JackFrost

Man U lose 2-1 to FC Basle and Napoli beat Villarreal to knock Man City out.

Toss up between Pele, Maradona, Messi, Ricky Lambert and Richard Chaplow. .

I think the hole Corp has dug for himself reached a mineshaft in Australia when anothersaintinsouthsea first posted the 'best of corp ho' quotes a while back. Now I believe the hole is around 3 light years into outer space

There may be a fairway to go before their satisfied with doing that

Final score AFC Totton 1-6 Bristol Rovers Disgraceful by that Totton coach in the first half

Signed him for Garforth Town. Socrates, one of the true greats

Brown was far worse than Cameron currently is. Blair got some things spot on but was essentially a scheming crook. I'd rate Cameron about the same as Major at the moment. Pretty mediocre.

Ukraine playing on home turf won't be easy

not bad posting useful links up either

Only if Chainrai puts them into voluntary liquidation. The courts won't wind them up otherwise, they'll just keep giving them chance after chance after chance. Too much murky politics and publicity involved for any judge to decide against Pompey's favour in a straight fight. As football stands at the moment, publicity, money and politics dictate that from the PL to about League 1 English football clubs are above the law

Appleton's appointment fascinates me though, they did go for the cheap option there. We were all predicting Ancelotti or maybe poaching Mourinho from Real Madrid but they ended up with a coach from WBA and loaning a couple of youngsters. A sign of things to come? Their current squad will remain because until their contracts expire they can't shift them, which was the same problem we had with Raziak. Above all their finances are shot, and a large proportion of their squad is the wrong side of 30. They will not attract a serious buyer for a very long time and will only attract chancers and tyre-kickers and criminals. Being a English football club in the top few divisions means they are above the law so they'll never be wound up by the courts. It all depends on what Chainrai's long term motives are and how much money he is willing to gamble/loan the club before he can find someone with enough money and stupidity. Also you say their 'only' x points off the play-offs, last time I looked they were only above the relegation zone on goal difference. They've got years of struggle to come, and as the current trend starts to appear, years of reckless overspending to come to go slightly backwards year on year

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"It will have to be decided whether CSI and Portsmouth were effectively run as one "economic entity," insolvency lawyer Guy Thomas of Taylor Walton told BBC Sport. "The penalty - ranging between 10 and 25 points - will depend on the outcome of that review. "Pompey will have its chance to put their case but on balance I wouldn't hold out much hope that the club will avoid at least a 10-point deduction," added Thomas It appears we're going to see just how much balls the FL has

Are we sure this thread shouldn't be closed now?

So according to Peter Storrie maths, they should make a tidy profit this year

Was our best player earlier in the season. Has faded a bit lately although some of that seems to be down to being overshadowed by Chaplow's recent form. Seems to be since when Adkins first rested him

Doubt it, I don't see many people mentioning Tony Pulis as the next England manager. . .

If Antonov remains at large my one fear is this thread will turn into another Paul Allen-style "Where's Antonov's yacht parked" thread

isn't it time to close this thread now?

According to wikipedia he lives in Emsworth but is a Palace fan

It definitely can be taught, Barcelona prove that. Their as good off the ball as they are on it. The same concept probably applies to us at the moment except the quality of our squad is nowhere near Barcelona's. Chaplow and Lambert aside obviously

apart from the top 7 or 8 I think we could compete with the other teams in the PL. I think Lambert is good enough. We'd need one or two quality signings (maybe raiding the Barcelona B team for a couple of their players?) but I think we could compete. But let's not get ahead of ourselves, there's a long, long way to go in this season yet. Interestingly, one more win and we'll match the points total that the championship's relegated teams last year achieved in the whole season

I noticed this thread but until seeing the article on the BBC I had no idea this was actually somebody's name!

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Hm Pompey appoint 'the cheap option' as their new manager, then the bank Antonov owns goes into admin a short while later