JackFrost

and falling straight into another one

It'll be all the socialists fault

As far as I'm concerned it is merely PR. I don't think it even exists.

We'll only bomb such regimes if we don't have significant commercial interests to lose. (That's putting aside the strategic feasibility of it) It's like when the western world praises Aung San Suu Kyi and rightly so, whilst the French government props up the military junta through Total oil and opposes sanctions. If it wasn't so tragic it would be amusing. There's a lot of evil in the world, but it's money that ultimately decides if we turn a blind eye to it or not.

US supports many brutal regimes around the world that do similar things. Depends on commercial interests.

he was unbeaten in 10 of the 14 games with Saints. that's pretty impressive at any level. You can twist the statistics whichever way you like but at the end of the day he made us very hard to beat, despite the squad being completely disinterested when he took over and the club was plummeting down the league. Most of our squad at that time didn't give a **** whether we went down or not

Anyway, back to Cortese

It must be even simpler than that considering Al-Faraj passed it. . .

Yeah have heard similar things about the multiplayer. You'll need to pay a subscription to get extras

Why not? Pompey have shown everyone how to do it with little punishment and the footballing authorities have so far set a very worrying precedent. Chester were in the Conference (5th tier) when they went bust, it appears they were just small enough to be accountable to the law unfortunately. Unless there are massive changes in how English football and even FIFA are run and whilst all the murky politics and Sky are lurking, the relatively big English clubs will all get bailed out one by one, over and over again.

I've pointed out Pearsons good interviews but I agree a manager shouldn't be recruited purely on the basis on them. My point was his interviews were a reason so many of us took to him and why he got so much praise. For the fans his no-nonsense, tell-it-like-it-is interviews were a highly refreshing change from the pathetic excuses Burley trawled along with game after game. All good post match interviews do are to help endear yourself to the fans, but the way the players attitudes improved soon after he took over it was evident he'd done the same to the players and had told them to get their act together. I think many of us appreciated Pearson because he had forced the players to make an effort after the run of completely disinterested performances they'd given us at that time. Bad performances are bad enough but not making an effort is nothing short of appalling. Even if the results on paper weren't great I think Pearson endeared himself to a lot of people in this way especially when he did enough to keep us up, with a playing squad that had recently not cared whether we'd gone down or not.

His name wasn't "Anthony Pulis" by any chance was it?

'Dalek' is actually a very relevant username for you

Having been in the top half earlier in the season under Burley's win 4, lose 4 management with our best players here. We were in freefall when NP took over after Dodd and Gorman had been in charge. how many of those under Dodd and Gorman in the league? 0 as far as i can remember I'm not entirely disagreeing with you here but I think Pearson's overall record on results was ok in the circumstances considering we were in freefall when he took over, confidence was rock bottom, our best players who had played earlier in the season had been loaned out, and the entire squad and even our most committed players were looking completely disinterested and didn't want to be here. What Pearson did do was bang heads together and turn a disinterested playing squad into something that resembled a Championship football team. His down-to-earth/no-nonsense interviews were also a refreshing change from the drivel that Burley churned out week after week. The football he played wasn't pretty but it was the best he could do in the circumstances. Also just before Pearson took over, it was a time of such depression and doom that we had reports of Jason Dodd saying that he wanted the manager's job permanently. Pearson's results may have looked very mediocre on paper but I thought Pearson did a good job with very limited resources and I thought he deserved a chance to manage us the following season. But as we know, Lowe wasn't having any of it.

like they did when Chainrai took over? I don't know what your expecting or what in your book "isn't getting away with it". There's absolutely no way the courts will ever liquidate them as they are a English football club in the top 3-4 divisions in the 21st century, and are therefore above the law. The only chance of them being liquidated is if Chainrai decides building a supermarket or flats on Fratton Park is the best way he can get his money back. As for the Russians taking over, there's only two reasons why it would make any financial sense to take Pompey over. 1) If their stupid or far more likely 2) They have tens of millions of pounds to launder. Like Mr Gaydamak had a few years ago. . .

Considering Luton were only deducted 10 points for around 50 separate charges relating to tax misdemeanors (the other 20 were for failing to agree a CVA), and Storrie only has to answer for what 2? a points deduction like that will never happen as a result of Storrie's court case.

I think people took to Pearson initially because of the way he came across in his interviews. His straight-to-the-point interviews were a refreshing change from the pathetic excuses and repetitive waffle that Burley used to come out with time after time. Also, at the end of the day Pearson kept us up when we were in freefall after our high earners had been loaned out and we'd gone through the disastrous spell with Dodd and Gorman in charge. Would he have kept us up the following year? We'll never know but there were many of us who believed he at least deserved a chance

You've just answered your own question. Why would the world's biggest TV company that heavily relies on people paying for it's services, produce an event and then broadcast it free?

So that's who Pompey are modelling themselves on

Just watched it on the BBC website. He's basically saying he thinks it's a joke that other drivers try to defend their positions and stop him from overtaking. Who the hell does he think he is?

Oh the irony

English players who started for Utd - 3 Spanish players who started for Barce - 7 (and it would have been 8 if Puyol was fully fit)

What happened? Was it a load of smugness accompanied by delusion of Cotterill standards about how everyone kept driving into the front of his car? Or was it interrupted by Massa and/or Maldonado halfway through?

Hang on mine is back up again

Yep it's down for me as well, just noticed in the last 10 mins. Absolute joke