rallyboy

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.

Nicola Cortese's pocket guide to man management - or the equally slim volume - Diary of a Season by Alan Pardew?

someone like Phil might be able to assist with his specialist knowledge! - I was talking to a friend who originates from the middle east and he had no idea about football, but he does know about fraud investigation. When I mentioned the name Faraj he said to me that that the word translates as 'solution'. Whether that is in arabic or another dialect I didn't clarify, but does Al Faraj mean 'the solution'? And if so, is it the most subtle con in financial history? Where does the Prem FaPP test dept now stand if it has approved someone through a vigorous examination who presented nothing but a false passport and a photo that no one would verify? Completely incompetent and terminally damaged I would suggest. And where does Mr Chanrai stand if he has been complicit in this deception by financing the con through an imaginary loan, and then the aggressive ownership takeover through the defaulting on the imaginary loan? No money lender does business with someone they can't identify - unless they have assurances that it will be worth their while. If the very existence of Mr Faraj cannot be confirmed then there must be a whole lot of questions for many to answer, and evidence that the football club has been used as a criminal punchbag gathers, meaning we should think soon about whether we should have some sympathy for any of the fans.... No, I reckon not - if they were humble perhaps, but all I hear is gobby denial!

And Chainrai has admitted they will 'consider themselves lucky' if they leave the club without taking a financial hit No sh-t Sherlock! This is the first time he's admitted that a profit from his 'shrewd investment' seems unlikely, is he now looking at accepting the first reasonable offer that limits his losses? That just means making the place look mildly profitable and debt free for a new owner. Oh well, it's good to have a dream.

now he's responsible for the losses Chanrai is sounding like the voice of reason - or is he just sounding like a shrewd money lender? Sounds like he's told Cotterill that he can bring players in, but perhaps he needs to reduce the wagebill first.... Send the ridiculously overpriced loans back, give a couple of the superstars away in January, and use a fraction of their mammoth wages to pay some lesser players that might keep the club in the division, and more importantly, still in existence. Either that or carry on trading the AA Storrie way - put everything on black and cross your extra fingers. Whatever you say about those two they've got nerves of steel - you wouldn't want to play poker against them, they won't quit until they have lost the lot.

be interesting to see how AA's projected income from transfers, attendances and wage reduction is stacking up - I sense a dodgy revised and reduced cva looming as he's miles off target. Then again he'll be concentrating all his efforts on the investigation into the accounts as I'm sure he's desperate to get to the bottom of it - initial results due at the end of the month I think? And those pesky players will want wages again as well.....big wages that the income doesn't cover.

They have been really unlucky - it might have been a red card but why did the ref send 5,000 spectators home as well?? Even when our day doesn't go to plan there's always something to make you smile. Terrible attendance, poor display from the highly paid superstars in blue, more discipline issues, suspension pending, further adrift from the automatic places that a team on that budget has to be in. And that is the only small parallel between our two miserable games today - we too should be up the top with our squad and beating the likes of Carlisle, but if we fail this season, our five year plan takes an annoying dent. If they fail, pfc will be liquidated.

he and Grant must use the same divining twig, the industrial estate visitor found great fans at West Ham too. And Chelsea. I expect they are all knowledgable and have passion, and uniquely, they create an intimidating atmosphere for visiting teams - and any game they play against a team within fifty miles is a derby to compare with Milan or Glasgow. No doubt the players are pulling together, standing up to be counted, not quite getting the rub of the green, trying to find that little bit of quality in the final third, while the fans will be having half-time Bovril, and pies. God bless Nigel Adkins for not spouting cliched drivel - we know we are in trouble when he grabs a microphone and starts ranting about our spirit.

a bit of a blow when the most ruthless of football venture capitalists sees no point in taking on a club within a whisker of a Prem play off place. Then again Manadaric must have seen all the different versions of the accounts and knows a lot more about the real state of the club. Another indication that the business is still in big trouble. Kitson or Lawrence got their new Ferraris yet? It's hilariously mad that they outbid one of the richest clubs in the UK to take on those two - and that Utaka's contract is running down to zero which should turn him into a player that costs them the best part of £20M - approx £3M for each good performance. It makes Ridsdale look unlucky - and the train wreck is still going on.