rallyboy

I saw a game there last year and the away bit is a stand from 1900 that will fall down if we sing too loud, but they do have apartment blocks in the four corners so that's nice. And they have a gobby chairman who was very vocal during our financial problems.

I like football, it's fun again.

Al Fahim has just announced - I will remain head of the club’s board of directors for two seasons. Moreover, I kept 100 percent of the club’s real estate assets and this is something nobody has paid attention to or spoken about. I am announcing this for the first time that [the real estate assets] are owned by the Al Fahim Group. Without doubt the real estate aspect is important in sports investment. Praise be to God, I was able to transfer all the club’s debts to the new owner and I gained excellent revenue........ Bit of a BOMBSHELL if he can be believed on this one, I think he is saying he has asset-stripped the club of the adjacent land and left them with the ground only?.....if it's true it means they have nowhere to develop anymore and he can do whatever he wants with only a 10% concern about the annoying neighbour Mr Faraj and his little strip of football pitch surrounded by sheds. If true, and with him it's a big if, he isn't the bumbling idiot we all thought and he has just royally shafted the new owner and given himself a veto and a chance to name his price on any future ground improvements.

there is nothing to repay, she's in Casualty, her career is over.

and Phil's suggestions about internal middle east conflict at Fratton seem to be coming to fruition according the The Sun. Tomorrow will tell us what shape they are really in, if they were to turn over Spurs it will mean the train wreck is slowing down. But another home defeat on top of continued financial uncertainty and the fat lass is adjusting the microphone stand.

I don't get how some supporters are still happy to trade a scraped win over Cardiff City against the whole future of their club. We all know that Redknapp and Storrie overspent ludicrously and bought the trophy (fifteen years after it meant anything), only now is it being decided how much they have to pay for it - is it to be six months of embarrased lonely silence surrounded by empty seats or a couple of years of misery, it may be a generation of failure, or possibly still, the end of the road? If someone offered me promotion this year but with a fifty-fifty chance of admin within two years I would decline, call that unambitious but IMO you cannot trade in success using the whole club history as security. Do Leeds fans look back lovingly and celebrate their ill-fated Champions League campaign and Ridsdale's wonderful fish collection? Do we look back and glorify in the last few years of mismanagement saying we wouldn't change a thing? No, but the blue few still stubbornly insist it was worth endangering all of their history just to turn over some fellow caravanners.....like the Fratton redevelopment budget, that just doesn't add up, and like the debt mountain that is PFC, I don't buy it. Which funnily enough is what every serious investor has said after meeting Storrie with their mothers at the Little Chef in Barnet.

the poor bloke is cursed.

player of the season, manager of the month, yes - but a League One team of the week? Nice to be included but let's not get too excited about a thinly-veiled attempt at thrusting fizzy pop further down our throats.

I think it's really unfair for Donny to expect Gillett to be able to find £100m from somewhere, Ecclestone is just expecting too much from him, he's only been there a few days, he knows nothing of the planning wrangles thus far and it's playing right into Silvertone's hands. He may have struggled for form this season but it just seems unfair on the lad and if they lose the GP because of him he will lose confidence and come back to us as damaged goods. Pardew is the pits. ''Donington Ventures Leisure Limited has another two weeks to demonstrate our credentials for hosting the British GP," said Donington boss Simon Gillett.''

I recall a big goal in a top of the table Dell clash against Man City as well, good servant to the club, and his family lived in Deacon Rd. And he had an Alfa.

I thought the Pompey train crash was over but it is starting to look like there might be further potential. Redknapp is still facing charges, which would link directly to anyone involved in the same Storrie, and now more delays in debt repayment? Odd for a second billionaire to allow that.... After a few days of silence the alarm bells are starting to chime again. I can't believe they have stumbled across another lunatic, surely not, one is unfortunate.... And the media know the details because unlike the last two owners they bothered to look at the due diligence process.

no one needs to apologise for pointing out the fact that he was well below par last season but like all the tiresome recent history that's a different country now and should be left there, great to see him back to the player we all hoped he could be. If Surman had stayed and got back to his best as well we would be mighty formidable, there might be a career lesson in there somewhere.

we will finish the season at Wembley carrying Liebherr and Pardew around shoulder high, celebrating the most amazing promotion in league history. No? Ok, 10th. It was a nice thought though.

only heard Barnes yesterday saying how he was quite happy and the chairman hadn't giving him the dreaded vote of confidence. It seems he was even getting booed when they were leading the other day. It must be our storming run that is now bringing a reality check to one or two above, if we could get a point at Southend it could be the last straw for another couple of managers...

I reckon Theo might ask for a move after two games, and looking at that defence, if Phillips is coming off the bench it will be when we need four goals in the last ten minutes.

that's disappointing news, I was rather hoping we would sell him to Avram Grant in January.

so clown number one handed over 90% of the club for nothing, which if you divide by nine and multiply by ten means the club is currently valued at...er, nothing. The danger of just allowing people to take control over the debt is that it attracts fantasists who see an easy profit if they can scrape together loans, which as fantasists they can't. I think it unlikely that they have stumbled across a second lunatic but if I were down the road I would like some detail of the new owner rather than this 'mysterious billionaire' excuse, so secretive that no one knows where his money is coming from. Once again, cash talks, if he puts it on the table then they are home and dry, until then, it's just spin. And paying the wage bill doesn't count, while hopefully Fahim's overpriced loan is already a done deal and that will come in to the equation as well. So there may still be some laughs left in this sorry old tale.

looks like the Fratton circus clowns may be packing up but it has been hilarious while it has lasted, and Al Fahim will always have a special place in our hearts, especially if he has sent them towards a 15pts deficit by January. But I think they will be okay now - Wolves, Hull and Burnley or Birmingham could be poorer in the long term. And as for the Blue few who deserted this board when things got tough, we must remind them of that when they reappear, which they no doubt will should things improve. The silence of the fish and the empty blue seats has been as funny as the results, long may all three continue.

Mr Pardew ain't at the wheel of a Sunseeker, this is a seriously damaged canoe that has patches keeping the water out. I want results like all and I think he could do better, BUT let's not propose a repeat of the revolving door policy mistakes of the past.

They tried to rush a deal through but another financial hammer blow is now on the way - 'The UK minimum wage will rise by 7p to £5.80 an hour from October, the government has announced.'

looks like another cheap option, I give it six weeks before the fake Dr does another U-turn and McAllister takes over, though they might be better off playing him. Lets make the most of this hilarity, it can't last much longer, any gathering of players will eventually stumble across a point, in the meantime, let's go past their points tally tonight.

if you'd asked me at the start of the season how many points I could dream of them having after seven games I would have been happy with four or five, I can't believe they can carry on like this for too much longer, they will get something at Wolves surely...if not they are properly doomed. And as it was when we were about to get relegated, the table doesn't currently reflect how bad it is in reality - most of us knew we were never going to bridge a small gap but people thought it was mathematically possible on both recent occasions and kept hoping for a miracle. So their fans think they are 'just a couple of wins from safety'. In reality they are eight points from safety already, and when you take the top five (man city?) out of the fixtures equation they already need maybe 40 points from about 23 games? Suddenly the figures don't stack up. Meanwhile they can't afford a new manager or players, and who wants to go there in January when they are ten points adrift and flirting with administration? The fake Dr thinks it's good news that he is about to double the debt, it's insane - they haven't learned one thing from our public debacle, bizarre, but funny. I can't believe they could be worse off if they had appointed a board made up of six of our maddest forum members whose only aim was to get them relegated and drive the business into the ground. We are living in a golden era.

as someone who wasn't there can I say big respect to the travelling faithful, that was a test of faith, finance and time-management! All 921 passed with flying colours by the sound of it. The future looks nice.

not sure whether I want Storrie to go, he's the man who is ripping cash out of the club in huge quantities and deserves credit as the hilarious driving force behind where they find themselves now, but then again, if their creditors are lenient because of him being there and his departure would force them over the edge, then he can sod off now. Either way it's hugely entertaining stuff, I think we may look back on this as a golden era for local rivalry. Ding, ding, call Mr Fry, there's another little job brewing up but this time the shop is empty.

How about a cake that Torres jumps out of, dances like a girl for a bit, then signs a loan deal and scores us forty five goals?