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...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...

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.