rallyboy

at this time of year when there should be a lull and a meeting in the middle of the battle to swap family pix with Paul McCartney, I say merry christmas to Merov and one or two other sensible folk from the wrong side of the tracks. I won't even do the obvious jokes about the rather thin calendars and diaries they will be getting tomorrow (just the one month) - as football fans I salute you in your hour of need, you are entitled to your faith, even if it is wrong, perverted, and shared by some very odd people - repent now and join us before it's too late. And in the same festive mood I say b@llox to the gobby, cross-eyed, sister-worrying, home-tattooed, Bates-abusing, horse-trading, tarmac-laying, arms dealer-embracing, bumper ride-organising, caravan-dwelling, part-time supporting, bath-dodging, brothel-funding goons who arrogantly laughed at us, abused us in the street and boasted of billionaire arabs and world cup stadiums while we took points penalties and third tier football on the chin. You bring shame on a club that has redefined the word through criminality and seedy dealing. For the first time in many years, football is good. And may Mr Liebherr, Cortese and Pardew all have a great 2010, cos if they are all doing alright, I know I am! Judged as just a footballing force or even as a business, 2010 could be the year when there will once again only be one team in Hampshire

can we just try and get to grips with the full extent of this ongoing debacle, I'm losing track. Transfer money owed Taxman owed the arms dealer owed huge loans More huge loans owed to the other bloke Sol Campbell still owed Al Fahim will want paying off The bank Horton Heath sex scandal Storrie, Mandaric and Redknapp in court that could lead to financial irregularities The new man running the finances is a convicted fraudster The 'owner' may not actually exist Have I missed anything? I'm sure there was more than that....doesn't seem so bad when you read it quickly. John Westwood must regret walking under that ladder.

there may be a difference between 'playing' and just walking about in the same shirt as the others so they may be able to do that deal. Either way, Santa wears red and white and he's about to give us some big presents!

for a man whose spending his free time being chauffeur-driven at someone else's expense between sexual encounters of his choosing, Grant doesn't look very happy. They have turned into a very odd club, sleaze, corruption, tax evasion - they just need to bring Gary Glitter in to look after the youth academy and they have ticked every box. Hang on though, Rix ticked that one first - it's a full house!! Kids,the Prem, prossies, the taxman, the bank, the fans - between them the management of Portsmouth FC has now offically shafted the lot. Well done all, what a team effort.

Their appalling Hawthorns display relegated Crystal Palace, tis a well-known fact. They went on to save Fulham with a similar surrender that annoyed real football fans everywhere. Next thing we will be hearing this story about some Southampton Commercial Union who stole jobs etc in some distant strike that no one can actually recall. It's a pity that talk won't pay the debts, then again it has been incredibly quiet on here for months so that might not work either.

'I have done it before with both Sulaiman Al Fahim and then Ali being brought on board' said Mr Storrie... You certainly have Peter, keep up the good work bringing quality businessmen to the table, especially as you are on £1.3M a year and you were at the helm when the directors fees trebled while the income went through the floor. Go on, have another loan, you know you want to, and I guess it's wages week again - with the added worry of a flipping win bonus! Has Sol been paid for lifting the cup yet? It would be a bit much to go on about it when you haven't even paid the poor bloke. The soap goes on.

Benjii mate, he stamped on him, not that there is anything wrong in that but he did go over the top, but I fully support your policy of a red card for just wearing a blue shirt. Anyway, once again the weekend that Pompey have a massive result, several others gather big points too - they just can't get off the bottom. Looks like a must-must win on Boxing Day and that's before you take into account the penalties that will be flying about at some point soon. But the Liverpool result could be the one that kickstarts their season. I remember one year we were struggling in that position and then we beat Liverpool 2-0 at home and everything changed, we went on a fantastic run that carried us to safety. sort of.

not a good development for them, all they need is Mandaric's file to go to court and you have the pattern that a club's senior officers have all systematically conned the taxman = financial irregularities = huge penalty. As for yesterday, two cracking finishes but Liverpool were awaful, and for the guy on here who said that the red card was for nothing, don't think I want to play in any games he's reffing. While the off pitch gathering storm is set to rain down during January, the little business of football makes the Upton Park clash MASSIVE. If they win it they need to set their new target as midtable to wipe out an admin penalty. Are we about to witness the start of the greatest escape act of all time or will they draw 0-0 at appalling West Ham?

Great result - but their performances on the pitch are irrelevant. Unless an idiot billionaire rides in to town they are going to go pop, and quite soon.

a good effort. Could have been worse - other results were kind, Lambert could/should have been sent off, or he could have been subbed and argued with the manager on the way off prior to departing in January. And according to Radio Solent, Leeds are still running on huge budgets which is okay if you own something. They are now living the dream and trying to rent success.

another day, another problem. This is like 20 years of strife at any other struggling club all condensed into six months. I suppose it would be apt if the man who lifted the cup they purchased brings them down because they didn't pay his win bonus. Whoever's writing the script is definitely a Saints fan. And I didn't miss the Rix farce comment - too sharp (old) for most on here!

the real gem is that this development highlighted by The Sun must have shot to bits any hope of refinancing. 'Hi, I'm a serial fraudster with many convictions, I'm representing a company on the brink of implosion, can we have lots of your money please with no chance of a return or even repayment as we have no real income, and we only need your cash because someone in the office has already stolen the other £100M we had'.

That is hilarious, this is well beyond a plausible comedy now, it's gone into ludircous farce. Faraj running around with his trousers down, the vicar at the door, comical defending, it's got the lot - and more! Has it got to the point where we feel sorry for them yet, it can't go on like this. They must have technically been in admin for months, please put us all out of our misery.

well it appears that they have helped push Watford to the brink - tonight they seem resigned to administration. If this is the case, hopefully the knock on effect from one of Mr Fry's colleagues calling in debt will be the dominoe that brings the Fratton house of cards crashing down. (or have I mixed my pub game analogies there?...)

seeing a bloke in a Norwich shirt lying on the ground pretending he's been elbowed, and he looks up briefly to see that the Wembley train is about to pull out of the station without him. Crouchie rolling a penalty past Mr Bean. Moran volleying in at the far post. Mmmmm, happy days. Ricky Lambert hammering a free kick over a wall and into the top corner to win the 2010play off final at Wembley.

if that's the way forward for football we will have the holy war consortium from down the road knocking on the door for a chat pretty soon. And what would Pompey bring to the party?... A data base we could sell to Lidl? Tips on where to sell our scrap gold? Towbar advice? Not much else these days - don't think we'll get too deep into merger talks ta.

If Holt had been booked twice he should have been booked a third time for his appalling acting display that fooled no one and gave us the extra seconds to equalise and send him and his tubby chums home shell-shocked. Mmmm, a good night, no - a great night!

ah, Meols - the home of OMD, but as a Wirral Saint I'm sure you knew that.....and noting that both Tranmere and Pompey looked like they took 150 to their games and there wasn't a great difference in the officially reported figures, respeck to the Wirralites.

what does annoy me is the number of commentators who have no grasp of the game - ie, Carvalho blatantly follows through with raised studs into a player's back - 'oh, that was an accident' says Motty... or that animal Essien launches two-footed into someone's thigh clipping the ball en route - 'that wasn't a foul he got the ball' says another idiot. An alarming lack of perception in their specialist areas. And Shearer is the dullest man in Europe.

looked like about twenty of them on the telly - that's not even a whole household. I still don't see that snatched point paying off a single debt, and that's where their real problem is. I did chuckle at the Wolves v Redknapp result though, it had everything!

It's not rocket science, finally a newspaper has worked it out. The alarm bells were ringing when Crouch abandoned a Champions League club for a massive payrise. It was always madness, you didn't even need hindsight.

I don't see more than £12M of value in that squad, especially when Harry starts helping himself to bargains. Which just brings into great clarity for anyone who hasn't worked it out yet - the figures do not stack up! Without a massive instant gift (NOT LOAN!) it must be over. The only value in the business is the ability to generate Prem TV money, but even if they stay up they have signed that money away so a new owner can't get at it for years. There is no income. Assets - Playing squad -£12M - get out while you can guys. Ground - secured against £15M debt - whoosh, there it goes. Any adjacent land or training ground plot not owned by the arms dealer? - secured against another £10M? Whoops, it's flats. Selling EVERYTHING would only clear half the debt leaving an administrator with little to work from - For sale - the name 'Portsmouth FC' £20M.

Mid-January must be crunch time. All the lenders and creditors will have been told of the Sky money's imminent arrival, it was the little bright spot on the horizon so there will be quite a bundle to try and get hold of it. When it becomes apparent that it has been used for other debts there will be no reason to wait, that could be winding-up order/byebye secured assets time. Presumably in the meantime Storrie will find another small high interest loan to try and see them through January, this will be paraded as... 'vital investment that will allow the club to move forward with new stadium plans and squad-strengthening', when in reality it will be enough to cover another wage bill. And I note that he was keen to point out this week that he himself has a couple of years contract that would need paying off should they offload him. Like Paul Hart, they cannot afford to keep him, and they can't afford to pay him off. Which reminds me, when they paid up Redknapp's Saints contract and paid us compensation, was that an amount that would eventually keep us afloat an extra month and give us the opportunity to secure our new owners? I would like to see it that way!

The info was in the public domain as a planning application so I can see why they went with it, I can also see why Nicola wasn't happy. Let's not turn into Pompey and ban the local paper every three games over nowt - the News wrote that a game was poor and are still banned.... Whatever we think and I know who who I would chose as well, both parties need each other so sit down and have a chat, it can be sorted in 5mins. Storm in one of those little thimbles that they drink coffee out of in Italy.

PES you are indeed tarnished by those around you. There are many on here who cared little of the rivalry until a significant number of Pompey fans came to St Marys and abused the memory of Ted Bates. Shout 'scummer', peddle made up stories about strikes, gloat about holding the FA cup during the war, but abusing the dead in the name of rivalry? When Flahavan died there was respect from all other fans and I thought that that moment would be enough of a reminder, but the appalling display that night showed that there is a majority within the blue few that bring shame on the club. That incident above others drives the dislike on here, and the flames were nicely fanned six months ago when we hit rock bottom and had to take our punishment for financial stupidity. Add all the gloating over Maradona and the stadium in the harbour and an observer might note that Pompey is run by clowns and ripe for humiliation from all corners of the league - if you put Watford into administration as well it will be a crime against football and will make Pompey the most unpopular club in the land - and not in a good way. On the bright side, I don't see the club disappearing, just downsizing a tad. And as someone who is happy to gloat, I'm not doing it with mates of mine who are on the wrong side of the river, I'm doing it at those gobby, cross-eyed, sister-worrying simpletons who booed Ted and who jumped on the overpriced bandwagon when Pompey paid £150M for a 1-0 win over Cardiff. The hangers on were all out there on the common to celebrate that day, but where are they now? Without massive immediate investment there could soon be only one real club in Hampshire, yes we are currently way behind in terms of league status, but the future is so very red and white.