From the News comments re-Appleton's threat to Kanu.
Helio
3:47 PM on 10/07/2012
DunKirk - With respect, I think there are two massive mistakes in your thinking.
- First, if Kanu gets his money, then he has got what he is contractually entitled to. If PFC doesn't pay Kanu what he is contractually entitled to, then it's PFC and not Kanu that will have "got away with it".
Is that a good lesson for the youngsters? - "Don't bother about written promises, you can break them whenever it suits you..."
- Second, PFC (to my undying shame, as a Pompey supporter) has "got away with" writing off more than £100 million in debts to creditors. It has failed in recent years to honour so many contracts that we'd need a month to read up on them all. But now Appy, working for PFC, tells us solemnly that if you make a contract, you've got to keep it. That's pot-kettle-black...
http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/sport/pompey/pompey-past/ready-to-act-1-4037165