rallyboy

Plucky old Ipswich reserves, getting a great result against the sleepiest giant. Presumably the ref found it all too much and allowed the equaliser.

Or is it going to fall over in the next breeze and is no longer financially viable? There must be a limit to how many times you can paint make up on a corpse before it becomes unsightly. Good luck talking the Fatpipes faithful into a move!

Mack, I get your point, but if she's that thick she's likely to do you an injury...

She did well. Though it does confirm that we've just wasted 105,123 posts trying to explain basic maths and finance to people with the IQ of fence posts.

Luton Town - weren't they punished for the crimes of the previous owners?.... It's pretty clear that financial irregularities occurred at Fatpipes and that the High Court was misled by pompey with false accounts. Luckily for them the current club has no links at all with the previous club of a similar name, they've only been in business for a couple of years - in fact they are currently in their joint highest ever league position.

Just wondered - with only two of the former owners in jail, how is that promised forensic investigation going into the most recent money-laundering, tax-dodging, pensioner-mugging, child-maiming spate of pompey administrations? I'm guessing the court appointed a company that thinks Chilcot is a maverick corner-cutter who rushes things - or perhaps the Premier League and the FA found a huge carpet to brush it all under? Oh well, that's all forgotten now - as they say at HMRC, the charities and the hundreds of other creditors across the city. Onwards and sideways.

Clearly his head has been turned but if his current form shows any sort of dip we will be in Ali Dia territory. Perhaps he'd like to buck up his ideas to attract a new club, and maybe earn some of his wages along the way?

It's drying rapidly beneath the Championship standard floodlights, the ones that are the envy of clubs the world over etc. How is the virtual pitch and crowdfunded Premier League fencing doing down at their training complex arena? Their players must be good at table tennis and Pacman by now.

No need to guess, reality will be established in the next two league games - Four points or more and all is well. Lose one, not so clever. Lose both - it's a fricking crisis!

They are equal top, you can't ask much more than that. Nothing can go wrong.

It's not really a big deal. Unless you are trying to run a professional organisation with hundreds of millions of pounds at stake.

He's a Kenyan, a greedy Kenyan... Christmas number one 2016? As for Mane - being late without an excuse beyond laziness clearly shows disrespect to the manager, the rest of the players, and the fans who travelled to support him. I would guess that 95% of the fanbase would back the manager on this one. Sadio's performances have been below par, he let everyone down at Norwich and he needs to demonstrate that he is on the bus. I suspect he is not.

That wasn't tea it was hot fat - and while it might be tasty and easy to consume if you have one tooth between you, PG Tips is probably the healthier option.

Indeed, let 2016 be one of health and contentment for all posters. Let victories be plentiful, glorious and dignified - and let defeats be ones that don't motivate us to wet the bed, pose for The Echo or go off on some ludicrous childish, hankie-waving, kneejerk rant that will empty the board quicker than a tear gas canister and come back to bite three days later.

One of the most advanced ticketing systems in the country = delusion.

Paris Appeals Court had acquitted Gaydamak (senior) on most of the illegal arms trading charges against him in the Angolagate affair, and had convicted him only of a tax violation and related money laundering charges. Gaydamak was sentenced to three years. Let's remember that this is the guy who Storrie admitted had really owned pompey with his son as the public face of the few. So the man who bought them the cup has been convicted of money-laundering and tax evasion, having done a deal to get off the illegal arms dealing. Nice CV.

Silver Machine, the anthem of the Soberton Village Hall disco, circa 1979!

No goals and no debts cleared in the administration derby - and only one club punished.

Some journalists don't seem to understand that the game is now about the squad and the days of eleven players playing 42 games a season pumped full of cortisone are now gone. Even the thickest players realise that they will not play every week, we just need the media to catch up.

I noticed from a photo that they also had a third/half of the stand at Brisbane Road. I heard in Portsea that the last time we went there we only sold 35 tickets and had to apologise to Orient. It was the same at Wigan, they famously sold out there and we struggled. Probably.

He started the night worried about marking Theo, who turned out to be a shadow of his former self, then popped up to score the goal of the season. Incredible. Nearly up there with Mane's historic two mins against Villa as an I was there moment.

Peace and goodwill to all men - as long as they remain at the ar$e end of the league pyramid and stop making up myths. All the bestest everyone - it's only a game. And Santa is red and white.

Conor Chaplin is averaging a goal every 93min 17sec for Pompey this season. It is a stunning strike-rate but how does the 18-year-old compare to the most prolific hitmen in the country. He doesn't, he's playing in a pub league.

He was one of the great characters of the sport from my formative years.

PORTSMOUTH has beaten rival city Southampton in a survey naming the best places to live within the UK. Then you read the actual survey and that glorious victory actually turns out to be 248th in the UK - well below Winchester, Eastleigh, Fareham, Gosport and even Havant! Nice. Put the bus back in the garage.