Verbal

G_S is either satirising the views of a certain racist on here or he's being the serial plonker-puller that he so expertly is.

Then I guess we all have different reasons for having the views we do about Pompey, despite the fact that they're all sourced to a great extent in the same rivalry. Mine have to do with the hugely damaging consequences of the years of corruption at the club. I don't buy the 'six-fingered, caravan-dwelling' guff as applied to all Pompey supporters, just as I don't buy the argument that the club should be allowed to continue so as 'not to punish' the the fans. But I couldn't care less about what Pompey supporters say on their own site. Just my opinion, and I know it's a minority one.

I've no idea why some of you spend so much time over there.

Even with all the ambiguity, I still think the loopholes aren't big enough to allow the club to stumble through a season. They could have gone some distance into the season in administration, but Birch has set the 10 August deadline. This is different to his other 'cry wolf' deadlines, in that they were about funds running out. This one is about ownership. The football creditors still add up to a substantial bill, and new the new conditions re much less ambiguous when it comes to what Chainrai would have to give up if he were to bid. Liquidation is weeks away at most.

Good to see that the Southampton connection works in getting Category 1 status for others. Huw Jennings' Fulham Academy have just announced they've won accreditation. http://www.fulhamfc.com/Club/News/NewsArticles/2012/July/Category1Status.aspx

The Kanu tribunal almost certainly guarantees that the bill for debts to players will not be known by 10 August. And no one from PFC is yet commenting on the anticipated bill to football creditors - it'll be a comfortable seven-figure sum however this works out.

Kanu (via tribunal), Kitson and especially TBH remain huge contractual and financial roadblocks in avoiding liquidation. This has a few more twists and turns to go before the deadline.

Don't confuse him. He'll only try and head the damn thing.

Loseo?

The Williams comparison is interesting because we're back to the one-touch, short-passing game that worked so well when he was around. Of course, Williams at his best had Ball...

You're thinking of Alfred Binet, who did not use the word in anything like the way our resident racist does. It was the American translator of Binet's work who helped the eugenics movement in the US seize on his verbal reasoning test in order to diagnose 'retardation' as a measure of irretrievable, and genetically determined, mental backwardness These tests were used, for example, to pursue forced sterilisation programmes predominantly against black Americans. Hence, I assume, our little dumb joker's preference for the word.

Oh you're kidding. Really? I was at the race today, and enjoyed it immensely - apart from the defeat of course. I couldn't believe it when the Ukrainian and Columbian tore past on Putney Bridge with no Brits in sight.

That must have been an easy sell to his editor.

I think you forget sometimes that there are still a few people on here who assume you're being serious.

And back to the thread.

Chill out, get something that resembles a life and move on. (If you can - you seem to suffer from some obsessive behavioural problems. Anyway, do the best you can.) Above all, though, don't derail yet another thread with your volcanic, self-defeating spite. Anyway......

What guilt? I just found it embarrassing - not my thing. I don't start pulling out childish insults aimed at people who do, though.

Stormfront are not happy bunnies either.

My point is contained in your last sentence. We should be producing world class players to compete with Spain, et al. How many in that list would qualify as truly world class?

I saw the cyclists whoosh by over Putney Bridge this morning - now THAT was a spectacle, and a lovely carnival atmosphere. Once the sport really gets going, the scars from watching last night will slowly heal.

Are you a schoolboy? If so, we on Saintsweb try and address each other with good manners. Had you not noticed? I've also scoured your post for a list. It must be vast, given your hyperventilations. But I can't find it. So far we have a goalkeeper. Which doesn't quite help with the argument. The broader point stands: the world game has moved on, and we're looking like cement-trapping dinosaurs. The new structure may not be the answer. But something's got to give...

After sleeping on it, I still don't think much differently I'm afraid. But perhaps I'm the wrong audience for these kinds of grand spectacle. When I went to my one and only Andrew Lloyd Webber production I couldn't wait to hit the exit early, such was the toe-curling awfulness of the show (JCS). Still, he's made a vast fortune with this stuff, so what do I know.

Not really. The only good news is it cost less than Andy Carroll.

Correct.

Yes, it's just like reading a history book.