Guided Missile

The genius that Chanrai hired as an administrator has informed the Portsmouth Supporters Trust of the level of debts and I quote: 2. What is the size of the debt? Total debt now £100m, broken down as:- £22m Football Creditors, £32m Gaydamak Trust, £5m Suliman Al Fahim, £18m Al Faraj, £5m General eg local traders, £17-18m HMRC (although £9m of this is disputed vat payment), £16-17m Football Creditors, £14m approx Portpin, £8-9m Football Agents. Those economists amongst us may be able to spot the minor mathematical error, i.e. the above figures add up to around £138M. Read more from the Q & A session here. The guys a buffoon and the Pompey Trust lapped it up... ....seat on the board, anyone?

Although this thread has been diverting fun for those of us that sometimes have nothing better to do, does anyone else feel like I do? I have zero feelings for Portsmouth Football Club. They disappeared during my trip to Fratton Park at the time of the famous riot, when I could see first hand where mindless, misdirected passion takes you. From middle aged men keeping hold of the ball for throw-ins, whilst screaming obscenities at our players to 10 year old "fans" throwing stones at the police and trashing their own neighbourhood, it didn't take a genius to see how close to the middle ages a "civilised" group could get. Whether Portsmouth recover and rebound or sink and cease to exist, it will not affect in the slightest my life, with respect to football. Blind hatred usually takes you in one direction and not the direction that we find ourselves in. This thread is like a quick glance over to the other side of the M27, on the way out of Pompey, looking at a car crash. Morbidly interesting at first, but when arriving back in God's country, you find it involved a prison van full of peodophiles and any sympathy disappears, to be replaced by "Who gives a sh !t as long as no one else got badly hurt"...

I am a stupid ****... ...sorry about that. Thoughtless post whilst under the influence...

Let's see just how many Saints fans give a sh !t about this... ...10 years ago, you zeroes would have been forced the rely on a copy of the Pink, sent over by your Mum, for match highlights. You left for the money/weather. Live with the consequences...

It looks like a number of Pompey players will be taking an early summer break, according to this article. It is one of the most extraordinary and bizarre scenarios ever to confront an FA Cup semi-final team. Andronikou added: "This affects five or six players who will not be allowed to play after the semi-final, and one who might not be allowed to play in the semi-final. "This all revolves around clauses in their current contracts which mean that the semi-final triggers a set number of games that either means the player is entitled, automatically, to have his contract renewed for next season, or that it triggers a variety of cash payments ranging from £100,000 to £50,000. "So, if a player plays at Wembley he would trigger a new contract the club cannot afford, or if he reaches 20 or 25 games, it triggers cash payments, some of £100,000. These bullet payments means that they can play in the semi-final, but not play another game after it, unless they waiver those payments."

As has the RoE in the US military since that video was taken...

HTH

Rob Lloyd the proposed new owner of Portsmouth City Football Club has made his first television interview since his bid for the club was accepted by the administrator. Speaking to Sky Sports News, Mr. Lloyd was asked what his background is and who was behind his consortium. He told the programme... 'I was trained by Xerox, many many many years ago. I'm a business strategist, many people say I'm a photocopying salesman, which I always find quite amusing.' 'I actually have been in the past,been heavily involved in the fitting out of Southampton football club stadium. Obviously I have an IT background, sales background, but also I have had involvement at Southampton Academy and scouting for many, many years.' 'To give you an instance I was involved in the scouting of Adam Lallana from Bournemouth sadly, to Southampton.' 'I have many, many contacts in football, I have many contacts abroad as well, in American MLS football as well as in Dubai.' 'So it's a mixture of many many things, all put together with a vision for a football club and we are going to drop the blueprint into here, but all will be revealed.' When asked if it was his money he was investing in Portsmouth City Football Club, Lloyd smiled and said... 'It is a consortium' When pushed on who is in the consortium, he added... 'That is, something that really and honestly will never be answered properly and completely, but the truth of the matter is, there will be answers to that to an extent in tomorrow's (Wednesday) press conference.' :smt043

I really don't find the video that surprising, in the circumstances in Iraq back in 2007. Neither do I find it surprising that there is a simultaneous outpouring of anti-American, anti-war, anti-military and self righteous indignation on this site. When terrorism hit our capital in 2005, our metropolitan police force had a shoot to kill practice which led to the Jean Charles de Menezes killing. The US hardly has a monopoly on trigger happy killing of innocent civilians. Sh !t happens...

...was nearly a year ago, IMO. This article pins down the date that a group of nonentities, led by a Liverpool supporting dreamer, successfully damaged the reputation of a Saints legend, extracted £500K out of Lymington businessman and delayed the real takeover, so that the club had little time to prepare for the season ahead. So....if you're looking for a scapegoat, start in Locks Heath. PS, Mute your PC speakers, prior to opening the link.

You won't get an answer. He's out shopping with the missus...

...or in the case of Wotton, donkeys...

Sorry for that mistake, Fritz. Obviously the name "Connolly" is Austrian German for "Waigo and Barnard". I shall be more careful in the future, on the rare occassions I read your depressing and obviously desparate cries for Anglo-Saxon discourse, that are your posts.

Obviously when you questioned the fact that Pardew didn't have a choice in who he selected, in particular, Connolly. You really should practice your native language more, Fritz...

HTH

The joke was that our former chairman had a few pints with some anoraks, ignoring the customary pre-match socialising with his Derby County counterpart....classy....

...and here are some of the best: "It is very rare I am lost for words but I saw the statue last week and it is awesome - a tremendous tribute to a great man. Fans have waited a long time for this and it is going to be fantastic. I really believe it will be the best football statue anywhere both in size and the amount of detail" "I can't wait to give Matt the keys to his office and say Matt off you go - get to work." ...and further quips: “I have seen stories myself and clearly they are a very cursory look into the background of the individual concerned. As far as I am aware that individual is from a substantially wealthy family." “Let’s be very clear, if the club goes into administration the club will be deducted 10 points. But if the holding company goes into administration then they won’t be.” "The Wilde team will formally recognise The Saints Trust as the official point of contact with supporters. They will reserve a position on the Football Club Board for a supporters representative." "Saints trust members enjoying a pre match drink on Saturday before the game with Derby County were surprised to see a familiar face at the bar. Saints Trust members and their guests have been enjoying the hospitality of the pre match venue for the Trust at the Solent University Students Union as often promoted on this site, and it's becoming popular with members of the regional supporters groups. On Saturday, many members of the Jersey Saints branch were visiting and so it was that the highest profile Jersey resident, in Saints fans eyes anyway, after bumping into them at the airport came along for a drink. It wasn't just a cosmetic exercise with the Chairman looking to score a few PR points either, arriving at 12.15 he stayed and chatted with anyone who wanted to speak to him, eventually leaving just before 2pm." "Prior to and immediately following the momentous events of last summer, which culminated in several new appointments to the boards of SLH and SFC, Michael (Wilde) led the initiative to secure the new investment monies necessary to ensure the long-term financial stability of Southampton Football Club.He has been unsuccessful in those endeavours and no new investment funds have been injected into the business during the course of his tenure as a director and Vice Chairman of SLH. In consequence of this, the board reassigned the task of raising new funds to other directors of SLH." You've gotta larf...

Look at the headline.... And then see who wrote article. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article7065824.ece

A temporary posting overseas to fight for Queen and country is hardly the same as emigrating to Spain, to catch a few rays and drink sangria, while moaning about the general state of our club and country.

Just noticed this on 606. During my Tour of duty which ended early due to me being wounded by an IED , I was on patrol one day in this village on the outskirts of the Kajaki District . When we drove past these kids playing football , You have to keep your eye on them as some of them are in line with the Taliban , but my attention was taken by these 2 kids wearing Pompey shirts one with kanu and one with campbell on the back. I was tempted to get out and try and convert them to saints by giving them my Southampton vest , which i wore everywhere , but thats how people get killed. 3 weeks later , on a foot patrol . i saw another kid with a Pompey shirt , i went up to him pulled off my jacket ( i was being covered at all times obviously) and showed him the Southampton crest . the little boy see's it , swears blindly at me and runs away. I thought i had scared him, but he comes back with his dad who calls me a scummer! it was quite a sight seeing the pompey fans out there , and brought back many home memories of the south coast . im just asking would anyone know why there was a popularity for Pompey out there? anyway sorry to see you in this state , and i hope one day we both will be back in the prem beating you of course Surely Pompey are only popular in Afghanistan because of the crest??? Top Saints poster, BTW...

What would have happened to us, if this had been possible? Crisis club Portsmouth have been told their Premier League hand-out money MUST go to the club's anxious creditors. Pompey administrator Andrew Andronikou is sorting out figures with senior league officials and has up to £37million in advance payments available to him. However, the Premier League will only give Pompey their TV money and parachute payments now if that cash goes to the people on their creditors' list and is not used for other purposes. That demand is one of the key elements of the offer and leaves Pompey's administrator to decide how much he needs to dip into in order to do a deal with the tax man among others. Rumours of a 30p-in-the-pound deal have been circulating - traced back to Fratton Park sources - and that would mean around £24-£25m advanced from the Premier League. But insiders reveal that Pompey have yet to ask for anything like that much and would ideally like to leave as much of the parachute payments for a later date as possible

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Just picked up some interesting information. Apparently, despite a BBC analysis showing that Pompey could expect to receive £26m in outstanding transfer fees over the coming two years, UHC Hacker Young are putting the figure at £0.5m. Let's face it, the club is worth the square root of f*** all and no-one outside an asylum will buy them....

I think the bigger news is that the HMRC case against him is in his capacity of CEO rather than a personal tax issue. That'll be a 20 point deduction, then...

Arkadi Gaydamak...