rallyboy

Warsash makes a valid point - Beech not going to Wembley is a proper boycott. You can't get on your high horse in the winter and stay in the warm, then roll up for the big games in the spring, wearing your half-and-half scarf like nothing happened. Fair play to him.

Am I?

You have to feel sorry for Birmingham City, they couldn't have predicted that. It's not like they brought in a manager with a history of unusual transfer activity leading to financial problems at every club that he's joined. Possibly their unluckiest decision since they appointed Harold Shipman as first team doctor.

I'm sure they'll be some diehards at Wembley who in reality have seen fewer pompey games than one of our own players.

The only comparison is the JPT - I believe that was approx 51,000?

I see another of the former owners of the former club that used to be formerly known as pompey, has been banged-up. It was the one who certainly didn't have people shot or launder criminal money through the club, which I believe everyone decided must the fault of the FA rather than those who appointed him and let him buy players to win football matches. I'm sure all of that messy business will be cleared-up when this ongoing forensic investigation into the accounts is completed - a process so laboured it's now making Brexit look like a trip to Aldi.

Call me old fashioned but I'm going to hold fire and see if any actual facts surface regarding the main charge. At the moment we know that one bloke was abusive on his walk home, but his behaviour wasn't deemed serious enough to warrant anything more than a telling off, for being a ****.

Had a player performed that badly he would never play for us again. It was as if someone claiming to be Collina had rung up and suggested his cousin should be allowed to have a go at reffing. He was so poor it was beyond ridiculous. If Kevin was a racehorse they'd have summoned the course vet and ended the sorry debacle behind sheets, as an act of mercy.

Is that a picture of DLT at the Radio One Xmas party?

Had he been on the ground then he'd have no complaints as he'd blocked a goalbound effort. But his arm prevented the ball hitting the bloke in Row TT - the ball was going out for a goalkick, he gained nothing from having his arm away from his side. It's just unfortunate that it's come straight after their 'good fortune' against us, it just confirms the feeling that some clubs are 'lucky', in every game.

The guy is incredible - it would be great if the dressing room could do something special for a guy who was once a leader in there.. Many footballers fade away after their careers, Franny has gone from strength-to-strength and demonstrated what a unique character he is. Our tenners or twentys are great, but a senior pro probably wouldn't miss four or five grand - and that's the sort of support he deserves.

Oh no, I don't think I can make that date either. That's the night that I normally drop off my dog to meet shady characters at motorway service stations to collect envelopes of filthy cash, paid in return for signing unsuitable players that my dog's club neither wants nor needs, a criminal act that could lead the business into financial collapse, but works for my dog, because it also charges the players for giving them inflated and lengthy deals that make no football sense to anyone.

Consistency has left the building. I recall Yoshida being given offside in recent years when he peeked one eye and his nose around a defender - technically off. I also recall him being given offside this season when he was nowhere near the ball! In comparison, Lukaku was clearly off, a very simple decision. And don't start me on Prowsie's ability to lean on a Brighton central defender and knock him over - that penalty decision could still cost us. If that was a penalty, we are owed approx 130 of them, including two from the weekend, and probably another couple this week.

Swings and roundabouts - today we could have been 2-0 up and their second goal disallowed because it was offside, but next week we might win a throw-in on the halfway line that really should be theirs. It all evens-out.

The man who has tired of seeing that has tired of life. A double wardrobe in a swimsuit performing with the grace of a barrow full of rubble being fly-tipped into Hilsea Lido. At least she's stopped harvesting the votes of simpletons by defending tax evasion.

As long as we don't have to listen to him talk about it. Puel World - dull football followed by dull interviews.

I'm guessing the decision was made prior to the United game and the replacement process started then and is all but complete now. At least we learned from last season when a manager kept promising improvement but the league form and table were ignored. Let's face it, not beating that United side is shocking - our Championship side would have banged four past them and the League One side would have fancied it too. The new guy has quite a job to do - first task could be planning a big expensive bonfire of deadwood in January.

We. Would. Destroy. Them. (imo)

Owners of Portsmouth News are going into administration.

Nick's partially correct - there's only one team to laugh at right now. But let's remember that they are competing against scout groups and service stations in a division that has now become slightly less competitive than the Dockyard League. At this rate we'll get to see how good they really are at SMS next season.

Such a sad day for football - it puts the minor irritations of things like league tables into context. Shanks got it wrong, it's just a game.

Isn't that a service station?

However Mr Farmery called claims that 'scummers' came from broken strikes as an ‘urban myth'. He explained said: ‘There is no documentation evidence of the origins (of scummers) particularly. ‘I think the most likely explanation is that it was a term invented in the 60s or 70s as a term for Southampton supporters and people from the city in general and it caught on. ‘There is no evidence that it originates from dockyards and shipping. It very much seems to be an urban myth. #notnews Next you'll be telling us that you don't bring £13m into the city every home game.

This is a living nightmare for them - they've spent six years moaning about the Premier League, celebrating their distance from it and boasting how proper football in League Two is brilliant. Now here they are knocking on the door of the Champions' League and threatening to lose all the goodwill generated by playing the likes of Fleetwood and Barnet every other week. Disney Boy needs to put the brakes on and maintain the gloriously plucky lower league status that everyone says they love...and when Sky come offering £150m they can tell them where to stick their dirty cash!

I'm just pointing out that there are many people who have no idea what evidence there may or may not be, but they jumped the gun on day one and decided exactly what had occurred. They have since then followed wherever The Daily Mail and The Sun have pointed them without asking any questions about the validity of the scenario being spun. We are now being asked to believe that two clueless clowns who can't even organise a day trip, are top professional hitmen sent by Putin. They came in under their own names, blundered around the shops locating every CCTV camera in Wiltshire, they failed to kill the target, they handled and dumped weapons grade nerve agent in a park, without harming themselves - now they have appeared on TV offering a ridiculous explanation based mainly around the height of the cathedral, and their main ambition to walk to Stonehenge, was scuppered by a dash of snow and the lack of a street map. And you think I'm nuts for suggesting that they don't sound like top spies?... They sound like a pair of cheap backstreet hitmen brought in by an annoyed former business partner - but if you believe they are the Kremlin's finest, go with it and we shall in time see what evidence there is to link to Putin.