Guided Missile

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...

I'll get me coat...

...Pompey taking 32,000. Nuff' said...

A recap is in order: ...and finally... This post is not about me, but about what a fertile website we have and the valuable resource it provides to bodies like HMRC, BBC and the courts...

I think you'll find it was contained in this document. I like to call it a roadmap to administration and relegation. They tends to happen when you put football first and economics last...

19 Canteen I am willing to assist with some form of cognitive behavioural therapy via this medium, if it would help. I've worked wonders with alpine...

It had an elephant:

Who posted it?

I think people should remember that Fry had 19 "interested" parties for Southampton Leisure plc. That for a company that has a decent 32,000 seater stadium, owed nothing to HMRC and despite a ten point deduction, had no prospect of a Luton type future points deduction. Even then, he struggled to get £13M and that included paying off all the debt. IMO, it'll be a miracle if anything north of £10M is obtained for PFC and that includes the ground and the debt...

If Sol Campbell hadn't tried to save a few bob in tax by getting half his salary paid into a tax haven as image rights, he'd be at the head of the creditors queue, instead of at the back with HMRC. Serves him right, the money grabbing, tax dodger...

Am I the only one that think the ref gave the free kick for a foul by Jaidi on the defender? It look to me like he pushed him out of the way, just before he slotted the ball home...

Ferguson: Not Canadian Sir Alex Ferguson came within a phone call of giving up on a professional football and emigrating to Canada, the knight of the realm revealed today. Amazingly, the Scot, who is the most successful British manager ever, had applied to emigrate as a 22-year-old in 1963 after becoming disillusioned in Scotland. “I was part-time and in a reserve game against Airdrie I broke my eyebrow, cheekbone and nose and was out for months. They put this massive plaster cast on my face,” Ferguson told a group of Glaswegian students this week. “After I came back from the injury I played three reserve games. We lost 8-1, 7-0 and 9-2. I said ‘that’s it – I am finished’. I took out papers to emigrate to Canada. Fu€£ing shame, I say...

If there's no monkey/chicken petting zoo, I'm going to be well p!$$ed off..

You're right. He'd probably have me shot...

During World War II, Markus Liebherr's father served in the engineering corps of the German army, specifically in a unit that built bridges for the German troops in Russia. As such, I guess he owes us, due to the fact that most of the area along the river by St. Marys, was flattened by the Luftwaffe.

HMRC are clearing the decks, IMO. So, they are not bothering to argue the minor point about who the administrator is. They are now, for the sake of argument, agreeing that the appointment of UHY Hacker Young is valid. I think they will want the court, as I have been saying for a while, to question the validity of a number of the transcations between the parties behind the cesspit of a club. Unless the court orders otherwise, any disposal of a company's property, alteration in the status of its members or transfer of shares after the commencement of the winding up petition is void. The purpose of this provision is to preserve the value of the assets of a company for the benefit of persons interested in those assets.

The Times reported the same story this morning. The Times has learnt that Revenue & Customs will accept that his administration is valid after receiving documents requested at a High Court hearing last week. With assurances from the FA that prize money and other revenues from their FA Cup run will not be withheld, and a financial guarantee from Balram Chainrai, the owner, that the club will fulfil their fixtures this season, his attention can now turn to finding a buyer. Look like they've dodged the bullet, this time...

Bad to the bone, me...

As in: GM: "Hi, I'm John. Can I get you a drink?" Sue: "What are you doing? Hitting on me, you misogynist pig?!?" GM: "Actually, I'm the bartender."