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Christ, we're gong to have to be careful, that thread's liable to be longer than Pompey Takeover Saga by next weekend!

Say no to 0870 gives 0161 705 5000 as office switchboard and ask for customer services. May not be open tonight. Only other one is 0800 0321402. Good luck I'm off out so can't help any more tonight.

Bit on here suggesting 25% os US households had one by 1986. I would guess we were a couple of years or so behind. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microwave_ovens

Sums up the Daily Wail and Grauniad to a tee.

Same here - living close to the ground I can pick up on the day, only need a couple of hours notice too so if one of your party drops out one the day.............. - 0788 621 0284 Thanks in advance

Yep, just driven through Eastbourne and at least 3 grocery stores open and all seemingly doing trade this morning.

Yueltide felicitations to one and all.

Fortnightly

Very funny - reminds me of the old Mike Hunt phone call in Porkys

Bloody Guly. Gonna be a long final 7 minutes

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Appears to have gone very quiet inside Nottarf Krap

Beauty

Boom boom

Great try there

Wish TCWTB would stop ringing that bell, starting to get on my nerves

Quiet on here - am I the only one not there?

Here we go!

Just over £50M of debt touted in the article. Bit north of what's been guessed at on here, but who's going to argue over 10% either way. Selling one company to invest capital in the club sounds 'inexorably linked' to someone as simple as me.

So no extradition until the end of May at the earliest.

Just reading that article myself, bit that got me was ''Roman Dubov, a director of CSI, said the Football League spent “at least one to two months” to check Antonov’s credentials and found nothing wrong. '' 4 to 8 weeks looking at Antonov and no alarm bells rung???

Doesn't it actually mean that it's the responsibility of the Administrator and he'll get a pittance in the £?

Sport Football Portsmouth Portsmouth players may go without pay says Andrew Andronikou • Administrator bemoans 'uncertain economic environment' • Gordon Taylor hopes player's will not go without pay reddit this Jamie Jackson guardian.co.uk, Thursday 15 December 2011 20.06 GMT Article history N****wo Kanu The Portsmouth squad including the striker N****wo Kanu, centre, face the prospect of not being paid in January. Photograph: Frances Leader/Action Images Portsmouth players could face an unhappy new year after one of the administrators looking after the club's parent company admitted that there is no guarantee that their wages will be paid next month. Portsmouth's fate is again in the balance after the arrest of Vladimir Antonov, the owner, who faces an extradition hearing on Friday in central London. Regarding the players' salaries Andrew Andronikou, who is the joint administrator of Convers Sports Initiatives (CSI), the company which owns Portsmouth, and who handled the club's administration last year, said: "There is no problem currently – the players will be paid this month but beyond that into January and the new year, who knows? This is a very uncertain economic environment at the moment." From November 2009 until February 2010, when the club were owned by first Sulaimain al-Fahim and then Ali al-Faraj, Portsmouth's players were not paid on the correct due date, and the Professional Footballers' Association is again monitoring the situation. Gordon Taylor, the PFA's chief executive, said: "We are aware of the financial problems of the club and the consequent problems we've had with players there with monies being paid. They've already been through it once, so I'm hoping that's not repeated. It's just at the moment us keeping a watching brief – it's no good saying it is a good situation. This is one more amber light at the moment, we are hoping that things turned out [OK]." Antonov is due at the City of Westminster magistrates court as Lithuania is demanding he be extradited following his arrest for alleged large-scale bank fraud and forgery, which he denies. CSI, which is 80% owned by Antonov, is in administration and Andronikou has been appointed the joint-administrator, with Peter Kubik, and is looking for buyers for its nine sporting entities, including Portsmouth. Andronikou is insistent that whether or not Antonov is extradited, there will be no material affect on Portsmouth and he stated that there has already been far more interest in buying the club than when he handled the £120m administration last year. "There are several interested parties and we are trying to establish [the best of these]," he said. "It is easier than last year as the club is far cleaner and there are no skeletons and I know the club inside out. What we need to do at the moment is establish some working capital." No skeletons - PMSL

Oh good, drags the pain out another few months.

Not necessarily, twice as large doesn't mean twice the gravity. Depends what it's made of.