rallyboy

without us seeing the precise detail of the most recent takeover it would be standard for the new owners to have taken responsibility for ALL aspects of the business, ie any due income, and any due debt. To think that Chanrai would have made a special effort to retain responsibility for a certain portion of the debt just stretches reality. The club owed the small creditors, so the present owners of the club now owe the small creditors. In the same way, just because Storrie ordered certain items or agreed contracts doesn't mean he owes it not the football club. The club stole the charity money, the club shafted the businesses, the owners bought that responsibility via the CVA they agreed to honour. Just pay up pompey. And anyone who continues to defend the current regime's lack of activity when it comes to debt clearance by passing blame or saying, yes we don't know the details of the latest change of hands..... Well I would wager Ben Haim's wagepacket on the Russians being legally responsible for all debt, and if they aren't and £120K is outstanding from Chanrai, they could be local heroes by paying it off themselves from their HUGE fortune, and ripping into those that haven't. Simple. It seems they haven't done that, so I reckon the circus is still in town - same old show, just different clowns. Roll up, roll up! - Lampitt and Cotterill dancing like little monkey boys on strings, and the few lapping up every spun word as gospel. One little set of figures they can't spin - the league table.

Any new mystery investors coming in from Libya?.... Not sure they need to spend anything as Cotterill points out after every game that they were either - a. robbed by the ref. b. the better side. No, they are doing fine with that squad - and how depleted can it get by December? Rather than wasting time on strengthening I presume Lampitt is concentrating all of his efforts on trying to make sense of that hugely complicated and confusing paying back a charity scenario. No funds for small creditors but here's another new striker!....the madness and criminality continues.

we are developing the technical skills to play champagne football - and the wisdom to know when not to. Some people were jumping up and down near the end demanding we charge forward. We were winning, we had the ball, they couldn't get it off us - job done. Good three points against a strong side who will scare a few this season. We are more comfortable against sides who try and outplay us, mainly because we haven't met anyone who can yet! Good use of subs, slightly risky but its along season and we have a strong squad for that purpose. 10/10 Nige. And well done to Seabourne, he is stepping up to the plate. D'Urso is quite poor. Did I see him wrongly over rule a linesman's correct decision from his vantage point half a mile away? His use of cards is somewhat erratic as well, nice he's got the hang of counting them though.

get Theo to come round and read his autobiography to you.

all the debts were proven to AA and he listed them to the court after carefully investigating each and every one of them - so there is nothing to dispute. Unless of course the debt figures he conjured up don't quite match the figures now due for payment? Did he move a decimal point or two perhaps, just to leave the taxman in the cold?...now people are watching to see what is paid and the figures don't quite add up. A meeting with HMRC and the court to explain that would be a meeting worth delaying. (Thats a little conspiracy just to keep Ho amused, better than listening to ludicrous pub myths and publically declaring them as fact.) Lampitt says pompey are a third party to all that has gone before. He is distancing them from the debt, but still happy to be associated with the cup win? The old problem, trying to embrace the glory while ignoring the crime behind it. Gobbing off about Harry and the arms dealer's achievements but slagging them off after they've left the sinking ship. Tis a confusing and fickle business when a cup is financed by taxpayers and you have to be selective about the bits you want to remember. Unlike accountancy that is quite simple and generally goes like this - Small creditor does agreed work. He bills you. You pay it. By now they must have paid more in management and accountancy fees to ignore this debt than to pay it. But the simple cost of closing the book on this massive PR gaffe that has bankrupted local businesses and damaged the club name even further? Less than a months wages for one player.

so Ho is in protest-denial despite press coverage and facts, yet tries to sell us another pompey pub myth - the club is for sale. Bearing in mind Cortese doesn't even tell his missus if he is interested in signing a player, please tell us Mr Ho, what is your reliable source for this piece of business news? Do tell, we are like Gareth Bale, all ears..... Is it the same cross-eyed, sister-bothering, dentist-dodging pub simpleton that brought us great favoutites like the SS tank commander, the dock strike, scummers don't own their ground, the 2 for 1 unemployed tickets at St Marys, the Lambert to pompey close season transfer perhaps? Endless drivel thought up by the dim, for the dim. No matter what rubbish is peddled over that way as fact, or whoever had protests or didnt, there is only one way to judge who is the top team in Hampshire and you are now on the wrong end of the league table, so just like Avram's favourite leisure centre assistant - take it on the chin. We had six years accepting we were in that position on merit. We deserved to be playing Dagenham etc, the table doesn't lie. It may be different in a month or two, but today it shows that we are the top team in Hampshire. Let the tiresome attendance argument end there.

in the Northam I just go with Lockets, but I did stumble into the upper Kingsland once where the finest bone china and cake stands were a must. I know crisps are banned in the Chapel as they exceed the permitted noise levels.

I see no indication that the current poor pompey attendances are due to a boycott, I have seen no march calling for the Russians to step down. That makes the comparison irrelevant. I suspect they just have a small fanbase, and there is nothing wrong with that - lets dress it up as a quality* over quantity experiment. It is a simple commercial issue - they are now getting squeezed from west and east by progressive modern clubs with good facilities, and the fickle few do like shiny things, so no wonder their heads have been turned. It's over. *Sort of.

thanks for taking points off one of our promotion rivals, nice one.

the drugs and porn reference was about football club owners generally - porn re West Ham, Birmingham - and there are South American teams and no doubt some in europe with all kinds of 'interesting' funding. Though if our financial authorities investigations are to be believed you have your link with organised crime and no doubt drugs, but the jury is still out on that one. And Chanrai is a loan shark - he lends money to those outside of the banking system at whatever rate he fancies. And because the child-maimer only made some of his money from arms dealing, doesn't make it okay. Fred West only spent some of his time torturing and murdering women - generally he was a nice bloke. People just bang on about his negative side!

A breakthrough! We'll take that as a first acknowledgment that the cup was bought with blood money and as well as massive debt, the businessmen involved left a trail of limbless children across foreign lands - all in the name of plucky little bestest pompey. That's progress anyway, unless of course Ho you believe that landmining kids is just pushing the limits of capitalism? I'm sure there are companies out there that we all deal with and if we knew all aspects of their business dealings we would be uncomfortable with some and take action. There is one thing knowing that big banks have funded dodgy businesses, it's another knowing that every penny being put into your football club comes directly from arms dealing, drugs, money-laundering or XXX porn? Being associated with companies is one thing but it's not as blatant as an arms dealer or an international loan shark standing in your director's box waving to the fawning sycophants. There are some 'unusual' club owners out there (Bates, West Ham) but pompey have topped the league for owners that you would like to distance yourself from for several seasons, and are still currently several points clear. Still celebrating the cup but glossing over how it was funded? There's a careful juggling act.

I told you Gosport had gone all red and white! Really poor attendance for a local derby, the ship has been well abandoned. Any news of the missing 240,000 from Southsea Common? It's like Cambodia all over again. Another couple of weeks like this and they will no longer be rivals but an irrelevance - and that will end this thread. Funny how quickly six years goes by.

according to the exhibition in Fareham museum on the rivalry, pompey fans are known as 'Skaters'.... They also seem to gloss over the whole prossie-bothering and sex-offending management, cancer charity theft, child-maiming funders and tax evasion years as well - or is all that for the next exhibition as much if that era is still ongoing and under investigation?

Could be embarrassing??? It is! We were two divisions beneath them not long ago and all was well in the garden of the few. It may be early days but things seem to have turned around somewhat... Stattos out there will tell me how many places behind them we were at the worst point, what has the shift been from behind to in front, presumably when we were locked at the bottom on minus ten - 65 league places? Though Cotterill says they deserved something yesterday - so I guess they will get some points for that when the FL discusses it.

and with the world famous Gus Poyet's amazing diving and time-wasting circus up next! That will be worth a few cards for the frustration alone. I'm confused, who do we dislike the least this week?....I guess a draw and four red cards would suit us best.

tight gits! - if Chambo is worth £12M then Puncheon must be worth about £2M. Do Man City need a door stop or a coat stand? Just offload him, or hope that the ongoing lesson in who is in charge eventually forces a change of attitude. If he does a total U-turn he has a role to play - barring that he'll be training with Joey Barton between tumbleweed in a deserted field.

yeah Gemmel - they paid off the outstanding cancer charity with a full public apology and confirmed that the small creditors had all been paid in full as well. They are now starting the CVA next month at 50p in the £ to clear the debt as quickly as possible, and the Russians have confirmed that Cotterill will have to make do with younger players or frees that will fit into a £8K a week wagecap, as the last thing they want to do is trade insolvently. They also apologised for the misleading financial statements that have been presented to courts over the last two years, just before returning the fa cup that had been illegally obtained through deception and financial irregularity - the fa accepted their apology and scrubbed their name from the records. Lampitt admitted that he was only in there to protect the image of the football authorities and confessed that he felt out of his depth, the team also went on a sponsored and incident-free trip to the States that really helped their preparation for the new season. They beat Real Betis 4-3 in front of a packed Fratton Park before overcoming the mighty Boro on the opening day in front of 1,200 travelling fans, the goals coming from £6K a week Ben Haim and £4K a week and totally uninjured Lawrence. The club also intend to finance the ward at QA that had to be closed when the taxpayer was robbed. Other than that it's been pretty quiet. Oh, and the few pretended they hadn't seen us destroy Leeds on the telly, though several of them look pale and anxious at the thought of the rematch.

I think we'll all remember where we were when we heard. His work goes on, playing the game the right way and managing the business sensibly. He would have been chuffed to see what we did to Leeds - and I'm sure he and Nicola would have chuckled at the deal that Arsenal were forced into. Always remembered.

that business with the coach is crazy, they could have lost half of their fanbase in one crash, thank god no one was hurt. Massive club, sleeping giant, biggest on the south coast, Cotterill doing a fantastic job etc.

if any of the subs do decide to have a blast through Sweet Lamb or Kielder I suggest they could do with FIA-approved seats and six point harnesses. If however they want to be footballers, they should just sit quietly on whatever they are given and await their chance. Very good point about the yellow lines though, personally I found it difficult to celebrate any of our goals at the weekend as I was too concerned about - a. the genre and tempo of songs being sung and how they would be judged by an audience that didn't attend b. the guttering on the roof of the bike sheds. sort it out Nicola, we are a laughing stock!

watching on Saturday it must be obvious to him that he could be a major star in this league and with the squad we have assembled he would shine. I wish him well, especially as the deal sounds good for us, but it doesn't seem a shrewd career move. He may prove us wrong and push his way straight into the first team, but I think he's more likely to sit on a bench while his old mates rip up the championship. And Cortese's firm stance against big clubs window-shopping and the performance against Leeds has put a few million on the pricetag of the likes of Lallana. No longer are we a pushover for insulting bidders.

nice ground, pity they have built such a crap away dressing room in an effort to gain a tiny advantage. If they really want to annoy other teams why don't they dive about, abuse officials, waste time - or perhaps target the opposition's top scorer with a reckless tackle and send him home on a stretcher? Despite Poyet gobbing off they couldn't match our points gained after the St Marys game, then they paraded feeble little banners at the Withdean and Fonte had a big wee in their party punch. Happy days. Felt sorry for Leeds, fancy getting undone by our hit and hope, 'Dagenham long ball' game. Poyet does look a fool when he says stuff like that, you have to feel sorry for the bloke in the stand who had paid to enjoy the new stadium and ended up sat next to a bloke in a tracksuit spouting rubbish.

the thicko from Stockport twice announced that pompey the sleeping giant is the biggest club on the south coast. Presumably he doesn't have a telly. Or access to attendance figures. Nor a league table. Or a grasp of geography. Today is day one of the next 27 years, and more. Nice.

yeah it'll be quite scary playing in front of such a big crowd. When you've taken 50,000 to Wembley, then you can make out your support is big and loud. Didn't hear a peep for an hour at St Marys last time, expecting it to go quiet early doors in the December game too. One of my skate mates said they are going to ruin our Christmas, I told him that come April we will feck your whole season good and proper. 6 years gone, 36 hours to go.

tell us about the strike Mike - I've never seen dates or facts.