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Like-minded people having fun? Leaving the safety of the computer? Getting fitter while sharing an interest in football? Sounds rubbish.

The huge figure is explained away by the transfer of England starlet-in-waiting Jed Wallace. Total agent fees paid across the whole squad including the new management and coaching team - £268k Wallace transfer fee - £275k Agent fee on that deal - £25k? Another portsmyth crushed. I'm just starting to wonder whether the figures add up...

They make friends wherever they go! Opposition fans should take an instant dislike to the few who have regressed to the 1970s - it'll save them time in the long run.

Coins thrown at their former hero after he scores the winner, fans abusing players at the final whistle, players go to speak to fans, have to be pulled away by coaching staff to avoid scuffles. #classy Hello, is that 1972? Have you lost a football club? I think we've found it....

They are just about hanging onto joint top.

I attended an event in Gosport recently where the compere asked the crowd how many of them supported pompey. Out of 60 kids, not a single hand went up - tumbleweed drifted past. The decline in pompey shirts worn in Fareham and Gosport is significant, the fun of Division Four is wearing thin. Your children will wear our shirt....

Nice to see that again. So many criminals, so many unpaid debts, so much delusion - all under one rickety roof! Who would have thought that getting in bed with loan sharks, the actual mafia , and people who kill children for a living, could lead to League Two? I blame the FA.

They are joint top but the table shows Northampton as leaders - but only on points difference.

Those were funny days! Had they been wound up we would never have seen them lose at Aldershot, this thread would have died, the Morecambe keeper wouldn't have had his glorious moment in the sun and we would never have learned that Fleetwood is actually a club in the football league. Yes, they have achieved a great deal. The 48% donated funding business model really works. #jealous

It still makes me chuckle that Ted faces out to the east and is waving them goodbye.

The rivalry changed at that moment.

Inconsistency is the worst thing. Get things wrong, yeah, we all make mistakes - but to give different decisions in the same match for similar events suggests you are out of your depth. And for me too many of our refs are inconsistent.

This week Jeremy Hunt was exposed as a liar. His position is untenable, any comments he makes now should be treated with great caution. I cannot see how anyone could consider that he has either done a good job here, or not tried to mislead the public. As our air strikes create the next generation of terrorists, Jeremy Hunt and David Cameron are inspiring future Red Wedge tours with their blatant efforts to force private healthcare into the mainstream, steamrolling NHS staff and the vulnerable to make that pathway. And if you are from the extreme right, don't bother to troll me as I don't debate with people who are beyond sensible thought.

£13m a game! That's how much they claimed they contributed to the local economy to justify a council loan, and Penny stood up and confirmed this. £13million a game...the local creditors should now be paying the club!

Interesting to see Peterborough tonight fielding some really good young players, even if penalties isn't their strong point. They have no money and small crowds but their youth development is producing talent, and the benefits of selling them on keeps the business ticking over. pompey could learn something from a bigger club like Peterborough. Which reminds me, has the 48% fan-owned business model ever worked, anywhere?

Does he cut his own hair with his Nan's bacon scissors?

Personally I would never leave before the end of the game and these days I pride myself on being the last person in SMS. Unless I have been able to help the stewards with the checking of seats, seen the goalposts being taken down and have been physically removed by security I don't feel I have given the team my full support.

Fortress! I love the tabloid use of language down there, it's about simplifying messages to the easily-led and trying to big up life in the bottom tier of league football. All the players have to be battling troops, anything over three quarters full is a sell out, any comment on the template from a new player is a pledge, all defeats are brave, a few quid has to be a promotion warchest, a donation is in fact a share, a percentage over 25% equals fan-owned, any request for anything is a rallying cry and anyone who has ever attended a game is the faithful. The club has now established a link with both Milan (the glorious draw) and Barcelona (the glorious home defeat by Bournemouth reserves), and if you put all of those pieces together you get an exciting piece on how great life is in Division Four. Template no.12 - new signing, forward. Premier League Ace Up For The Fight! New striker and lower league journeyman ----, fresh from watching a Premier League match on television, has issued a rallying cry to Paul Cook's battling troops and pledged to fire the goals that will lift pompey to the next level. The prolific hitman has also rather predictably praised the fans and asked them to back the team with a cauldron of noise. And with a sell-out crowd the home heroes will be looking for the Fratton faithful to create a siege mentality at the fortress this Saturday when ---- are the opponents. Boosted by recent back-to-back home defeats, the Blues will look to go one better against ---- who are plucky little minnows who should just give up the points because it's their cup final etc....blah, blah, battling, hunger, freedom to play, belief, desire, yawn... Simple messages spoon-fed to the simple.

Just listened to the Cook interview - he has no class. He complained that the interviewer was only asking negative questions, after a home defeat - and that he did the same at the previous home defeat. Perhaps he has been spoilt by the club's official PR agency The News and doesn't like the sound of reality. He is rattled and losing it.

Ding, ding! The Hero-Villainometer alarm is going. Whatever became of the man who only a matter of days ago gave them the greatest goal seen since the 1970 World Cup?

Anyone who saw amateurs attempting to make pottery on The Generation Game will know how pompey's grand future-shaping is going.

Those are the base figures but once you have put them through the passionometer and seasonally adjusted them, pompey are way above joint top.

I do hope pompey's deal with Sports Direct is better than the one that little Rangers were able to negotiate... A court has just heard that the Scottish minnows have been getting 4p in the pound for every shirt sale - and they have been paying Sports Direct for the retail outlets too! Rangers don't have the fanbase and they had financial problems and haven't existed for very long so they probably had to sign whatever. Whereas pompey are in a much better position to negotiate a good deal.

So just to clarify, we drew at Arsenal in front of 60,000 the same night that pompey drew at Morecambe in front of 1,399. They really are living the dream - even though the income from that fixture probably wasn't enough to pay for the players' bicycles, let alone a slap-up roadside squirrel supper on the way home. #jealous

I had this hilarious dream last night!!