rallyboy

The creditors gave him a big thumbs up (and a few extra fingers), he can do what he wants, idiots. I did say 500 pages back but it's worth repeating - as a businessman, if a random company ripped me off and owed me a few grand, then were forced into court and offered me a feeble 3p in the pound while living it up, I would consider the loss of a a couple of hundred quid as a bargain price for the pleasure of dancing on their filthy corporate graves and watching the crooked directors lose their jobs, cars, expenses and reputations. Sensible businessmen can see right through a dodgy CVA and would not accept such a deal that is so obviously unworkable. On a completely different case - any creditor who voted for the Pompey CVA deserves the shafting they are getting, so they had better not whinge when it goes awry. It was never viable.

could I just point out to anyone who will listen, I was offered this flat first and turned it down*. Mainly because I think the guy upstairs might be noisy and troublesome. I'm now returned to my little seaside bedsit and the neighbours think I'm some sort of hero as a result. *not verified as factual

I can see there being such a time gap between the offences and the potential tax evasion convictions that the FL will bottle it. They were quite happy to string Luton up a tree, crucify Leeds and keep Bournemouth under a ridiculous embargo yet I feel myself drifting into the Nick camp on this one - I reckon there will be convictions for tax evasion while at Pompey, but the club will escape unscathed. They've beaten so many charges already that they look untouchable. Mysteriously so.

not the glamorous appointment I was hoping for but he seems to be an educated man who has done very well thus far so I'm prepared to give him at least twenty minutes before ripping out my season ticket stubs and shouting abuse from beneath a pile of stewards. This whole escapade can be judged in May. Difficult to identify good managers from a CV - Tony Adams, Bryan Robson - two great leaders who learned the game under brilliant managers - whoops. I note that even as he announced the new manager Cortese made sure he reminded Bournemouth that their version of events looks shaky. The spin gives the overlooked Howe some street cred on his own patch, but not much elsewhere.

Hacker will get their fees up near a million by the time they get out - loads of all nighters preparing paperwork for european campaigns, transfer meetings in Greece and the US, detailed forensic accounting, pens for signing autographs, it's all going to stack up bigtime - plus the special bonus from the mystery new owner, whoever that turns out to be.... The only thing controlling the admin fees will be that they have to get it approved by, er, AA. Mmmm. Have they scored a second goal yet? I reckon they could have four by Christmas.

yeah I recall all the skate facts about the bloke who was a tank driver three years before he was born who had bought the club on borrowing, not cleared any debt, didn't own the ground, only wanted a crane contract (?) and was just after a quick buck. Desperate. Presumably the Cortese sinsister plans myth is a spin off from those original works of fiction, along with the legendary dock strike that no one can quite pin down and the shirt under the pitch fairytale that is dragged out whenever a new ground is built anywhere in the world. With Storrie teller on board it has always been a bit Brothers Grimm down there, these days it's just grim.

they also introduced rules on clubs having to file accounts to avoid penalties and embargoes. Pompey have historically steered clear of that whole side of things, and I certainly don't see AA committing all his stunts to paper where people can analyse it. I guess that unlike the high court, the FL weren't impressed with the grubby shoebox of reciepts.

any of you been back to the site of the Dell recently? I went the other week as I was nearby and realised that it was my first time there since the Arsenal game. It was great walking through the archway, down what would have been the Milton terrace and onto the pitch, looking left and right remembering the stands. Worth a trip if you haven't been, and the impression of hundreds of football boots on the concrete around the grassed area is a really clever touch. I enjoyed the experience, it wasn't sad, just nostalgic in a good way, there can't be many housing estates that hold such great memories - go have a walk down memory lane. This is in contrast to the first time I went past the old Goldstone ground and saw Dixons and SofaWorld - there's something vulgar about desecrating a sports ground for cheap toasters and buy now pay in 2014 furnishings.

FL can't be impressed by a CVA that sneaked through the court but has failed on the two key areas before it even gets to them - income and wage reduction. Tis unworkable I tell you! Then again if you were stupid enough to vote for it you deserve to get 4p in the pound less expenses. I think what has really struck a nerve down the road is that we are in talks with a former physio to become our next manager yet he still has a better CV than Cotterill. And if the length of the thread really rankles, stop extending it by posting little rants.

All aboard!! The train crash is back on and AA is getting up some steam!! 'Gone are the days when extraordinary pay packets put this club in financial trouble. 'Nowadays we are looking at a budget of £13-15m this season and around £10m for next season if we retain our Championship status. 'However, in the cases of Kitson and Lawrence, we have had to push the boat out a little. 'Their wages are £19,000s and £20,000s but it is something we are comfortable with. The madness continues. They are still outbidding some Prem clubs like Blackpool, Wolves and Wigan. There has been a very half-hearted attempt at reducing wages, they have maybe six players who are earning Prem figures, the business forecasts are now flawed, the CVA is unworkable, the attempt to return to the Prem on someone else's money continues.... I think Lampitt and the FL has some questions to answer, not a good announcement for AA to make in the build up to a big meeting - by paying these huge amounts it's obvious they intend to launch a promotion bid, this isn't a club stabilising - without the income or new investment it looks a little bit like cheating.

I think it was Leeds. I did the photos, four in a frame, it was presented to her on the programme. City Photographic gave us a frame and the artwork in the corner was done by one of Dave Puckett's brothers.....Julian I think. That must have been one of the earliest mascots before the Junior Saints started doing it regularly, and before big clubs started charging massive amounts. Apart from that, I don't remember it!

they would do better avoiding future transfer windows, it sounds like chaos. How can Lampitt not be capable of completing a simple transfer? And how can he allow third parties to make phantom bids on behalf of the business he's meant to be running? And the one we've been asking for a while - Why is a company in administration that appears to be trading insolvently, looking to increase it's overheads? You knew where you were with Storrie, he might have paid three times the commercial value for players signed under odd circumstances and he made tax 'errors', but at least he grasped the concept of time.

Gemmel, how very polite of you to refer to Storrie's tax 'issues' as errors! You see the best in everyone. Does that plan mean Chanrai will be able to ignore the CVA debt under a toothless agreement post-liquidation, or is the FL likely to impose all manner of conditions to accompany the golden share transfer? I'm not sure that AA's little club will be 'out of their clutches' for a while, nice language to use about a governing body that is historically happy to impose penalties as it makes them up. He needs to stop prodding the beast with a stick.

presumably the mistake on timing saves the league having to address the embargo-breaking issue with regard to this particular player - how this affects the Wilson and Smith deals we have yet to find out. one might suggest that AA is looking a little foolish today. He's attacking the authorities that have the power to cause him great grief. He's admitted that they have signed a player without doing a medical - an idiotic thing to do. He's also ignorant of the rules over loans. He needs to stick to his specialist areas, fooling judges, dancing to Chanrai's clicking fingers, signing autographs, and shafting charities.

it seems that the self-proclaimed owner wants his pound back, plus an ironic 20p in every pound on top. He must love the club to be helping it that much.

hello AA, what's that ,you want to park in the HMRC pay and display for the match?..... No problem, just park in a marked bay and put your £30M in the machine.

ssshhhhhhhh...... as it's so quiet at the moment I can just hear the sound of a CVA remaining unpaid..... Let's get our own little 'issue' sorted, then we'll be back, so don't get liquidated while we're gone! I'd hate to miss it.

I've heard some funny stuff on here but 'Puncheon played well yesterday'?...... Yeah, everyone was saying that as they left the ground....that and the fact that Lambert looked really sharp and that Wilkins is a tactical genius.

good to see the taxman chasing individuals who no fault of their own could owe £1,400. Among those will be some Pompey creditors who have just been robbed by the CVA - I hope the 4p in the pound less expenses is enough to pay off the taxman. And on tax, interesting to see that a football club seems to have been laundering money. Who'd have thought it possible.

frustrating! - ghosts past one of their defenders for fun and the next minute he nearly kills a steward with a shot. In fact the nearest he got to the goal was with a cross. The worst effort was when Lambert gently rolled the ball back to him on a velvet cushion with a handwritten invitation to bury it. He missed the target again but unlike the shot that hit the roof of the stand the other week he kept this one below row T, so I guess he's improving... I don't know why he doesn't practice in the week, it would seem a good idea as football must be his main source of income, for the moment.

I'm in the Northam and today I will refuse to clap anything at all!! Mainly because my arm is in a sling after I dislocated my effing collar bone in the week. I'd like to say it was from punching the air too much at the Swindon game, but it wasn't. So my fellow negative monkeys who upset sensitive and easily distracted players with irrelelvant chants, feel free to say hello to the man with the arm sling! Unless you are 12 and an extra from Football Factory, then don't bother.

since when did we start shopping at Lidl? He would be great for a club under an embargo with no cash, but that's not the South Coast Team, that's the next one along. I'm sure he's a top bloke and he's done a great job creating a siege mentality somewhere that was under siege. But this one is a VERY different job and experience is key. Would be a little underwhelmed by an appiontment that is a step down from Pardew, but as I pointed out in the heat of the sh(tstorm, everything will be judged by the table in May so whoever it is, just get results.

The ban is a little ambitious. A spat with the Sun is unwise. The Sun confirming us as the only club on the south coast is most welcome. The cartoons were funny. The subbuteo is nearly funny. The Sun banging on about it is becoming boring, but then again they are aiming at a very low IQ audience. All publicity is good publicity.....as Gary Glitter, John Leslie and Michael Barrymore used to say.

I think the whole Utaka wage denial was about glossing over the huge percentage of his salary that comes in add ons. To generate the wagebill they had he is likely to be on the basic that Storrie and Redknapp freely discussed, plus at least the same again in image rights or offshore payments, as was and still is the Pompey way - so £80K seems quite likely for a player they rated as a new Diarra/Henry/Eto. Their wagebill must be huge for a Championship club - they would have been better off giving Utaka away with two million pounds to the club who took him in Jan. Or there could have been a 'Redknapp' deal to be done there........ So there are half a dozen players now eating up the budget for the entire squad. Luckily they have a young man who can borrow money against the 'stadium' to buy them. That'll be about four people using Fratton as security now.

so have they 'done' a deal that will fall apart when the FL remind them they have an embargo, or have they worked their way around it? Wouldn't surprise me if they have just ignored it and will claim a misunderstanding/loss of letter etc. Bearing in mind the league is also keeping an eye on their overheads so they don't get themselves into trouble again, the fact that the deal increases their wagebill won't make it look too clever. Signing Kanu after redefining him as a free agent or bringing in low-paid loan players to fill the squad I can accept, but signing two players from the Prem on big wages? Forget the Wilson element, according to the CVA plan that should have been simply a sale to raise money, not a swap deal that increases overheads. Have they now conned the FL as well? If they pull this one off you have to admire their cheek.