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Not to downplay Mr Hall's fine body of work that takes our research to the next stage, but.... Saints forum members list the criminality in detail = jealous Nutjob scummahs spinning ridiculous conspiracy theories. pompey fan lists the same criminality in detail as part of a PR campaign for the Trust = media-savvy hero and research guru pioneer, heralded as the new messiah by the few.

well that's the last we've seen of Chinny then! Bye old friend, sorry it didn't work out for you, leave the keys to the ground, we'll post you the £1.6M.... Unless of course a previously unseen and brand new consortium mysteriously steps from the shadows next week... No links to any other potential owners past nor present, fronted by some imaginary Arab/Russian - probably with Andronikou as an advisor, and a figure of £17M mentioned somewhere! Surely Birch has no legal interest in the league's stance or tests? Who offers the best deal for creditors - A or B? What happens after he's put them forward as the best option is their problem. Should they be unable to complete for whatever reason then he starts the process again. The Trust then has to show that it has business plans to satisfy PKF, and then the league. That's two BIG hurdles! If they clear them and take control then we are definitely in for some laughs, pausing first to congratulate them on following in the footsteps of the likes of Exeter City. Either way, you show me a loan shark who has ever walked away quietly from £17M, and I'll explain to my ruddy-cheeked boss how my total football ideas on a strict budget will get a team of kids promoted from the championship.

we are guesstimating as always, but I would reckon they have less time than that. Hasn't PFK only had something like £4/500k already? If so they are still due a million+ of the £3M - and the banked money was the only reason they are continuing, surely if they can't physically see their fee money they'll shut shop. Let's work the same way the Trust has using a back-of-the-envelope system that estimates in four months they'll average 11,000 gates and generate approx £1.2-£1.4M. With little further income and all other costs to cover, that COULD leave them £100k a month down via the players + £300K for Trev. And let's remember that not a penny of debt has been addressed yet, this is just using up the money needed for debt repayments, to stand still. So in essence, the Trust's capital to run the club next season, could be gone by this Christmas. I reckon Birchy has less than four months money left. He might even support that theory by squeezing the squad numbers at the end of November, or starting to take what his company is owed, just so it's looks less ruthless at the end. pompey fans could be in for a tough Christmas, the sort of one where you sit on Santa's lap and only then notice that he's smoking a cigar, wearing coloured glasses, and introducing Showaddy....waddy. Is that a mobile in Santa's pocket? No, it's 1975, and even the keys to a Rolls Royce aren't that chunky.

I don't see how Bolton could possibly lure UnAppy away from this massive club with the best support in world football. He has an academy that the Taliban would be jealous of, and he's been given free rein to build a plucky squad of loyal battlers who will give their all at the packed fortress. The only thing might be that he has found the job TOO big for him, a little bit like the Wycombe players and all the refs, those little football people who all froze on their big occasions in the limelight. That is probably it, the massive sleepy giant club with fantastic investment potential is actually TOO massive for the best young manager in the British game. The next problem could be little Bolton trying to nick all of pompey's best players - so it's best that they try and tie them up to lengthy contracts - six weeks, or maybe two month deals. Appy departing would be a bit of a setback for that immediate return to the championship from the rubbish League One that was banded about. But if the manager can't cope with the pressure of the biggest club job outside London then he should move on now before they start having really poor results and getting booed by a partially-packed, fat-riddled park. So is Appy a hero or a villain at the moment? I never really got to grips with the simpleton scale we were using after Kitson changed status about four times in one afternoon. I'm guessing Appy's a hero for his fantastic effort at working to a strict budget while guiding the club down the divisions and out of cup competitions? One day they might name a suite or a stand after him like they did for other club legends Allan Baley, Jimmy Dickersley and Lefty Primus. I can see it now - the Mitchell Appleshaw Bar.

That is a little gem! - pompey player admits that he and his mates are being paid more than players at rival clubs, but tries to justify it. Contradicting the boss and making him look like a liar won't go down well. Mr Hall seems to be suggesting that pompey's accounts have been riddled with financial irregularities for several years. If proven, that charge leads them straight to non-league football. And that's their problem. The Trust want to tell everyone that Chanrai acted illegally when he was in charge of the business - but I bet they won't want the sentence that accompanies that crime. In much the same way as they distanced themselves from the debt not long ago, they seem to want the club, but not the obligations that accompany it. Any power struggle between the Trust and Portpin is likely to shred the club, and they'll be nothing left to fight over. So it's brave of the Trust to highlight the criminality that's been performed at their football club, they know the defence of 'previous owners' holds no sway. If the football club was run illegally, the club is punished - that is clear, there's NO room for complaint. Though the let-off on the holding company going into admin, and the minimum pending points-penalty since, are clear indications that they have been treated very leniently thus far, so expect no Luton measures for similar offences. Either way the Trust has a problem. Every attack on a former owner's integrity makes further sanctions against the club more likely. Methinks they are heading up a little cul-de-sac of misery - at a pace that a wheezy undertaker would consider to be annoyingly slow.

Kraken is right. Appless has made it quite clear by his incorrect statements over the last few months that he has little understanding of budgets, nor the rules regarding administration. From the press conferences that he holds in some sort of bail hostel, he clearly doesn't understand what the pending points penalty is for, nor does he realise that any wages budget already has £2M a year spent on his heroic players of the past. £9M+ to pay off a plucky team that got you relegated = bargain. His area of expertise is obviously in the transfer market, not forgetting his tactical skills, and his ability to motivate overpaid journeymen players for cup games. Threatening the football authorities about mistreatment and dragging out the ridiculous level-playing field intergrity of the league card just makes him look like an uninformed poor manager, that a poor club cannot afford to sack. He started there as a coach who sounded honest, but his recent claims about low wages and no costs to the club make him look like he fits perfectly with their business model of the last decade. I can't see any new owner retaining him so there is no point in discussing long term finance with him. I too heard that Trev has been sidelined a little, thankfully his company will continue to drain the corpse. Wonder what the figures look like for last night? £55K-£60K income? Police bill was running at 10% Stewarding, electricity, emergency plumbing callout - even without the lowest paid squad in the division claiming their squirrel allowance, I don't see much profit in that one, not enough to pay the administrators' winebill this evening. Luckily the local businesses will have pocketed their £13M.

they shouldn't be too worried about losing tonight, it's a poxy trophy - what did the JPT do for us? Nothing.....apart from a couple of 30K gates, some TV money - oh, and the chance for a record-breaking 50,000+ Saints fans to bury the bitter memories of administration and share a fantastic day out with Markus, a day that acted as a springboard for an astonishing march through two divisions. Yeah, poxy trophy, they are better off out of it, they can concentrate on the league. Perhaps if the ref hadn't been overawed by the massive occasion and the Wycombe players hadn't been inspired by the fortress atmosphere that only the bestest can produce, then there might have been a different outcome. Please don't anyone call this a giant-killing, I see no giant.

Man Utd have debt, why weren't they docked points? was the great claim by the few. Let's have some honesty here, most pompey fans don't have a clue what is going on and don't care. A visit to our own main board shows there is a certain level of ignorance there too, so it may be a general problem. When you find yourself trying to debate a technical point with someone who can't spell Nigel, then perhaps you know the game is up. Most pompey fans don't understand how failing to pay debt is different to servicing it, hence the laughable claims about our situations being the same. When you are up against that sort of argument you know it's pointless trying to explain - but still we try. If Bolton haven't missed any payments then their fragile and risky business model works - well done them. The main difference was the pompey's was doomed to failure from day one - it was the work of a madman. Those fans that said everything was alright last season, do they not now reflect on one of their players earning more than two League One squads put together, as slightly unusual? Even though it was dirty scummahs pointing out the blatantly obvious, were the alarm bells not tinkling a little? I had to explain to an educated and clued-up pompey fan why they had another points penalty due - he thought it was for two seasons in admin! They have been starved of all negative info by the local paper, and as a result they don't understand what's happening. The Trust figures have never stacked up either, and there was resentment that their budget wanted to reduce payments to creditors but increase wages again. There is this feeling that when it comes to paying back money they plead poverty and throw themselves on the mercy of the court. ...Only to go out the next day and splash out on shiny tat. They need to get back to basics. What is our likely income? What can we afford? That's what we pay - even if we miss out on players. Tis pretty simple. Their problem today is that they are spending next year's working capital. As for Mr Hall's fine work, I just get this feeling that it is only being embraced NOW because many fans want to use it as a stick to beat Chanrai. When criminality was hanging heavy in the air before, they were happily strutting up Wembley Way giving it large - other than Mr Hall, they denied any wrongdoing, and claimed their club was solvent They even stood around cheering in SMS as their heroic plucky players spent the next few years income, and consigned the club to poverty. Nutjobs have been trying to explain how the figures don't stack up but it's like talking to a brick wall, until Mr Hall's blog - and then some are still denying it. You can take Avram to an industrial estate but you can't make him....buy a commercial vehicle.

developments today? We learned that the Saints academy produced Bale, Walcott and the Ox - while the pompey academy produced a terrorist extremist who launched a grenade assault on a Jewish shop in Paris. Making him I guess, the most dangerous attacking player to emerge from the UK's bestest academy. We also saw rare old footage of a pompey fan talking sense, he looked lonely as everyone else was too busy celebrating or ignoring reality, and he ended up having to cut his own hair with his nan's bacon scissors. He then put together a press release for the Trust explaining how many offences the club has committed - some clown from SOS Fatpipe took this confession as proof that they are innocent and the league should apologise. I've also had pompey fans giving me stick on email, which is as ironic as the homeless laughing at your choice of living room curtains. We have had that harrowing image of Westwood wiped from our minds by a shot of his slightly hotter sister, even though she is squatting in the bathroom of a Premier Inn. And Birch has pocketed £9K.

so that explains the one pompey fan not celebrating when their illegally-assembled team and corruptly-run club came to SMS for the cup game - he knew the truth and no one else would listen.... Nice to have some support for Nutjob conspiracy theories but we have been banging on about most of that for years while they've ignored it and carried on regardless. They have played ONE game on a level playing field in the last decade. ONE! They fielded a team against Plymouth that they could afford, and then went on another spending spree. So I don't see a reformed character trying to leave all the cheating behind. While Mr Hall has done a fine job and I applaud his research, you have to think it is three years too late, that it's only published for one reason - and we didn't hear a peep out of them when things were okay on the pitch. It amounts to denying any wrongdoing and then admitting guilt after it's been proven, just to get a lesser sentence - I note that senior figures whose conduct could lead to club sanctions are deemed entirely innocent in his investigation. Yeah right. But maybe I'm being a little harsh, I'm sure he's been busy exposing the blatant criminality for the last three years, and not just this week, when it suits a pro-Trust/anti-Chanrai agenda. So IMO it is basically a press release for the Trust that throws some interesting light on the criminal offences of portmouth fc. If FIFA and the FL were serious about corruption and could see evidence to support this blog, they would shut the club down this morning. They have been tipped off enough times in the past and done nothing, or perhaps were just too afraid to tackle organised crime. Nothing has changed - other than a pompey fan admitting that the club has been cheating. I guess that is progress.

I would suggest that their current wagebill is only TECHNICALLY less than the 65%. Don't they have about £2M of deferred WAGES to pay this season in addition to their slightly inflated wagebill? But those wages will be dressed up in the accounts as 'football creditors'. In fact they could even suggest that their current wagebill is very low but they do pay quite a lot of short term contracts to non-fulltime individuals, some of which I'm sure are not even wages, but Image Rights. The accountancy game has great ways of avoiding rules such as the 65% one - as with previous scams, pompey will be pioneers in this. And the remaining £8M PP doesn't all come into this year's figures - and if it did, it's wiped out by the Hero Paymentsso in reality it makes no difference to the %. Their real wagebill for the next four years will be £2M higher than the cost of their squad - hence UnAppy's reduced budget in the summer, when he was the only person in Europe who hadn't twigged that there was money still to pay and it would come out of his little 'warchest'.

Half a pint of Rohypnol shandy and he's anyone's - he's gonna be in trouble if an aroused Avram wanders by. Though, in the dirty old prossie-botherer's defence, if you go around dressed as pretty as that in skimpy hotpants, you are asking for it.* At least he can ring his bell and have both hands free now. *Not really, even Avram at his most inflamed would think twice about unleashing little Avram on a mission that ugly. On this showing, Westwood must've been the only kid who went to Top of the Pops and didn't get molested - probably made it right through Catholic choir school, a children's home, the scouts, and never even got a Valentine's card.

pompey fans giving us financial advice? Don't know where to start, too many gags fighting to get out all at once, comedy overload....

here we go - the Portsea branch of the Hans Christian Anderson myth factory has resumed production after a short layoff. The scummahs owe £30M to a loan shark. They can't afford to finish their training ground. They owe the taxman millions. They are just like us.... You should never let the truth get in the way of a good Portsea pub myth - it amuses the hard-of-thinking. If it wasn't for the fact that I always leave the half-empty SMS (owned by the council) after 75mins because I'm hoarse from booing my own team, along with all the asylum-seeking free ticket holders, I'd have a word with them. As for Ho weighing in, that's like UnAppy laughing at your eyebrows, or Cotterill asking if you saw a different game - Ho's posts on here left him with no credibility whatsoever. The deluded toymonger's fantasy claims about Tesco, billionaire owners, and the transfer market, were the most unfortunate scribblings to spill into print since a ten-year-old girl penned the sentence, dear Jim, please could you fix it for me to meet Gary Glitter.... As for the storries now being made up, that sets us up for another couple of frustrating years trying to educate the incredibly thick. That loan is small, the other one is far away etc... Let me know when their Saints thread matches this one - in both quality and quantity.

Pity those questions weren't asked when things were going well. Wow, what a bombshell today- the first admission of guilt!!! It’s horrible, morally it isn’t right, I know that. The situation is difficult but I feel like I have been doing that every single week since the season started. - UnAppy. He's only talking about treating players badly, but it's a start. The few are taking his rather old school Spartan attitude to player fitness as proof that they are not cheating by outbidding bigger clubs. They still confuse quantity with quality - it's not the numbers that annoys others, it's the actual class of players you're getting! And I forgot that they got away with the holding company going into admin - so many let-offs, so much criminality swept under the carpet, and still they blame everyone else. What happens next? Portpin are declined a FaPP test pass, a new mysterious consortium emerges from the shadows with exactly the same offer - probably called Pinport or Portpin2012, the people behind it will be unknown businessmen with no connection to Chanrai whatsoever. Sort of. He's going nowhere.

so the fans won a cash prize by naively promoting a utility company's social media campaign... And after much debate about it not being used to pay off debts, rather than using it to do something useful, the club has indeed trousered it. Nice. Which means that the bulk of the bestest fans' cash prize is likely to be pocketed next week by Mr Chanrai. It's not going to clear much of his debt, but it's a start. Tweet an advert, win Chinny some cash. Well done everyone, good effort, not a waste of time at all.

A burglar?? The theft of £200M wasn't a petty burglary, it was a calculated and ruthless armed raid in which bystanders, taxpayers, and kids in wheelchairs were gunned down. And as usual this particular bunch of criminals and their accomplices won't accept ANY blame. No doubt it's the fault of the police for failing to stop them, and the people who made the sawn-off shotguns. As for the outbidding of teams a division higher who are not in admin - it's become a disease. The only way I can see it stopping is when the PPs are actually gone. They are just spending tomorrow's money today, and hoping the football creditors just fade away - tis the road to Admin IV, or is it V? And call me cynical but I don't believe the club's claim that they are not paying much. Mainly because they have been proved to have lied on every previous occasion on the subject. The managers and directors change but the policy continues. I await the next accounts, then we'll see who is playing for peanuts. Birch might suggest that outbidding other clubs is part of an effort to make the business look more attractive. It hasn't worked. You need to be top of the table to fool people, not in the bottom half with an unsustainable business model. Come on Birch, announce new owners and let them clear out the playing staff - it's Chinny Time!

I'm a little undecided on what could be funnier, Portpin taking control, or the Trust. They both have massive comedic potential. I suspect Chinny COULD offer better prospects for progress on the field as he does have some money, but he will also split the few into even fewer. They will Unpack the Park - which shouldn't take too long. Best deal for Nutjobs is probably the loan shark retaking control and offloading all overpaid players at the end of the first month. That would send a signal out to those who think he isn't serious about getting them out of the division at the first attempt. But he needs the team to generate some money, he needs a level of success, so I fear he'll stick with the plucky squad which is living off squirrels and cycling to away games. And what could become of UnAppy who slagged him off, and the Trust's PR partner The News? Both might find themselves no longer welcome at Fortress Fatpipes under a Portpin regime. Especially as they have appointed a PR company which has cleared up so many points from that post above. Communication is key, and Chinny has obviously embraced open government. The alternative to the return of the former hero must be a messy and drawn out bitter legal wrangle that allows the Trust to take control of a business that will by then have spent a fortune on extended admin. They would also need to cough up for the ground. Looking at it that way, the best deal for the few is in reality, probably the loan shark. If they really love the club they may have to just let it go - to fight for it could be hugely damaging and no one would emerge unscathed. Methinks Chinny has all the aces, the Trust has an out-of-date library card, and Mrs Bun the baker's wife. So Birch has a selection problem - but at £9K a day he can probably sleep on it a few more times before it becomes unbearable.

Great fibs of our time, volume 35. I only carry a hammer in the car for DIY emergencies. Peter Sutcliffe 1979 This US tour isn't costing the club a penny. Cotterill 2011 No, that's just my wallet that you can feel. Jimmy Saville 1978 This squad is worth £38M. Storrie 2009 The whole tour is being paid for by their FA and a local businessman. UnAppy 2012 I tend not to pick up hitchhikers, Rose doesn't approve. Fred West 1980 I will pay the small creditors without delay. Chinny 2010 That John Terry is a nice bloke. Ashley Cole 2012 The charities have been paid, and I am a capable businessman. Lumpitt 2010 and a late entry Buzsaky hasn’t got any financial gain from it, he just wants to play football until January. He would want to be paid hardly anything. UnAppy today

yeah, the insolvent trading and financial irregularities offences do seem to have paled in comparison with the money-laundering and charity thefts. Perhaps the FL would like to address these lesser offences now and levy some suitable penalties - two division relegation? Or are we still waiting the results of the promised but mythical forensic enquiry into how money was moved prior to Admin1? So many offences, so few answers - even fewer sanctions.

I think there is £8M to come, the recent £3M PP in the bank should be gobbled up by running costs and Trev. I reckon that he will only continue in admin as long as he can see his own fees covered by that account. The remaining PP figure isn't even enough to cover the heroic players' future agreements which are approx £8.5M + Kanu. So rather than the Trust spinning this wonderful £11M bonanza awaiting them, the lucky new owner will inherit a shortfall situation, as well as the debt repayments. They will need to sprint to stand still.

T got a strait jacket? He isn't mad enough! - they've had me strapped to a trolley wearing a mask for the last year.... The Silence of the Fish. In conjunction with Deluded Films and Bestest Leisure, The Ho Corporation presents a hilarious fantasy adventure featuring ridiculous claims and boasting, fanciful transfer gossip, the persistent refusal to accept reality, followed by quiet reflection on how silly one looks, and culminates in lengthy but welcome silence. In a toyshop near you from Friday.

Chanrai is trying to sell them a rusting 1986 mot-failing Montego with 300K mileage, for £175,000. Imagine the club being able to generate the best part of £4M a year in spare cash. Ridiculous. Why is Fahim even considering that offer? More likely to see John Terry doing a remake of Ebony and Ivory with Malcolm X.

Let's be frank here - bears do sh!t behind trees, Glitter is a paedo, and Chinny is going nowhere without that PP money. The ones who might suffer are those businesses that pocket £13M at every home game - those burger vans and pubs could be heading for a slight cashflow issue. It's as predictable as a plucky News press release - The Chinster will retake control, and their already paltry fanbase will split like a Horton Heath prossie. I can see them having home gates of 6K and less before Christmas, and the sensible ones will be the passionate 246,000 bestest who stay away and refuse to tuck any more cash into criminals' Y-fronts. Yes, that admirable boycott will be approx ten years too late, and as hollow a gesture as Lampitt presenting a charity cheque, or Avram taking service station flowers home, but...... IMO the idiots will be the 6K who continue to fund criminals. So a free bit of advice offered in good spirit to fellow football fans - the only way you hurt a loan shark/arms dealer/organised crime syndicate is in the pocket - they care about nothing el$e. Starve the feckers out of your club, even if it means liquidation. Slightly too late I know but there is a lot to be said for death before dishonour. The war of words has started, now back it up - whoever the club is, I say power to the fanbase! However small, annoying, deluded and pikey it may be. We are right beside you brothers and sisters! Well not that close obviously as you fricking stink, but we'll be there in spirit if you chase the criminals out and return with a clean and legally-run phoenix club that competes on a level playing field.

this is the worrying bit...some of my lengthier rants take an hour to put together. Some pages can take twenty minutes to read... Add up the hours and I have lost literally months of my life in here. And I say in here as the main board is far less civilised, and the last time I actually commented on something Saints-related I was politely asked what I was doing outside the lounge. I find that the main board has less quality humour and more saint-on-saint vitriol, whereas this thread is a cosy but downmarket gentleman's club, and an all things pompey news portal and research centre. Nice armchairs, not much of a dress code, 24/7 access to world news on money-laundering and arms dealing, all supplied by a better class of internet timewaster. So this is a safe place, you can pop in and have a laugh with friends and mock the worse off - it's Cheers with an edge. But you have to know the demons within and control them, quality over quantity isn't just a mad Lampitt idea, it's a coping mechanism for addiction to skate-bashing. Avram doesn't go to Horton Heath, Peter Sutcliffe doesn't pick up hitchhikers, Rallyboy doesn't pay his fiver. He needs to retain some of his life in the real world, and restricting himself to three posts does that. And I've started talking about him in the 3rd person, which is worrying, he has taken on his own identity, he is a nutjob within a nutjob. Roll on the PTS social event - I look forward to putting faces to names. And so does he. The 2,000 pages party? Or I quite fancy 1885 as a page number to celebrate. The 1885 League of Nutjobs....the book that pompey's first goalkeeper refused to write, he was too busy looking for fairies on his compost heap.