rallyboy

Just heard from a guy that I know, apparently all of our players who appeared at Wembley the other week have just been paid. It seems that all of their wages went into their bank accounts on the date that they were supposed to.

Don't worry, he knows where reverse gear is and will engage it when you least expect.

Thanks for asking the question Lord T but I fear that so much has been swept under that particular carpet that the floor now looks like the Himalayas.

Any news on the forensic investigation into the accounts? I've heard two little snippets in the last couple of weeks. A pompey fan told me that Gaydamak has retained a 19 inch strip of land that landlocks the current ground...is my little fishy-fingered friend a few years behind on the gossip, or could that be true? And I heard details of a transfer between a club...and another club, a few years ago, that involved a player moving to and fro just to keep the manager and his assistant in the manner to which they had become accustomed, if you get my drift. The sort of deal that wouldn't look good if it came up at big job interviews.

Not a single shot on target.

I'm no expert but that 'scummer' seems to have the stripes going the wrong way on his shirt - looks like a Doncaster fan. Easy mistake to make though if you aggressively market heather for a living - and simple shapes and colours confuse you. There were ten of them and two plucky pompey lads cut them up bad...another portsmyth is born.

They are all coming out of the woodwork today - I suppose they'd be more impressed had we signed Pogba and Ibrahimovic, won the cup and not paid their wages. We too could then be Division Four minnows.

If he wanted to make a point he had no need to slag off former players, or to put a bet on United, he's done himself no favours. I'll be kind and assume that some of that was quoted out of context. But if he's going to rant like that, no wonder he never gets invited to anything.

If matey only has a very slight hamstring strain let him start on Sunday and rip the thing open the first time he sets off at pace. Apart from that, I don't care whether they put out a third team, I just want us to beat whoever is stuck out there in front of us. And Jose can say whatever he wants, I won't be listening.

The best striker outside the Premiership? For starters, that's a rugby competition, so that is quite a claim. And pompey have fallen so far they have not a clue about what is happening in bigboy football. They think that every coach who shows promise in the 4th tier is the next England manager, and that any player who scores a couple of goals against Barnet or Newport is destined for Chelsea or Man City. How far do they have to fall before reality floods in and washes away these insane delusions of mediocrity??

Good point that - were it against someone other than Barnet.

A good purchase to strengthen a weak area as he clearly has quality - but I don't think I'll be rushing out and getting his name on a shirt quite yet. He will either become a cup legend or that bloke who played three games for us and then went to Stoke for his retirement.

We were 90 minutes away from getting an invitation but Sunderland forgot to put a stamp on it. (unlike Vardy)

While we do see some horrific haircuts these days and some players need a slap, how does FIFA feel about referees using their powers to impose religious codes? I'm not sure that the beautiful game should be used as a tool to enforce anything of that sort. It is a sport for all ages and genders, it brings people together and sells us Coke and McDonalds, it's not for promoting religions.

Leicester could finish bottom at the rate they are going, there is still no sign of hope. Palace and Bournemouth are going to get involved, while Sunderland, Boro and Hull look incapable of pulling clear. It will be interesting to see who can put a run together, I reckon Leicester, Palace and Sunderland could go - but it might be decided in the last ten minutes of the season...which will be exciting for everyone else to watch!

That is such a poor division that I still can't see them dodging promotion again, that would be an epic achievement. So tonight is the big one - win at home and I suspect they will scramble into third for the rest of the season. That would mean they could rejoin bigger clubs like Bury, Rochdale and Fleetwood. But credit where it's due, and they do love a bit of credit. They have come a a long way in five years - from the bottom of League One, all the way to...half a dozen places below that.

Interesting read ta - it looks like the game has come a long way from steaks for pre-match meal and a fag at halftime. And it's good to see that we appear to have developed a sports science approach that should be a blueprint for others to follow - with no reference to hockey or rugby!

What a pleasant surprise. We appear to have stumbled across someone who is able to strike a decent blow to a cow's arse with a banjo.

The difference with VVD is that everyone had the opportunity to buy him when we did - it must be the most public transfer we have done in recent years. We haven't unearthed a gem, as in Poch, Mane, Lovren (!), Koeman, Alderweireld, Clyne, Pelle etc - the whole world knew that we were in for VVD and they had all seen him play, no one else was interested. Hopefully, whatever it was that discouraged them back then, still does now.

That's kind of him to make himself available for the Wembley gig.

I know top strikers are the preserve of the well-funded elite but we do seem to be gathering a collection of forwards who are not quite there - it's all a bit quantity over quality at the moment.

In health news, another glorious victory for the spiritual home of the few. The Shepherd's Crook, the traditional home pub within a fat squirt of Fratton Park, has scooped the Portsmouth City Council award for the dirtiest pub on Portsea. When visited by health inspectors it was the only pub in the city to score zero in hygiene ratings.

Is the club really five years old already? - how times flies when you are jealous.

Run Nige, run as far away from that place as you can get.

pompey recruit promising Championship full back - at last, something that matches the ambition of the floodlights! (in reality - a player last seen in Wolves reserves squad)