rallyboy

I did both in the last three years to different levels. My favourite is when you are hopping down the stairs and you just brush your heel on a step and the pain goes straight up through the ankle. Good news and bad news - you will play again, but it might be different... I did my left one and I used to be okay with that foot, since then it is like there is no flow through the joint, it's quite rigid, maybe through protecting it. Rather than hitting a shot I tend to swing that leg like a fence post with a lump on the end and hope it goes somewhere (see Puncheon coaching manual on finishing) The last one I did was really weak but there are some excellent supports, the velcro and lace up ones, they are great when you first go back to playing. Main lesson I learned from some physio was about stretching and maintaining strength around it. Meanwhile, sit and watch the telly with your whole foot and ankle in a bowl of cold water, that relieved pressure on mine, cold and hot stimulates the healing as well. Three to four months out depending on damage, if it's worse than that, missing football will be the least of your worries. good luck.

just seen the stuff about protest tomorrow before the Leeds game. As football fans united I can't see they'll achieve anything as there is nothing to protest about. A loan shark took their club as payment for debts incurred by their great adventures that they all lapped up. Protesters won't make him leave or announce plans, he doesn't care what they do. A mass walkout would get his attention but I doubt it would change anything, they have left it too late. The time for protest was when the insanity started, not after it. If we signed Beckham tomorrow on £100K a week there would be huge unrest among 90% of intelligent supporters realising that it was unsustainable, we wouldn't all be running down the road trying to catch a glimpse of a former spice girl, we'd be asking Nicola what he was up to. But maybe that wisdom just comes post-admin.

personally I think we should take any advantage we can against opposition of any quality. If that means Tranmere spend all week working on systems to reduce the effectiveness of a player who won't even be there or are caught out when someone they thought was injured appears, that suits me fine. If that gives them a fright when the team sheet appears even better. And yes we should be good enough, but let's not take anything for granted, let's do everything right in the build up. I'm sure man Utd won't be taken us for granted and just rolling up on the day for a kickabout. The Cortese/Adkins quiet and professional approach is refreshing. It means that when you hear rumours about signings/injuries you can be pretty sure they are made up.

I'm not sure that 'really good administrators' have their actions described as bordering on criminal by judges or get fined for failing to inform creditors of vital information. Yes he has been good for pompey, and with their history of convicted fraudsters, alleged money laundering by arms dealers on the run and ownership by an international loan shark he was made for them. This gig was his destiny. So far he's made it out of the bank into the getaway car, but he still needs to cross the border....

calling all experts - is it standard practice to exit administration but fail to start cva? If not the FL could take a dim view of this and define pompey as still being in an administration state, thus being liable for a points penalty come August, because just like pompey the FL can do whatever they want. AA used admin to protect the club, now he seems to be in a noman's land that doesn't cost the club a penny and continues to delay a return to solvent trading. He took seven years at Swindon, I'm not sure pompey ever intend to start this cva. Has Chanrai moved the first payment back to coincide with a parachute payment? If so it might just demonstrate how little he intends to put into the remains of this company. Most creditors will have to take that on the chin but presumably the taxman will eventually wheel out their legal experts Chuckle and Chucklel to sort it out.

more like Cotterill vows to keep doing the best he can with the hand of cards he carefully selected from the pack and gave himself! while the damage to the finances from wages is funny we really need a couple of players to leave them before the window closes and the remaining games could be interesting. I'm happy to play them in the championship next season or just to take their place. If we fail to go up I would reluctantly accept their relegation as a poor booby prize. But if they were to start next season above us still........well let's not even consider that doomsday scenario....

something for old blokes - Peter Wells - great keeper.

re their quality over quantity plans I'm not sure that I fully agree with their definition of the word quality yet. If they wanted local moves and massive paycuts, half of their team wouldn't be first choice with us or Brighton. Sonko anyone?

Sell Nugent for £500K and save £600K in wages, also pay someone £500K to take Utaka - it's cheaper in the long run. So much deadwood for such a small squad... And how poor must a Man Utd loanee be if Sir Alex doesn't send him to Peterborough? Prem wages, hardly played - off to Fratton it is! Do they want to buy my daughter's KA, 100K miles, 22 careful owners - £75,000?

I have little sympathy for Cotterill as the job he has today was clearly defined the day he accepted it. If he believed false promises from owners with a history of failing to support managers that is his mistake - as is slagging off one of your young players - unacceptable behaviour. He sounds close to implosion. That said, I have to thank them for cheering me up when I came out of St Marys. The wage policy they've adopted is draining money from the club at an alarming rate, and the slide down the table is destroying Chanrai's plan of a speedy payday - I'm not sure that 2011 will be remembered as a great year for the few.

you have to feel for pompey legend Avram - if he pays you enough. He's discovered once again that football is hard and having a semi isn't really enough when push comes to shove... Following the old prossie-botherer's little celebrations on our pitch it was nice that Pardew played a major part in getting him sacked. But you can't take his spirit!

anothersaint rips Ho a new one and officially owns him! I cannot believe that anyone who has posted all of that can be serious - Ho is on a wind-up, a very complex one that he spends hours on, but the stuff on this page will forever be held up as evidence that Ho is having a laugh and has fooled us into thinking he was a blue few member in denial. I knew his street cred was shot to bits but he is just taking the mick, he can't be a delusional fantasist of that level. I'll do him a favour and assume he's just looking for people to bite when he posts nonesense. Come clean Ho, admit it and we'll accept that you fooled us for a while!.....we thought you were a football fan, the jokes on us. or shall we just refer you to page 728 everytime you post?

that traffic back from Brighton must have been horrendous! Thank goodness he's returned to explain why his local club for local people isn't in fact a gathering of convicted crooks, tax-dodging cheats, money launderering charity-abusers and grossly overpaid mediocre players - and they're not supported by sister-bothering carnival folk with no understanding of how the sporting, legal, financial and business worlds operate beyond the dodgy tarmac their home is parked upon. Quiet everyone, let's hear some more wisdom from the contributor whose ITK claims lost him all credibility about 700 pages ago....it might start with an insult to cover the fact that the following argument may well be a whole new version of history.

the article confuses it by mentioning sell on clauses - looks more like Harry gave them an interest-free loan as a Begovic deposit tied to the Kaboul deal, and they sold him and trousered it. So by loaning money and through transfer activity, Spurs did more than any other club to help them try to avoid admin, thus reducing the chances of a full investigation into where the money went. And let's remember how Redknapp supported his old mate by claiming Storrie showed him pompey contracts long after he'd left. Odd, but it all makes sense if you can imagine what they might gain. Ching Ching - a Harry trans£er target from the far east or a sound often heard in motorway services and behind stands?

That's their main problem, they overpay everyone - apart from creditors! The players won't get the same money elsewhere, Hughes has to decide on whether he wants to play football or earn money. Most go for the latter - see S.Wright-Phillips etc. No need for Hughes to do anything, he can just sit there and take his money, then get a move in the summer on lesser wages. No point in us looking at anyone there as we couldn't match their spending, not many outside the Prem top three could - or will. Most clubs are astonished at pompey's generosity and their pioneering work in raising ordinary players' wages. There's Blackpool halfway up the Prem with a massive income, bringing in players like Hammill on presumably about £10K a week - they, Wigan, West Brom, Wolves, none can compete with post-admin pompey on wages. Funnily it's only uncle Avram and his mates offering Bridge £90K a week who are just as bonkers. That's your dream player auction - pompey and West Ham trying to get Pulis off us..... Didn't the FA and FL ever wonder how pompey can outbid just about anyone?

so £16K a week Halford is back then - that's an extra £50K a week with Haim's wages - every week! - to put in context, that's the income from 4,000 x £25 of each fortnightly home attendance, or the amount we paid to buy Chaplow. I know all clubs will push the rules as far as possible and I would want Saints to do that if it were within the spirit of the game BUT I can't remember another club putting in a false appeal against their own admission of guilt, losing it, sending the player back to his own club to serve the extra game where he wasn't wanted, then miraculously re-signing him a week later. If you intend to do that my tip would be don't admit in the press that he deserved the red card prior to appeal - makes you look like a club trying to cheat the system to gain an advantage. And for stattos everywhere, I reckon their home gate income is covering no more than six wages - with football creditors having first shout on the bulk of tv income I'm not sure where the rest of them are getting paid from.....so in cashflow terms it's quite ironic, forget recent history, this is the season when they desperately need a cup run.

Was there a few weeks back, there are some cheap hotels but it's a lottery on quality, Eurostar was good, saves messing about with travel from the airports that pretend to be near Paris - you can get some cheap ES deals if you book well ahead I think. Mind the dog muck, its everywhere!

stop talking sense Gemmell and get back to skate-bothering on the News site! pompey made the decision to abandon youth policy and utilise cheap transfers often from abroad, cheap transfers accompanied by ludicrous wages and lengthy contracts. It meant that massive Prem money didn't go into the club, it just went through it. Not rocket science, but those at the helm weren't building a club, they were lining their own pockets - and little has changed. There was no forward planning down there, and they now find that the future they were ignoring is here.

I thought parachutes were over four years now?....if they've got that wrong can we take any heart from their belief that AA won't be investigating his own behaviour? All the decent questions were ignored. And I'd like to know how they're meeting their day to day running costs - shirt buttons?

the hunt continues for that elusive billionaire who hasn't yet come across the term due diligence. I'm curious about the idea of a fan buyout - free the club of all the vultures for £1 and let the fans decide the future... and what's that in the small print?...take personal responsibility for £50M of liabilities and ongoing legal actions with potential penalties. With reinvestment needed I would say a local fan group needs to find about £100M to turn them around, no doubt Chanrai will lend them some of that and take all of their caravans and pick ups off them as security. As he's proved with pompey, there is nothing a loan shark likes more than someone who can't afford the repayments. The amount that a local business consortium could realistically raise would only be enough to pay one player's wages for a year - the dream of fan ownership is less likely than HMS Victory leading the next defence of the Falklands. Or for £100M you could afford to buy Wigan, Blackpool AND Wolves. Roughly speaking, three Prem teams = the money required to stabilise pompey. as stated a million pages back by anyone with half a brain - Figures don't add up. So there will be no buyer with serious business credentials.

you don't really think they intend to pay a penny towards the cva do you?? March was mentioned, which might explain the next eight weeks being touted as apocalypse time. Without a change of fortune they could be in a relegation battle by then, as well as undeniably insolvent. I'm not sure that the cva will ever leave the starting blocks, in fact if it were a horse it would be shot in the parade ring - which sounds painful.

that's quite an admission Mero - a mate of mine who is a pompey fan has just about given up with football completely, the last few games seem to have been the last straw for a few, of the few. Before you wave the white flag we still have a lot of work to do before we can resume our rightful position (see arrogance/Holloway!) So before Ho reappears spouting his unique version of events, barring a lunatic with cash rolling into town, what would you like to happen next? From the bitter rivals point of view I think most of us just want to see some justice served for the obvious criminality and deception that has surrounded the club and assisted it so much on the pitch. I would think that a demotion to Lg 2 and cancelling of player contracts registered with the league wouldn't be harsh, and the police can then pursue any charges they want to bring against individuals. It would free the club from these crippling £40K a week wages, force a re-think on finances, chase away most vultures and allow the club to start again. Downside? The creditors would suffer, but they voted for getting nothing so that's their problem. Sadly the league won't do that as the club must have signed player contracts that commit them to pay MILLIONS over the next few years, all protected by football creditor rules - pompey continue to dig their own corporate grave, no doubt they will sign someone else on ridiculous terms anyday soon. And that's why sympathy is thin on the ground. Was that 1-0 win over a midtable and bankrupt championship club still worth the £100M it must have cost? Was the illegal acquisition of players for the 4-1 win at St Marys worth sending the club back towards liquidation? 'we beat the scummers!' - yes, and it might yet cost you the whole club. Brighton and Southampton are flourishing, it might be time to admit that the cup wasn't worth it. There are certainly some big gamblers down that way - and like 99% of gamblers, they fail. Having seen Saints on the brink of closure I wouldn't gamble the whole club for anything.

Cotterill sounds mid-breakdown, he's reached the paranoid stage. His common theme is that they seem to be in charge of every game, bossing it, creating chances, looking the more likely, under no pressure.....until the opposition score, normally as a result of a poor refereeing decision. He also seems worried that the transfer policy he embarked on with Lampitt is backfiring. Who'd have thought they might get injuries and suspensions, what bad luck! As he's going a bit bonkers is it too early to feel sorry for him?...... Yep! I think I'll wait until they're relegated before I concern myself with his problems.

life is sweet - this day has an interesting feel to it - a watershed moment perhaps.... As I watched our weakened side destroy a weakened Blackpool I just thought, we could take pompey now. Our squad has strengthened while theirs has got weaker, and ridiculously expensive. As the manager of Newcastle would say, Brighton gave them a proper raping today, Bournemouth would fancy their chances against them - Pompey are starting to do a very good impression of the weakest club on the south coast. It looks like a business in serious trouble, a team in terminal decline, a rudderless ship taking on water - is 8/1/11 the official launch date of Pompey's long awaited slide into the abyss? Let's hope so - justice has been long overdue for a while now.

I know what you mean Phil though I think most Saints fans have been pretty reserved on gobbing off about the finance side, maybe based on a history of uncertainty. We don't know the detail but we do know that Markus and his family built a reputation of integrity through not establishing businesses on debt - it seems that they do things the correct way, I would hope that is the same at St Marys. I'd be very surprised if we discovered a Chanrai style of money-lending 'etc'...! There certainly hasn't been the same level of vulgar 'we're going to be minted and you'll be sick when you see how rich we are' sort of talk we've endured from some clubs which I always think is bizarre. Hanging around in the stand with an ice cream seller squeezed into a pompey shirt that too small for him, a man who awarded himself the title of doctor and was sacked from his only proper job - at what point did they think it might be sensible not to be so arrogant about forthcoming cash from this obvious fraud? That's why the few have a reputation for being simple and gullible, like a dim puppy, the runt of the litter that was rejected and will attach itself to anyone who shows an interest. I don't think there's too much gloating down this end about finance, just quiet confidence that things are in place and if that changes we are in good shape. So when I regularly hear that Saints may be offered for sale I just think that through investment and hard work, Markus and Nicola have turned us from a wreck of a club that a bloke who lives with his mum in Barnet tried to buy, into a well-structured proposition that would attract quality businesses looking to move a stable company forward. When established young players sign long deals, that sends out a clear message on intent from those at the top, the Markus dream is still on track. And boy would he have loved some of the football we've played recently! (cue appalling display against Blackpool!) And on that Ben Haim news - Ouch! That's the CVA properly shafted.