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Skates 1-0 down at home.

I doubt they will. Look at Cardiff and Craig Bellamy.

So the latest according to five live this morning is that Milan Mandaric is to make a shock return. Seems the world and his wife are falling over themselves to own them at the moment. In the Star too http://www.dailystar.co.uk/football/view/150862/Milan-Mandaric-s-shock-Portsmouth-return/

I camped five or six years ago on a site overlooking Omaha Beach, in Vierville-Sur-Mer - looks from a quick google like it's called Camping Omaha Beach. Basic but a decent location. Turned up in the middle of August and pitched without a booking. There are plenty of campsites in the area so you ahouldn't have too much trouble finding one. Can't comment on wild camping - might be worth trying the good people over on ukcampsite.co.uk You should have all the time and space you want at any of the cemetries, there's always people there but it's all pretty sombre and you'll have as much or as little time as you want. Would re-iterate that you should do US cemetary at Colville, Arromanche - include the 360 degree cinema up on the hill, UK cemetary at Bayeux - include the town and tapesrty while you are there too. Plus any number of the smaller buerial sites too. Most moving part was swimming with my boys off Omaha Beach thinking what it must have been like for the lads in 1944 in full kit walking ashore. Makes you feel very VERY humble.

Unfortunately, I believe you.

theses a picture on the web somewhere of the guy with a largeish everton one on his back spelt eeverton. If i wasn't at work i'd post a link. Guess it's not too hard to find though.

Only another £4m to raise through player sales then. Trouble is yous manager has been moaning for weeks about how you've only got juniors left in the squad. Looks like one massive hole in the cva at the first hurdle.

Home to Swindon - not bad.

Yes according to pompeylive on twitter. Link here http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/frattonlatest/Chainrai-signs-to-take-over.6474768.jp?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

Totally gutted and my feelings go out to his family. He had only been with us for a year, but what a year. RIP

So, back from 2 weeks away, and missed some 2000 odd posts. However from the scraps I picked up while away, is seems that Nickh was right all along and they have well and truly got away with it?

I've not gone yet! Am hoping for 'they've lost on all counts to HMRC, have not been able to sign any players, despite twhat the local rag has been spouting, and they lost their opening fixture 7-0.

I'm off on holiday for 2 weeks at lunchtime today. Anyone fancy doing a brief precis on 10 August of what i've missed to save me trawling through 14 days worth of posts?

To be fair, the first paragraph states '. court ruled to speed up HM's Revenue and Customs' appeal.' Mind you, can't see it's in AA's interest to speed things along - he's on a hiding to nothing.

Think it'll go further than that, especially when you look at which clubs may actually fall foul of this. Here and abroad. I would guess it would lead to all clubs having to pay all transfer fees upfront. And, to be honest, that's not necessarily a bad thing.

I stand corrected.

Thanks guys. I think we all agree that the football creditors rule is fundamentally flawed, goes against natural justice and should be legislated against. BUT that's the thing - with a case already lost, any silk worth his salt is just going to cite existing case law. Without primary legislation to overturn current case law, I can't see that HMRC has a lot of hope of winning on this point. The image rights arguement may be a winner, as may AA inflating the debts - which he's got previous for - which takes the skates over the 25% necessary to block the CVA.

Let's hope AA can't claim the victory by winning on 2 points out of 3 then.

I was under the impression that HMRC had challenged the football creditors rule before and lost. Why does everyone seem so confident that they will get a more favourable result this time?

question should be 'how confident are they that the FA will clear him to play for them??'

Thanks -glad to see he's as deluded as ever.

any chance of a precis of what he's saying??

Reading some of the comments made the penny seems to have dropped to the blue few at long last. Maybe the local rag should start listening to their readership rather than the bs that aa keeps spouting.

There you go then. Debts £130m+ assets nil. Added to that outgoings exceeding income for the foreseeable future. Can't see anything but liquidation myself.

Like view from the top says, the debt hasn't gone away and so no one can buy the club debt free at the moment. As things stand, the CVA isn't agreed, the debt owed is £130M or whatever it is this week, and there is no agreement to pay this at 20p in the £ over 5 years. The only way the debt can be wiped AFAIK is for it to be paid off; for an agreement to pay off xp in the £ (This is the CVA), or; for the club to liqiudate - and even here, all assetts will presumably go towards paying off the debts. This is where is gets interesting as to who actually owns what - I seem to remember back in the mists of this thread that the land and ground are owned by Gaydamak/Chanari respectively. Which leaves the club's assets as the players and the photocopier, which is why AA is saying that no one gets very much at all if the CVA isn't agreed.