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Amount of debt paid off by the club in 33 months? - not a single penny. Amount of wages paid by the club in the same period? - effing millions. Number of people in football who realise this, outside of this forum? About 10.

by my reckoning it is exactly two years and nine months today since the creditors voted yes to 20p in the £ and saved the club. Much of football and many of the few think that the debt was cleared and they have just been unlucky again. Amount of debt cleared in 33 months? - not a single penny. Number of players through the wagebill this season? - more than fifty. The fact that they are still allowed to compete in league football is a scandal - as is the fact that company law allows them to continue trading as a business.

please can we plough through this page fairly quickly so we don't linger on that top post - Kraken's disturbing fantasy image of the right honourable Minister for Pastries and Pies. It may well make his honourable member stand up in the commons and pass something, but I'll give that particular tugboat a wide berth ta. Call me picky but I prefer my women less-bouncy castle and more swimming pool lilo. And less annoying. That said, if I ever fancy a go on something that looks like the interior of a high-mileage, ex-Hertz Mondeo after the airbags have gone off, accompanied by dirty talk about the PFA, there's only one penny slot that I'll pop my loose change into. But it would have to be the last money box in town - so please fill this page.

Hassan has lost track of the facts - and I note that he is being sponsored by the word finally. if PKF can finally force the sale of Fratton Park and finally relinquish Balram Chainrai's hold on Pompey then the PST will be taking control of a financially-sound club. Do tell me Mr H, where is the money coming from to pay off the old debts, the new debts, the shortfall to football creditors, AND to cover the day-to-day running costs of this financially-sound club? From 16k gates in League Two?

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small finger? When there's a sticky bun up for grabs those dainty little fingers look like a bunch of bananas descending upon it. Also Penny forgot to apologise for getting her facts all mixed up! Maybe later, after dinner... That Echo piece has just reminded me, a while back I mentioned the swing in league positions, I was especially looking forward to the magic 92 number. By my reckoning the lowest we plummeted with the points penalty was 54 places below them. We are now 52 places above. For those that still say they've got away with it without punishment, I say a 106 place swing in our fortunes looks like a pretty good spin-off. Though in an ideal world, a gap of 54 would be a nicer way to officially bury the trauma of the past... Worth repeating - 106 places.

However ordinary, everything has to be dressed up as a little victory. Remember the initial adjournement celebrations? The party has gone a bit flat by the 4th one. Well I see the desperate hunt for anyone who will offer them a training pitch has now been spun into something quite different. he is delighted to have landed the venue ahead of other contenders HMS Collingwood and the University of Portsmouth. Yes, there was quite a competition for that role, they had the pick of top class venues all across the Solent region, the other two will be really miffed that they didn't get 'selected' after pompey made their choice! As for Penny, did you say she was casting the first scone? Seems unlikely that she would throw any cake away. They have now taken the decision to hang onto players rather than get some income. We gave away Surman at a knockdown price to cover running costs, didn't Coventry have a firesale too? Even in administration and with a mass clearout, pompey have chosen to hold onto players instead of taking offers. I suspect creditors might have chosen the cash option. So once again it's not bad luck, and it's not unfortunate timing - if they hit a further cashflow problem now, it is entirely of their own making. Keep the players to gain sporting advantage, and if things get tight, hope that the running costs will be covered by others.

moneypenny carefully selected her venue for accusing the PFA of lying. I wonder if she'll be repeating the accusation outside of the safe haven of parliament? Or perhaps she'll apologise for getting it so wrong in her ruthless attempt at snuggling up to voters? Either way she has upset the PFA and their members, all for some cheap headlines. The Trust could do without friends like her. Overall though, no change - potless dreamers still planning to borrow their way to glory.

Ken is highlighting the fact that mutually acceptable compromise agreements are in place, but a further negotiation would break those agreements, and create new mutually acceptable compromise agreements. This is all new territory for the rules. Also I see no way that about 10 players will all agree to save the club - again. To be shafted once is naive, to be shafted a second time in the same manner would be plain stupid. Is Ben Haim looking to help out? Good luck getting his vote. And do we really think that on liquidation the PFA will allow the Premier League to leave players' agreements unpaid, and give the money to clubs instead? Too many Property Developing Trust supporters assume that the club will only be sold as a football club and not as a bit of land, and they also seem to think that the Trust has a hand of aces to wave in Chinny's face, when in reality they have Master Bun the Baker's son, and a library token from 1980.

The little bit that the media is glossing over - The money needed to pay this debt will be GIVEN to pompey, specifically for this purpose. But some greedy mismanaging thieving inbreds want to keep it for themselves. Unbelievable. F)ck me I'm boring myself now, how many times does this need explaining to the dim of Portsea and beyond? Or is it the shortfall that worries them? £8.5M +Kanu to pay but only £8M to come? Meanwhile we have to suffer the mock indignation of Penny Piglet and weirdy beard. I expect it from those two clowns but for Big Adam to take that stance is a surprise, I thought he had a basic grasp of the situation, from his Tweets it appears that he doesn't. If he really wants to campaign for ALL creditors to have equal rights I fully agree - let's see the Trust cough up £220M to clear all creditors...that would be the fair price to buy the club history. Greedy PFA? You are fricking joking? Yeah, those ba$tard villain players who heroically walked away and allowed the club to survive are now being pressured again, even though the club, ironically, doesn't have to find a penny. The Trust are now doing a very good impression of the last few owners, but with less realistic plans. Living off debt and dodging bills - it's just business as usual.

it ain't rocket science. Parachute Payments are to assist with wages when a club loses Premier League status. pompey still owe players' wages because instead of addressing their debts they spent this FREE £48M rescue fund on carrier bags of shiny stuff from Lidl. So the players are still football creditors. Failure to pay football creditors in full loses you The Golden Share. The players have already saved pompey's skin once by agreeing not to be paid in full. So it's very simple - this new Trust masterplan of hijacking the money earmarked for debt sees them heading directly to non-league, leaving a further and fresh trail of debt in their wake. I see no reason for the PFA or the players to negotiate down again. I see no reason for the Premier League not to direct money straight to football creditors. I don't see the PDT getting their hands on this money, just as they wouldn't expect Chanrai to get his hands on it. They definitely want one rule for The Trust and another for Chinny. As for Penny, if she's going to drag her fat ar$e around the Commons and wave her podgy hand in the air, the least she could do when she gets the chance is address some important issues. Look at me, vote for me, I'm on TV, get me in the paper, bring me another sticky bun! Shamless self-promotion. And Cameron? - don't tell me, 'yes a polo-playing friend of mine supports the old blues, it's a tragedy for the many lovely spectators, I love soccerball at the Fratton Arena, it's marvellous - by the way, I've just shut your dockyard'.

not so much a 0-0 draw, more of a suicide pact where the failure to win did neither team any favours. So that is the longest winless run in their two year history, and for the previous 100+years before that. No doubt a solitary point at the bottom side in League One will be fed into the spin machine and translated overnight into a glorious victory, a battling clean sheet against the odds, or maybe a launch platform for a late promotion challenge. And that's before the plucky 280 fail to realise the game has finished and continue to slur drunkenly watched by bored stewards - incredible support! It's going to take ages to get home if they intend to stop at every station and hang a flag the wrong way round. Either way they can cancel the bus tour of the city.

no nor me, they can't stumble on this badly for much longer, so if I was a betting man I'd have a fiver on a pompey win tonight. Hartlepool are awful, and equally-awful pompey could be roared to glory by the mighty travelling blue army, the faithful who have never given up hope, the envy of world football, the fans who create an atmosphere that makes Boca Juniors v River Plate sound like a library. All 200 of them. Which might not seem many, but if you were in a wheelchair and they all climbed over you, it would seem like quite a lot. In fact it will be such a cauldron of noise there this evening that ITV have missed a trick and gone for the sedate atmosphere of Celtic V Juventus. I can only assume that Hartlepool v pompey is TOO big for ITV to cope with, the same as it is for all the refs, with their special secret emails. So don't count your chickens yet my Nutjob friends, even as they lose this war they will have little skirmishes that go their way, and let's not forget that with court cases to come, what happens on the pitch isn't actually relevant, it's just an amusing side order. I'm off to hang a flag upside down on a deserted station. (And Lazlo, if pompey do win tonight, it was just a guess, this time! )

this will confuse you... Mike Hanc.ck, MP for Portsmouth South. He said: ‘I hope the trust gets the loan. ‘As long as the money is used to protect patient care and planned operations go ahead, then it is good. ‘The trust is carrying so much debt at the moment that money should be used for patient care, and not bailing out the administration there.’ Penny Mordaunt, MP for Portsmouth North, said the trust needs to bring in more income, like others have. So if the council intend to loan money locally perhaps they should look at QA Hospital that is having to beg central government for a loan - this follows on from a cancer ward being closed due to tax cuts. In all of the criminality surrounding pfc, for me this is the worst aspect. pompey made the decision to withold tax and spend it on players, and 99% of fans made the decision to celebrate this act. Shortly after the taxman suffered Shafting 1, cuts were imposed on local NHS services. Though it was just unfortunate timing, you could link the unpaid tax money to the NHS cuts, and of course the ridiculous wages paid to heroes like Liam Lawrence and Dave Kitson. Not the players' fault in any way, it was club policy to ignore tax bills and use the money for wages - but the cuts continue, and still the taxman awaits our money from Shafting I and Shafting II. Meanwhile MPs try to juggle all voters and in doing so they offer full support to a company that has not only traded insolvently and illegally, but has done serious damage to local businesses and services. If my club had ripped off the taxman and spent it on overpaid players I would feel very uncomfortable. Football is only a game, I'd put my family's health before anything else, even if I was a politician. Yes Penny, keep cheering the club on, pretend there is no link, in fact peddle the theory that you can help save the club from the criminals, and that everything that went before was really bad. Apart from the cup win of course, that was okay, it was just the funding of it that was illegal - but gloss over that bit. The spin continues and crimes are swept under the carpet. And that's where we are until Mr Hall's rather selective research turns closer to home and we find out more about the big hitters behind the Trust and their business histories. But that won't happen, because the only local journalist to point at the potless elephant in the room thus far has been shouted down. The Trust is good, every alternative is bad - this is the message that the few are supposed to lap up without question, as they have for the last ten years. I'd like to think that they might question some of the spin, but I expect the majority to stand around and applaud whatever they are told to applaud. Tis the pompey way.

the Trust are in a really strong position now - they have exclusivity, they have all of their funding in place, so this deal should be complete by Wednesday. We'd better book a venue for the Nutjob Thread-Closure event. I could do this Friday but I'm not about Saturday.

Outstanding performances all over the pitch, epitomised by Ward-Prowse's crunching tackle near the end. Well I thought we were great until I read a broadsheet this morning... Our centre backs were awarded 6/10 - the same as Lescott. He looked like a man who had never seen a football before, let alone been allowed to have a go with one. Naughty media bias. As for the penalty claim, I was 40 metres away and I saw it clearly as a penalty, so what is the ref's excuse? Maybe he was just crap like many of them, god bless Howard Webb - the only proper ref I can recall at SMS this season. A great night, and a great day of results, but one swallow doesn't make a summer. Let's see what we do at Newcastle where the stage is now set for Rickie to secore his 100th, against the man who signed him. Get a result there and you have to say we have turned a corner. As for QPR, bring them on. Twitchy in the technical area, Cotterill muttering in his ear - we MUST despatch their side to the Championship and administration - it would be rude not to.

I told you we are being spoilt. Look at the Premier League results and table, look at what happened today in League One - this is officially the greatest day in the history of football!

remember the academy coaching set-up that was the envy of the Premier League? Well here's another deluded claim - this time from coaching legend Tony Adams... We had him on video and our technical guys, who at that stage were probably the best in the Premier League, were drooling. Yes indeed, everything is the best down there, always has been, always will be. You have to feel for poor little Bournemouth who are about to get a footballing lesson from the biggest club south of London. Though geographically, that fixture is merely two gobby old blokes brawling in the car park outside a title fight. If I want advice from someone linked to Arsenal who knows about coaching at the top level and the benefits of first rate analysis then I might ask Wenger, or even Pat Rice. However, if I ever need someone to drive me into a lampost at pace, Tony will be top of my list.

Trust hopes League ruling will convince fans to unite behind bid?? I thought they had united behind it already? That's what we've been told in this brave new era of transparency. The Trust assure everyone that they and their majority shareholding property-developing friends are ready to go, fully funded and just waiting on Trev - now we see a front page plea for more cash. What an odd angle to take when you have all your funding in place.... If I was touched by Nutjobbery I might consider that they've written their business plan on a cullender and are now making it up as they go along.

the maths is very simple!! 250,000 on Southsea Common - fact!.....sort of. 1 bestest passionate loyal plucky skate = 5 normal fans So that was one million on Southsea Common, and when seasonally adjusted and international exchange rates are taken into account, in reality there were £1.5M Fatpipe faithful there. After the 2010 admin that figure was downgraded via 20p in the £ to 300,000 fans. Under the current admin that 300,000 has been whittled down again via 1p in the £. And that's why their hardcore support is now 3,000. Keep up, it ain't rocket science. Next week we will explain how a 10K gate is in fact a packed park making you the biggest club south of London, how a court delay is a glorious victory, and how a policy of persistently paying out twice as much as you earn won't end in tears.

the doors are wide open for the Trust, the FL have given them the green light, Birch has the keys ready for handover, all they have to do now is put their money where their mouth is. So let's see the 'fan buyout' cash on the table, come on, no delays, no more excuses, chop-chop! And not borrowed or leveraged or part of a property-developing deal money - let's see the cash to buy the club to pay off Chanrai and the other creditors, and to cover daily trading. Because call me a cynic and a doubter but.....I'm not sure that they have enough money... On that bombshell!...

you are spoiling us Mr Ambassador with your hilarious plot twists! Newcastle fans get a chuckle when Sunderland lose, poor old Birmingham are in such a state that Villa's woes aren't that special. Liverpool and Everton are still deciding who is top dog, while Arsenal and Spurs take it in turns to underachieve. Utd will get some revenge on City this year but Manchester's rivalry could tip either way.... But come down south and the rivalry is now a fricking landslide! It looks like an electoral map of Liverpool - the future is redder than Avram's gravedigger face went, when his missus said she 'needed a chat'... Our chairman is a bit bonkers and we're struggling in the league after two consecutive promotions Versus staring liquidation in the face, hurtling towards non-league via multiple-relegations, record-breaking losses on the pitch, their fans' property developing scheme has hit the rocks, and only today their grubby pants have been tugged down again in preparation for further assaults. It's not a rivalry anymore, it's an effing massacre! We have been spoiled by this escapade, it's been way too funny, and gone on for ages - it's like the longest Ken Dodd concert in history, that will only end when he actually pegs it. So soak up these golden years my Nutjob friends, other fans have very different rivalries - they have clubs up the road that actually matter.

whoops. HNWIs are now in too deep, some of them must have put so much in that they have to continue, or lose the lot. I hope they like playing poker with a ruthless loan shark. And there was us thinking that Chinny had walked away from his money.... What happens next? The Trust continues to bid money it cannot afford, or steps back and looks to do a deal with the Orville consortium. If Chinny is pulling these strings then he is shoving Robinson out of the box seat and taking his place as the property developing landlord partner - whilst firming up his valuation for the court. Ten Chanrai Things You Should Never Do. 1. Cross him. 2. Borrow money off him. 3. Abuse his brother. 4. Underestimate him. 5. Play poker with him. 6. Get involved with him in a court case. 7. Shake his hand and expect to see your watch again. 8. Think he has your best interests at heart. 9. Be fooled by the scarf. 10. Ask his pet Administrator for an autograph.

I've been, a good weekend, decent circuit, sensible for travel from UK, take a raincoat. My hot tip is don't save money on the tickets or you will end up balanced on a fencepost a mile from the circuit. Pay as much as you can afford to get a decent view. And make sure they don't put mayonaise on your chips, it's just wrong. Once you've ticked off your F1 holiday make sure you go and see some proper exciting motorsport like a rally. RoundyRoundy is okay but get into the woods and witness the most fun that two people can have in a forest without Stan Collymore nearby.

in all fairness Southsea I think Ho did the bulk of the real work and you guys just kindly edited his madness into an easy-to-read record of someone's deluded descent into mental illness and beyond. No wonder the toy business is in such a state. So pompey head next to their current local rivals Bournemouth (Aldershot are on standby, Eastleigh wait in the wings), where they are likely to set a new club record for consecutive defeats, and complete the longest winless run in their two year history. The club is staring liquidation in the face, the players are now the least-plucky to ever pull on the famous shirt with velcro on the name section, and the city stands to lose £13M every other Saturday. They lost £39M last week alone - according to Penny. And yet you Nutjobs still pick on them? Out of order! Surely it's time to put aside all the charity-raping and creditor-shafting antics. Can't we just forget the blatant insolvent trading and the money-laundering attempts at gaining sporting advantage funded by child-maimers and organised crime? Those potless Lithuianian pensioners and limbless kids have got over it, so why can't Nutjobs? Even the terminally-ill kids have gone quiet. Ignore the rivalry, forget the disgusting abuse of Ted, the myths of Nazi money financing our club, and of course that difficult-to-pin-down dock strike. Just look at the league table and try as hard as you can not to be jealous. Because that's all it is - the little green-eyed monster is looking to the east and is jealous of the biggest sleepiest giant in world football.