rallyboy

For £600 I'd want more than lunch with his wife.

I know the golden era will end, I was impressed it lasted beyond 2012, so unlike the creditors we have had our moneysworth BUT with a promotion comes the return of deluded simpleton myths. When they storm League Two the backslapping and noise will increase, and once again they'll be the biggest club in world sport and the last few years will be written from history - apart from the cup and their 2-2 win at SMS that kept us in the Championship. Then we'll just have the fun of League One...

If that offends you the world must be a pretty scary place on a daily basis.

I get that Chez and we have the default position of assuming the worst - but they do tend to offer higher wages and they seem to be dishing out longer deals than those teams around them which suggests that there is still a policy of gambling on success running through the spine of their business plan, if they have one. Money is going on contracts and out of the door, but the begging bowl comes out for infrastructure. So they have aged journeymen on three year deals playing in a crumbling relic held together by fat, hope and the plucky tears of young dreamers. #priorities

Finally we have an image of Sepp Blatter that sums up his reign! Nice one.

This might come as a shock to you, so brace yourself...the world is full of idiots who don't know what they're doing.

I can't see them promising a promotion and then failing to deliver it, they are favourites after all. So I expect them to rip up the division like the massive club that they are. I still haven't seen an interview with the floodlights that have dropped down two divisions to be part of the journey...

That makes The Echo looks like Universal Studios. Anyone seen Talk Solent TV which is cobbled together badly at Highbury? I can only assume that one of their top trainees also produced that excuse for a video interview with Cook at pompey's new groundshare.

Will it make life easier for us next summer if Les takes Brendan Rogers with him now and negotiates Jordy's next move as well as the current one?

Most water dispersed in one go by a sitting MP?

By the thread title I can only assume that Rupert's old Subaru estate is up on Autotrader. It must have done 200k miles around the farm and probably smells of dogs - and failure.

As a result of this news I am pacing my front garden and if the postman attempts to deliver my season ticket in a minute I shall punch him in the face!

The Spinnaker farce rolls on... They have painted it blue, but they didn't have permission too. It turns out the tower was built with a massive grant and any changes are now controlled by the lottery fund. Part of the funding deal was that they have a say over sponsorship, and presumably will be wanting some of their money back...no one has told them about the Emirates gig, nor asked them - nor offered them a cut of the new money! It's a funny old city that seems to have a unique take on monetary things.

So pompey don't have a pitch to train on? No wonder all these elderly signings were so impressed when they saw the facilities...nothing to do with the length of contract or wages, it was the sight of Havant's pitch that lured them south. That special relationship sounds like Havant giving their plucky neighbours help, not the other way round.

That's a bit harsh.

Toby left a club that lives in the shadow of its neighbour, and joined Spurs. The end.

Everyone has spent their £13m in the town before they get into the fortress of fat.

But still no reference to the crime of running a British football club on stolen funds or an enquiry into it by football authorities....They've swept so much sh!t under that carpet it must look like the Andes by now. Re season tickets, I checked how much you get for your money. One adult plus two kids can total £400 for the season. They have the gate numbers, but not the income - it's all about selling cheap to aid summer cashflow but results in very little in matchday sales. The perfect business model is to sell less up front, deliver on the pitch and sell out at top dollar - that scenario would deliver maybe three times as much money as their current model. And Sue, I don't know what's wrong with your mind, I was just highlighting how he bought younger players.

Are Madrid getting their legal advice off Google? Perhaps Spurs are innocent parties here who are being sold something by people who don't technically own it.

Uncle Avram splashed out on a couple of youngsters....

If Madrid can ignore a contract after a deal can we give Spurs the money back for Bale and say we've changed our minds and he belongs to us?

If our paperwork is correct Spurs are negotiating with a club that doesn't own him. They need to buy him from us. £25m. Sadly, probably not that simple - but it's good to have a dream.

Big page number - 2067. The next time we'll play them.

oh no, don't start posting Ho's finest moments, those are right up there with the statue and Penny emptying Hilsea Lido in one go.... In fact I think we should put a list of Ho's quotes up on Itchen Bridge. If you are at a dark point in your life, his story about the council giving pompey land to sell to Tesco for £20m would definitely cheer you up. Just as the statue of Milan Krankie looking up at the bridge kept people from jumping all those years ago.

In all fairness Mero the thread had sat quietly for a couple of days - until you banged it up the top again. Please send the Ho over, we miss his ITK takeover teasers, his transfer rumours and of course his take on how the worlds of banking and finance operate.