends in high places when it comes to court appearances. I expect them to stumble on whatever future madness occurs.

is it just me being a bit Nutjobbish, or are pompey currently spending their way out of trouble? If they ever file any accounts, I suspect they will show that the wages have crept a bit. The recent PR campaign about projections (not facts) will have muddied the waters, but the accounts will tell the real story. Luckily the parachute payments cover any insolvent trading. Forever!

As a football club they have become irrelevant. Until they start ripping up the divisions they will just exist as an occasional source of comedy.

Antiques Roadshow meets Mastermind. Isn't that the armchair off HMS Victory upon which Nelson drew his final breath? And he's wearing Davy Crockett's original shirt from the Alamo... Nice Ming vase in the corner, and he should get a few quid for Elton John's dentures.

sorry mate - wouldn't want to be accused of plagarism - and it certainly wasn't me on there! Hadn't seen that....they can't have done the Avram one?...the RB Corporation registered copyright restrictions on all prossie/Horton Heath gags a while back.

As a gurning Avram said when the police raided Horton Heath, Ive started so I'll finish.... The overpaid battling midfield heroes of the current team are incapable of doing what?... pass.

There’s no reason why we can’t win the next six games. Shouted Jed Wallace through the door hatch of his padded cell at Broadmoor.... They really need to get a press officer.

I have no time for Milliband, Cameron nor Clegg - no agenda here. But a newspaper that openly supported the Nazis, now has the cheek to imply someone else is anti-British? The Mail has dragged all tabloids even lower.

I've heard some deluded claims, and there have been brave words before, but Guy has just made the bravest pluckiest promise of all time...you can only admire his confidence, it's good to have a dream. Guy Whittingham admitted he and his players had let Pompey fans down and vowed: It will never happen again.

If you offered me a finishing position of 7th, I'd have your arm off. As pointed out above, there are six teams we cannot compete with over 38 games. One or two fans may have to manage their hopes if we slip to somewhere worrying like 10th. Either way we've come a long way from Rochdale in a very short time, mainly thanks to Nige driving us straight through the Championship, and Poch taking us up yet another level. I don't know what the destination is, I'm just enjoying the journey.

Mack is always a laugh - and that gag was a slow burner!... Presumably when he's not on here as his dislecksik alter ego, he's out on Southsea Common with Mero and the toyman trying to explain to the 249,997 who ARE taken in by the hype, why things need to change. I did expect them to beat a quite poor York, it makes you wonder how bad things can get. While they are struggling, there is no way they can force their way into that bottom two. But I'm happy to admit I'm wrong if they do manage that!

don't be so smug, they are on the up! Last saturday was rock bottom - this week they got beaten by someone I've heard of. The swing in league places is approx 130 now.

Pack the Pork - isn't that a party game favoured by Uncle Avram? It would also explain the issues with fatty pipes.

oh yes Mero, I remember you leading that huge protest against him pumping money into the squad. You and a bloke with a handful of Barbie seconds stood firm and managed to get the whole ground to boo the players he brought in. And I'll never forget that protest where you all stood outside at kick off time and chanted for him to leave. A great sporting moment that paved the way for community ownership.

I miss all the criminals, and the prossie-bothering managers. And Ho and his funny old ideas, and the underwater casinos with Saab dealerships and a seabed-based Mr Clive factory outlet. Oh well, that was a golden era of comedy, and we were lucky enough to be there.

The Russian former owner of Pompey was the primary mover in a ‘colossus fraud’ worth over £400m which forced the bank he controlled to be nationalised, a court has heard. Vladimir Antonov, 37, and his Lithuanian business partner Raimondas Baranauskas, 55, are fighting extradition to Lithuania where they are suspected of stripping 470 million euro (£396m) and 10 million US dollars worth (£6m) of assets and funds from Snoras Bank. I seem to recall that despite this reputation, he was welcomed with open arms by pompey directors and fans alike... Yet it took a Nutjob ten seconds on Google to discover the way that he did business. pompey presented him as a prospective owner, he was then given a clean bill of health by football authorities, and this stolen money was used to strengthen the pompey squad. I guess that explains why so many of their fans feel so bad about results they gained while using this stolen cash, even though they weren't to know what he was like. I remember I was as staggered as everyone else when a man who is involved with professional hitmen turned out to be a little bit criminally-minded. If he looks like he's involved in organised crime, if his father has been shot, if people around him are involved in professional hits, if one of his business associates has been gunned down, if he has his own page on a mafia website and the FSA say they don't want him in the UK as he is involved in mass fraud and money-laundering, then you have to wonder how dim you would have to be to welcome him into your club. Presumably someone else's fault.

it's very simple - the visiting players raise their game because it is their cup final - the pinnacle of their careers. The home players backed by fanatical support that they have never experienced anywhere else, have turned Fatpipes into a fortress. This world-leading backing has spilled over into pressure, thus making the home side the underdogs in someone else's imaginary cup final cliche - but on the plus side, it gives them additional plucky and battling status. Meanwhile the referee who will have recently been officiating Championship games etc, fresh from reading his inbox full of anti-pompey emails from his bosses, will be overawed by the occasion. He will find the cauldron of hate atmosphere of a League Two basement battle similar to an Istanbul derby, and way too big to cope with. As a result he will give decisions to the team with hardly any support in the arena. So any defeat is clearly the fault of other people. Team selection, recruitment, coaching, and an obvious lack of squad fitness have no bearing on the league table.

That’s why Sports Direct want to get behind our shop – they see this as a massive deal for a massive club. Perhaps one day someone at the club will recognise that it's over. Like concentration camps and rationing, they were big in the 1940s. They are now in the bottom tier, on merit. I fear it will take a home defeat by some team we've never heard of to make them realise that they are not massive. Repeating the claim just make them look silly, and fuels this little bonfire.

surprise, surprise, Robinson controls the future of pompey. He waves cash, they have to dance, and approve any plans he submits. That's the debt-free pompey owned by the fans. Massive. And if you sat on Terry's handcarved playschool chairs to eat off the famous £500K table that is from the Mary Rose and rescued by Prince Charles in person, they're so short you'd have your chin on the placemat. Who ordered the chairs, Snow White?

I can only imagine the furniture expert was overawed by the quality of the items, or the passion of the people stood about watching. Presumably the Premier League sent out emails to all the antiques experts telling them to undervalue them. I find it very difficult to believe that those chairs that were off the Victory/Warrior/Gosport Ferry have been either bigged up as something they aren't, or that they have been overvalued in the past by people close to the club. Did any of their experts manage to carbon date Kanu within a decade or two?

I would be amused if that were true, but with all due respect to the informant, I have yet to meet a skate who has any grasp of finance, business - and in many cases, reality. So I think I'll await the official accounts which I'm sure will be filed on time, and with an air of transparency.

is that the Salisbury City who were hammered by the football authorities for a debt that must have been about 1/1000th of the pompey debts? Let's not forget that pompey were done a huge favour by the FL when they wrote off their most recent points penalty into the last relegation. By all the regulations they should be bottom of the league on minus 1 at the moment. Whereas they are in fact riding high, on the brink of play-off glory. Yes, the future in bright. Really. Any other clubs considering fan ownership must be going back to the drawing board.

Where do you start? No, I can't, it's too cruel. Apart from us jealous few, football has moved on and forgotten about them. Ouch.

what an interesting version of events that is in the BBC press release promoting Antiques Roadshow but dressed up as a news story. They seem to have glossed over the whole builder who was financially-crippled by money-laundering liars and child-maimers, retains expensive furniture as security to try and get back some of the thousands of pounds he is owed aspect of the story. But it's always amusing to see another portsmyth sink into The Solent! Victory, Warrior, The Ark? They were off some old boat.

someone's getting confused about set pieces and open play. Sure, we haven't scored one this season to rival Brazil in Mexico 1970. Yet. But I believe that even Barcelona count goals they have scored after free-kicks, corners and throw-ins. In fact anything post-kickoff seems to be taken into account.