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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.

that little chap made me laugh out loud! Which is funnily enough exactly what Svetlana the Bulgarian prossie said behind a skip in Horton Heath.

An injury-prone player in his mid-30s has broken down after a run of games? Well you couldn't have predicted that. They are just unlucky. Though Connolly stands alone at the moment. I've not heard him read out the standard press statement about the fans being the bestest he's ever played for.... Sodje said that a two-thirds empty Fatpipes with the crowd singing sarcastically about you, was better than a full Elland Road - so he's not mental. At least he hasn't lost his pace, touch, and dignity - as well as his marbles.

Can't be long before a bored midtable side makes a killing at the bookies with a 3-0 defeat at Fatpipes. (and no Detective Lazlo, I'm not that hands on, keep guessing, or eventually I'll have to tell you on Twitter, if you ever get back on there!)

can we just clarify a few things. When a pompey player is interviewed and mutters inane comments, technically that is not a rallying cry. It's just a bunch of words thrown together to fill a space, and distract from the carnage all around. The fratton faithful are not faithful, look at the empty seats. Ditto being the bestest. The team is not battling, it surrendered weeks ago and is happily living in a quiet PoW camp until the war is over. All this cliched spin was tiresome back when Grant paused between ejaculations to announce that we could never take their spirit etc. It continued to grate during Cotterill's hilariously shambolic era, it was comedy gold under the Appleton-inspired descent, but in the light of the league table it is now just plain embarrassing. The best atmosphere in world football. But I do fear for that day when a game is eventually won... Open topped bus tour, plucky headlines about the heroes who never gave up, the faithful blue army cheering the team to glory, the team that doesn't know when it's beaten etc. Brace yourself and get a sick bag, they cannot lose forever - even though it feels like it already. Because when that day comes, a tsunami of spin will wash away the facts of the last few months.

what's likely to happen first - a win, or a creditor to get paid? My money is on a win - probably against a midtable team that either gets hammered the night before, or is looking to clean up at the bookies. Keep an eye out sometime soon for some comical defending that would even make a Wimbledon goalkeeper blush. This Golden Run cannot go on forever, if you throw enough chimps onto enough football pitches they will eventually write a coaching manual.

four days away up north, thankfully just the five pages to catch up on...god bless the adjournement, I feared a News webchat as well, but I was spared the ordeal of ploughing through 20 pages. The comedy highlight for me was the Trust's legal advisers going into administration, though losing three home games in a week with minimum income should be enough to make anyone titter - and two against relegation rivals! Re a Kanu agreement, IF he has settled, that is news. The other players agreed to a total of £8.5M (?), Kanu still had still to settle on top of that, so football creditors were always due more than the remaining PPs. Any confirmation of hero/villain Kanu's agreement?

This current run of form is a battling display against the odds, one of the sporting stories of the year - the team that doesn't know when it's beaten!... Just a reminder of why you shouldn't be sympathetic (as if we need it), nice to hear pompey fans yesterday having a pop at Stains about playing at a half empty St Fairies in Delhi, where all the home fans leave before the end after booing their own team. Never before have kettles and pots been so confused with each other. Difficult to know where to start with that, it's like the finest comedy buffet ever laid on - help yourselves! Then we have the selective reporting of a disgraceful attack on fans at Walsall, but slightly less coverage for the alleged mass attack on Hartlepool fans in Fratton. Presumably just an editorial decision about space, or adverts. Move along now, no conspiracy here, no agenda, just balanced reporting. Anyway I have pressing matters to deal with in the north for a few days so hopefully nothing too bad happens to them while I'm offline, I'd hate to miss a frenzy and have to catch up 15 pages. (And for the sharp detective Lazlo who can read between the lines like no other - I'm not ironing kit )

That was a shame. Looked like they might get a point for a while there.... And then they didn't. Oh well, It's disappointing, but I think I've got over it already. Yep, I have.