rallyboy

Impressed. He has been a bit bonkers at times but he is our nutter and he wants success for Saints. There was even a hint in there that he accepts he was wrong re the media, that isn't the cartoon dictator character that some have tried to create. The bottom line for me is that he made a promise to his friend before he died, I would be astonished if he didn't carry that through. He may break a few eggs getting us there but I look forward to seeing Nicola realise the dream that Markus had. Which is the polite but less interesting version of what Mr Saints so clearly stated!

I forgot, they also had the charity box off the counter. They haven't stolen it, they're just helping the charity by 'looking after it'....

you are right Mack, and we got rid of both players as a result of that disgraceful offence. (sometime afterwards!...) Dyer did save his soul though, you may have been there when he did it in front of the Fratton End, he was the thieving scummer who ripped the illegal FA Cup from your club's six-fingered grasp, as I recall.

I'm not sure that they have actually stolen the money off Primus yet, I suspect they are still 'borrowing' it, but he's a decent bloke and the charity is naive to allow PFC to retain any cash for any length of time as history suggests that they cannot be trusted. Then again I thought stealing the money from dying kids should have been enough for most people to be horrified but they got off lightly with that one. Shafted creditors wait, charities hold their breath, Kitson gets his wages - it's business as usual at Fratton Park.

it's more like they've parked a Ferrari outside the Little Chef, eaten without paying, then robbed the staff of their minimum wage.

I think Gemmel refers to the mass scramble to claim property, alter ownerships and claim debts AFTER the winding up order was lodged, we all suggested that it was illegal at the time but the court seemed to let it go. just had a flick through those accounts, what a boring document, presumably they hope creditors doze off before stumbling across any little gems. I think we may be able to bury the myth that the US tour was financed by sponsorship - £200K in 1st team travel and hotels from end of Feb to end of Aug?...perhaps the US trip was a holiday paid for by season ticket money/ And either I'm way out of my depth (!) or there is a serious typing error/mistake on dates re the income - a period of time that equates to minus one day?...has AA now tried to actually turn back the clock to adjust things or is that an odd way of recording some figures?

so basically they are failing to meet payments when they fall due - isn't that known as trading insolvently? A clear breach of league rules. And if they can't afford the rent for their offices, what hope has the taxman got of collecting current monies let alone the pittance due on the cva - the agreed cva being the only reason they have been allowed to enter the league this season. Are you watching football league? You have been conned, just like the Prem was, just like the courts were, just like the charities were - they are still doing just what they likey. It can't be true about the Primus charity money can it? Even with my history of bitter comedic assaults on all things blue and to the east I would still put that down to paper gossip, unless someone has facts - then it would be open season once again....

a talented player who tries when he fancies - that attitude's no good to us, good luck to him. We'll hear about his great moments, less so of the games where he hides. Next.

Oar, they might find all the results go against them today and promotion creeps a little bit further away, and the possibility of liquidation creeps a little bit closer....

investigation into 'unreasonable charges for services' - That's half their playing squad and former managers facing jail sentences then. I think we predicted a revised cva a couple of months back, once again the idiots who voted for it deserve to be shafted. If it's revised down that must be the point where the FL step in - they approved that cva and said it was workable even though it looked like a work of fantasy, can they admit they were wrong/misled or will they just let the insolvent trading continue? They have to draw a line in the sand or the whole sport is in a handcart and heading somewhere warm. Any proposal of a reduction in terms to creditors would make it pointless for them to support the cva - and now they have sailed away from the shrewd safe haven of administration, AA's little boat would be in very choppy waters.

I fear that the award of the world cup to Russia must finally end the harbourdome project. I had so much looked forward to sitting in the Maradona stand watching England's Jamie Ashdown lift the world cup....I guess that dream died yesterday. Could have been worse I suppose, they could have let Fahim spend the first £500M on the development while he waited for the FA funding to come through. Imagine what state they would be in now if senior figures had gambled the whole business and overspent recklessly in pursuit of crazy dreams without guarantees of future income.

if the rest of football noticed this it would be big and damaging news - club steals charity money to pay new players. If a big club stole like this it would be all over the back pages, I guess we'll just have to keep the indignation local, that way it can just be dismissed as rivalry! And they might want a refund for the PR work, it hasn't achieved anything - we can see through the spin, as can a number of the few now. Though they still celebrate when new players are illegally brought in. No spin, no promises, no more talk - just pay the charities back their money.

yes, but they won't accept it. Pull the chain again.

Benjani should be made to pay in full (plus costs that are mounting) - he can afford it - and he should be banned from playing until he has paid up I like that suggestion from the few, anyone who owes football debts is suspended until they are all cleared. So why did they pay someone else's debt when they had plenty of their own to ignore? Sounds like they dived into a dispute between player and agent and have caught a cold. How does that work with the forensic accounting - paying money that wasn't owed?..... And how is AA's damning and detailed investigation going, any sign of the initial report? Those findings he's going to put on the back of an envelope could rock world football to it's foundations....

that Withdean is quite an intimidating place to go, when the wind is in the right direction you can hear their version of a crowd. And bear in mind that if you do intend to invade the pitch when you score, the players will have finished celebrating and kicked off again before you can run across from their version of a stand. It will be nice to visit a club with a better infrastructure and a more modern ground though - and you'll get that treat whoever wins the replay. And Mack me old mucker, if they are 'the Ghay lot' and I keep hearing that we play at 'St Fairies', methinks a few people are trying to suppress something....is there an obsession with 'man-to-man marking' going on down Portsea? Has it all gone a bit Wham and Erasure down Fratton on a matchday?

great films, funny bloke, the king of deadpan delivery. Must have taken forever to film some of those scenes. I hope OJ has an alibi this time.

nice forum, do they have anything like education in Brighton? I guess they now have the Bournemouth factor of a club trying to raise it's profile by embracing any derby and trying to give it history, then again there was a pompey fan only saying last week that they have nothing to fear from them, so they can now prove that - if the part-timers crumble in the replay. Funniest moment of the weekend for me was the injury time penalty save that capped Brighton's spotkick week and clogged their fixtures up a bit.

West Ham at home I would like to see a prossie-bothering grave digger have the smug smile wiped off his pervy face. Walking on our pitch doing feeble celebrations with his illegal team.....I want him back here for vengeance. Or Arsenal away.

I'm not sure that the systematic sexual, physical and mental abuse case you refer to was done as an art installation, so criticising it on creative grounds would be wrong. Why couldn't he just do some watercolours of thatched stuff and bowls of fruit?

that is a funny skate report, definitely written for 'local people'. I would suggest that any of their fans who know what a balance sheet is should be fearing dropping beneath the pair of us and Bournemouth within two years - rather than smugly cheering themselves up with fantasy game reports, they might want to check out the parking in Aldershot. And Gemmel me old mucker - you must have it wrong because I had skates telling me only last week that the alleged criminality by senior officers of the club on club business in the name of the club, had nothing to do with....the club... They need to refer to the bloodbath that was Luton v the FL.

Markus wanted us to win but to play the game with style - he would have been horrified at the state of Brighton. Time wasting from the kick off, surrounding the ref over little decisions - they epitomised everything from the dark side of the South American/Italian game from the last thirty years. A nasty side who came for a point. Nice new ground, pity about their tactics - I thought Poyet had done a good job until I witnessed how he's done it. How often do you see a player warned about time wasting as he is subbed yet he continues until he gets booked? And as for the story of two penalties, the linesman gives one and ignores the other. Thankfully like Bournemouth they aren't our local rivals, Bognor must despise them with a vengeance.

Fahim seems to want clarification that his shares are worth the same as shares in Southampton Leisure Holdings? He is dim - or about to pull some significant piece of paper out of his pocket that proves some bizarre cash claim approved by Storrie.... I go for the former.

you can't knock Dyer, he's a legend. Ended the illegal Pompey FA Cup adventure in front of the Fratton End, then told them to be quiet about the fact that he'd stolen from them! All past sins forgiven.

so with the sale of Blackburn the going rate for an average Prem club is now £23M, plus the £20M debt to service. PFC looks VERY expensive once again.

a good point there about the 'unusual activity' going back years, it wasn't a problem when 250,000 of the bestest were out there celebrating... the Prem may have failed to prevent dodgy ownership change but the club was trading insolvently at that point so it saved the club from serious damage. The main problem with the few moaning about the Prem shafting the club was the fact that the authorities were clearly misled in january with false accounts allowing new players in that they couldn't afford, strengthening the team for the cup win at St Marys and the resultant cup run - both of which the few lapped up, pretending even now that it wasn't all illegal. You can't have your 4-1 and moan about the authorities who allowed O'Hara etc etc to sign. Yes the prem failed the club on ownership, but supported it through extreme leniency and advanced monies. And the FA allowed the club to continue in the competition, thus allowing pfc to technically qualify for Europe, a hilarious situation that looks like it will cost £500K of vital income. Without the help of the nasty Prem there would be no pfc now.