rallyboy

Indeed - it's a nice touch as a tribute to one of the game designers. Though I'm sure the few will think it's because they are a massive club.

When you said Martina didn't hide his frustrations, he made two good runs in the first half and was offered woeful return passes twice in a minute, one for a throw, the other straight out for a goalkick...the passing too him was quite poor throughout and I could understand why he might have wanted to ask what the F was going on occasionally.

It's written to be controversial, to create debate and to drive traffic to advertisers. They come up with an angle and then hunt down someone who will give a quote that fits the agenda. The same reason that some sites include deliberate spelling mistakes. Look at these idiots who can't spell... Yes, and 100,000 more people just viewed their site and increased their income from advertising. These are sad times for real news.

For me Rickie is a legend from our history, a vital part of our journey back - but that time has gone and we've moved on. Pelle now has the chance to create his own status - but he'll need to deliver over the next couple of seasons and I'm not convinced that we would be able to hang onto a prolific goalscorer that long, nor that he has the consistency. We only hung onto Rickie because the rest of football told us he was alright in League One but he couldn't hack it in the Championship, followed by he might be alright in the Championship but he'll never make the step up. His journey from League One to scoring for England will go down in Saints folklore, hopefully Pelle can do enough to join him on a web banner one day, but he has a long way to go.

This new idea of selling tickets twice is getting complicated, Liam Lawrence is going to have to stay on top of it or general sales will be all over the place.

Innovative? A pioneering trail-blazing, fan-friendly, community-inspired brain wave from the brand-leading, genre-defining, pluckiest marketeers in world sport! If you can't attend, the club sells your seat...isn't that the same service that we and presumably many others offer? I'm guessing the last time they filled their ground was when we played there, the season ticket holders who have suffered every other game since are pretty unlikely to miss their next big match against Sandbach Services, Lego Land or Greendale.

pompey scoop top award! Fratton Arena nearly ranked in top 50 Premier League grounds of all time.

Vic is da man.

He had one task at Spurs last season, to improve on Redknapp and Sherwood by going top four. He failed, so they continue to live in the shadows of their neighbour. Hopefully he repeats that stunt, but frankly I'm more interested in what we are up to.

It might look smalltime but that's not any old furniture - that's the original table tennis table from HMS Victory, the one that Nelson and Hardy played upon as cannon balls and splintered wood rained down around them off Trafalgar. And those screens are from Kennedy Space Centre and were used in the historic Apollo 11 mission to put man on the moon, while the floor has been laid using wooden planks from Noah's Ark. You guys are too quick to judge - cos you're jealous!

It's a village hall on youth club night! Though I have to say for a caravan it looks pretty spacious and an ability to play table tennis when the building is being towed must help with balance and coordination.

I believe it's called having fun... Perhaps those who don't really enjoy having fun should give it a wide berth and save energy for their next kneejerk post match inquest, everyone else can enjoy it for what it is - some mildly-talented extroverts doing their thang in a comic manner.

That's a lot of advertising, when the paintjob still hasn't been approved by the main investor in the build project...no doubt the majority of the sponsorship money will be passed directly back to cover the grant. Probably with interest and an apology.

That can't be right, there's something fishy going on...

Good stage today. The French couldn't police a rowdy meeting of the WI let alone do crowd control at a sporting event - the scenes on the final climb today were ridiculous, luckily Sky were shrewd enough to send their Dutchman up first through the Orange corner. How are the authorities getting on with arresting the bloke identified yesterday spitting on Froome? Won't hold my breath. And well done to the rest of the Sky riders for the shift they put in today. Now I just await the results of Nibali's blood test from yesterday.

Three slight hitches that might halt the world's bestest sporting investment getting a new investor... 1. There is nothing worth investing in. 2. They don't want to sell. 3. They've landlocked themselves for a tenner.

Looks like the deluded nutters are emerging from their bunkers.....

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.