Torres

I for one am amazed that no clubs in League 1 want to take players from a team struggling in 17th position in League 2, 5 points above the relegation spots. Amazed, I tells ya.

Gary Neville had it spot on this evening on Sky when he said that we wouldn't finish in the top 4 this season because our squad is lacking the character and work ethic that only comes from having to clear the training pitches of dog poo before every session. If only we were more like Pompey.

And their car park is newer than ours. I'm soooooo jealous.

http://m.portsmouth.co.uk/sport/pompey/awford-dismisses-big-spending-claims-1-6512856 Seriously, it's like we've stumbled into a wormhole and travelled back in time. I especially like "We haven’t broken any wage structures or anything like that. No chance. We’re not allowed to do that here." They were under special conditions imposed by the FL and "weren't allowed" to do it last time they did it and ended up in Administration again. Nice bit of brown nosing of the Chief Executive too. Almost like he was doing a bad job and might be in danger of being fired......

I'd feel pretty safe in saying that the 12 members of the jury who listened to evidence from both sides in a trial lasting 9 days have a better idea of what happened than pretty much anyone else, so without spending equal time "looking at the case" it's probably worth accepting their verdict.

It's funny really - all this noise about Hinchingbrooke being privately run, Circle pulling out, bad reports from the care quality commission etc etc and yet nobody in the media or any politicians have mentioned that it's where I had my tonsils taken out.

Oh, absolutely. As funny as it would be in the short term if Tesco did decide that they didn't want to be located next to that **** heap, in the long term it's much, much worse for them to be totally locked into that tiny site.

Might mean that the club could use some of its massive cash reserves to buy the land back and finally deliver the much needed expansion of Fratton Park.

Tesco announce this morning that they're to close 43 stores and cancel the opening of another 49.

He and Agent Connolly can compare notes on Saints to pass the time on the treatment table.

This is about the fifth version of the club since then though...

Shoe-horned into the left side of a flat midfield 4?

Also, I actually just laughed out loud at the "personality" quotes: https://yougov.co.uk/profiler#/Portsmouth_F_C/personality I manage my finances well. Interesting too that your average Skate shops at Lidl whilst your average Saints shops at Waitrose

Let's hope they don't need to rattle those buckets any more any time soon as it doesn't appear that your average Skate has a lot of cash to spare: https://yougov.co.uk/profiler#/Portsmouth_F_C/demographics Although, with their #1 typical profession being sitting around at home or in the garden, I'm not that surprised. Maybe if they get into trouble again they could tap us up for a few quid: https://yougov.co.uk/profiler#/Southampton_F_C/demographics

It'll end with Awful being sacked and replaced by someone else who will proclaim it a dream come true to manage the biggest club in world football with the bestest fans ever known.

So, ignoring all the debt incurred since April 2013 and the fact that the Trust now controls just 48% of the total shareholding, this fan-owned club is indeed now debt free. Well done them.

"Legacy" debt free, eh?

BBC website doing a great derby moments poll but I've seen no mention of Norris's last minute winner against us that both stopped us getting promoted and saved them from relegation. Strange...

It's best to keep the wasp in the cup....

Didn't they reach their funding target quite suddenly at the last minute despite seeming to be quite a way short?

Isn't that article really just about how **** poor the QPR turnout was for that game?

I wouldn't blow too much smoke up the arses of the board. £10m seems to have been wasted on Mane as he can't force his way onto the bench, let alone the starting 11, and Alderweirald has such a poor injury record that he's missed 50% of games injured - did we even give him a medical?

The mayor of Liverpool was on R5 this morning calling for huge amounts of power to be devolved to him because he knows what Liverpool needs. He wanted to keep all the tax revenue from Liverpool (and to hell with rural areas on the edges of the region, presumably) and set up some sort of socialist Republic. Scary stuff but probably music to Pap's ears. Not even sure it wasn't pap, tbh...