Waterside.saint

http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/sport/pompey/pompey-0-york-1-1-5956310 Purple prose from the pen of #factlessallen: 'Saturday’s result against York opened the door for the true severity of the current situation to come barging in bearing its teeth. Forget fantasy talk of a tight table ensuring the club is still in touch with the top-10 – or staging a marvellous late play-off push. While you’re at it, time to stop gazing longingly at Oxford and wishing David Connolly was still at Pompey’s disposal. It’s not going to happen, he’s gone for the remainder of the campaign, face up to it, there’s no recall clause. The combustible veteran who alienated some at Fratton Park on and off the training pitch is not booked to arrive back until the summer.' Sounds as if (in the vacant mind of #factless at any rate) Agent Connolly is still doing a job for us

If even self-confessed skate Claridge says they're doomed, things must indeed be bad for them. In the immortal words of Sergeant Major Williams, 'Oh dear, what a pity, never mind'

They are truly the gift that keeps on giving. Some of their own contributors to the snooze comments pages are starting to admit the (for them) awful truth about what a laughing stock they've become.

Spot the bell end?

This^

http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/sport/pompey/video-pompey-v-york-final-whistle-1-5954435 'Boos greeted the final whistle as Pompey lost 1-0 to York City in their League Two match at Fratton Park.' Shum mishtake shurely?

So looking forward to the FA fining them for coin throwing. #StayClassyPortsmouth

According to http://stats.football365.co.uk/dom/ENG/D3/runin.html #lowlyportsmouth can mathematically climb no higher than 4th. So thats blown their last remaining hope of automatic promotion straight back to the lofty heights of L1 And with only 8 games left, realistically they would have to win at least 5 to reach the play-offs #smalltimeportsmouth

Provided thats not a spoof account his drivellings could be seen as more evidence, if any were needed, of their fitness for the drop zone

Karma's a b!tch, huh?

Well I'm sure #tinpotlessportsmouth could pay that out of small change from their #MassivePortsmouthPromotionWarchest Oh ...

Never fear, I think the karma fairy is about to pay them a long-overdue visit

I've also read numerous comments from #PortsmouthNil fans on the snooze website saying about how they somehow 'deserve better' than Barker. Au contraire, they are in fact getting their just desserts and their current manager is an exact fit for them & their fishy aspirations

I just can't seem to make up my mind whether it would be funnier to see them extinguished or non-league. Decisions, decisions

Please God.

I understand that the Southampton board briefed Agent Connolly regarding their strategy for completing the skates' demise in detail before 'letting him go' as he went deep under cover with #tinpotlessportsmouth

Easy, that point comes after they've dropped through the non-league trapdoor

That whole piece gives the distinct impression that he took them at face value until he got there and, like many before him, discovered in short order what a car crash he'd walked into at #tinpotlessportsmouth. It sounds as if he's embarrassed that he didn't look more closely before allowing his name to be linked with them

Agent Connolly's sealed orders remain, for the time being, a secret between him and the Saints board. Hopefully he will accomplish the undercover mission he accepted at the outset and play a significant, if necessarily discreet, role in completing the skates' downfall

I think they're already panicking, hence their breaking the 'strict playing budget' to boost their 'threadbare' squad several times recently

Plymouth just scored, so happily #lowlyportsmouth are now 12 points south of the play-offs with 9 games left

Jeeze. Its like #factlessallen just spoke his brain. All of it. Poured out in a tireless stream of drivel in pompey pravda because theres yet more where this lot came from and no other paper would print the mindless pap he churns out. Proudly yet badly he writes it in mangled sentences with no commas using small words for the hard of thinking. Yet one sentence per paragraph makes it easier for everyday fishfolk to read. But some fishfolk may miss out because not all have yet learned to read. Their baffled pompey dreams remain strangely unfulfilled. Um. Yet more like the above. Repeat until gullible fishfolk are battered (see what I did there) into readiness for more of exactly the same day after day week after week world without end.

God bless those PPs, without which they would have perished many times over, but which have instead preserved them into an unenviable living death on the margins of the football world, while we look down on them with mingled horror and merriment