OldNick

How can the HMRC stand by and yet again allow the possibility of the taxpayer losing out? At present the club has some assets to pay the money owed. if they leave it too much longer yet again the taxpayer will lose out. PFC have taken the money in (our money) and spent it on new recruits and staff etc, it is scandalous

it still amazes me that they are in this position and can turn down £1m offers. The 2 don't add up, but nothing does with Pompey. We did it the honorable way and sold our assets, somehow they keep getting away with it.

they turned down £1m for 2 players a few days ago. They cannot be that close to folding. It is all a game to get the FL to waive the points penalty. They have them by the short and curlies, they know that if 10 points is deducted the club will be double worthless. The league will argue that it is the 'football family' lol and so we have to stand together etcetc etc

I suspect he will be saying that you waive the points penalty or he pulls out and then the club will go out of business. It is how the club have operated for the last couple of years. They know that the PL and FL will do anything to stop a club going out of business during a season as that causes chaos. Like ESB , and now Steve Wilson I have also banged on about the football authorities not wanting the can of worms opened. The tentacles of corruption and cash payments could go to the most senior people in world football. Too much money went missing.

Perhaps it is better to read about the satellite dish

instead of reading about your friggin satelite I thought the thread is Pakistan v England!! Whats the score?

Fantastic, not mental

He has indicated he would invest £20m before studying plans to float Portsmouth in New York. Lol, anyone got a toprpedo?

So how much money would Brian Howe have? I assume he is the lead singer of Bad Company, not a major name and so i doubt he would have untold millions.Of course he may have made a lot of money in investments

I understand the boring bit but I also get boredof being told they are toast, is 2 or 3 years now? Each and every time (my hero apparently) AA has made rings around all the educated on here. I would love them to be toasted to a frazzle but you are dealing with people who know all the dodges and have been 3 steps ahead of all the predictions I have read on here. They havent even had a points deduction, even after all the conflicting quotes AA puts out! I have been banging on about the FA and other wold football associations IMO desperately not wanting the true facts to come out. When Pompey are toast I will be delighted to buy you a drink to celebrate but until then I expect to be frustrated again by some very clever operators.

thats more caps then Vince Hilaire, Alan Biley and many of your other heroes ever had Lol. of course during the lets 'lets rob the Cancer charity' tour, that lasted 5 years or so you had loads of International stars in your squad lol

I think Chanrai lives in HK, perhaps the new Chinese interest could be put down to him or 1 of his cohorts.It seems the posters on here are shouting into the wind, as time and again AA seems to find a new way of keeping the wolves at bay. The FL as usual do nothing and just let things roll along.

WHU can say the same as us, that if they had not mucked up they could be clear. A real let off and lets hope we push on

Im sure most of us have felt all along that the squad needed strengthening. It has been all so apparent when RL and RC have been out. It would be nioce if the club were positive and signed a couple of players as soon as the window opens, and not wait for the last minutes of the window closing again. i do realise that they do so to get the price down but I believe we are at a crucial stage of the clubs upward climb. Fingers crossed.

Will Forest buy their players and so give them funds, that in turn keep them from getting a minus 10 point deduction? or buy a couple of their players in the hope that the players may get them some points? Difficult call, also I read somewhere that Forest had run out of money anyway

The time slot it is put on is the reason viewing figures are so low. By the time MotD has come on and gone iam too tired to watch the FLS. They have tried to make the show too trendy when really all fans want to see is the action and a little bot of opinion. As for Hansen getting 40k a programme, it shows how bloated and wasteful the BEEB is. Even the radio shows are about personality rather than the music, eg The Chris Moyles show, all about him, the Syeve Wright show ditto etc etc.

Lol, i know it is absurd, but it did come from somebody so close to him, i thought i would put it up. You'll all be licking out of my hands when it comes to fruition......lol

I know it is laughable and don't shoot the messenger. Came from a member of his close family,between us and Brum apparently I am very sceptical but this person should know!!! i wouldn't post this if it had been from mate in the pub. He is in his 30's and whilst did a good job before I dont think he would be up to it now, but strange things do happen. i would have thought we would be aiming higher but!!! He is a free agent.

He has done more for the country than you will do. Ok he has had the trappings of royalty but i doubt if many of us would want to do engagements every day when you are in your 90's and have to shake hands and be pleasant to the likes of you. You should be ashamed but of course you wont be

I suppose if you were a good boy mummy would bring you out a bag of crisps to have with your coke. I can't help thinking you at a work drinks do like David Brent and the others taking the p### out of your lack of knowledge of all things, and raising their eyebrows as you started on about Pompey

i can't see what the fuss is about, what has PFC now to do with the proud tradition of Portsmouth Football club from the 1940's...... afterall there have been at least 3 companies (perhaps 4 pretty soon lol)since and so have no ties to the past

it is not about me personally, as Im able to look after myself to a degree. I would not expect to walk down Goldsmith ave abusing Pompey fans and not get abuse back and perhaps worse. The civil liberties argument is interesting, as what about non football fans who wish to go about their daily business but have to hide away or live in fear of rampaging football fans. Local people will be very happy how things went, and in time the police costs can be downgraded as both sets of supporters will know that you cant have a go and so will file into games like any other and just trade insults across the divides. As for indictment of modern society, surely the real aggro many of us witnessed in the late 60-70-early 80's showed the past as worse than now.

yeah i remember that feeling of 84, it still sends a tingle down the spine when I watch the last few minutes and when we score, but that still doesnt cover the fact that the normal man in the street who is not a football fan gets terrorised by groups of fans who have lost all sense of reason on such days. I have no pride when i recall seeing woman and kids cowering in doorways as a group of Saints fans looking for trouble passed by. They would have been safe of course but they weren't sure. The bubble didnt stop fans hurling obsenities at each other in the ground though.Perhaps the bubble made it more accessible for families to go and so dilute the 'lad' element in the crowd, but all games when the tickets are only released to S/t holders etc did that anyway. Do you recall in the 90's when Pompey were in the old 1st division they came to the Dell and we sold only tickets to S/t holders and members on the fear of trouble ? The home section was not full and it was normal football supporters in our part, and the atmosphere was dull.So it is not the first time. The walk down Goldsmiths would only be by escort at the cost of hundreds of Police, yes an adrenaline rush perhaps but sooner or later there would be a fatality and that could never be brushed over. I assume when you do talk of walking down Goldsmiths it was in an escort, i did it in 84 when there wasn't but the police soon learn t they couldnt do that again. I can go without having a drink before and during the game, it was harsh that they let the Pompey fans have a drink, and perhaps they were more up for it due to that, but the cameras showed as they went around the ground that the majority of them should have arrived in a bingo bus

The song is not to my taste but if you think that is more embarrassing than having your top fan with his entourage of stripped to the waist hangers on, on national tv, ringing his bell etc, then you have missed the plot yet again. The Fratton end has become far from intimidating now, since you have let Westwood become the leader and focus of the medias attention. It is like a Punch and Judy character in his beach hut on the Southsea beach. The cameras showed the nation the cream of your fans on the day, and it is nothing like the former mob you used to have singing. I found it funny watching a load of grannies grandads with their bottle blond hairstyles trying to intimidate from the Fratton end.Lol

So the buzz is about a few fans being cornered and the s### kicked out of them by 'fans' of either side. It seems to me the 'Buzz' is standing behind a line of police and throwing obscenities at fans of Pompey. I saw too much of it in the late 60-70's to want more. All this women and kids shouldn't be there stuff is bizarre. You may want to go back to class war, rickets and adject poverty for the masses so you can get the working mans game back but like the wind up gramaphone it is rightly a thing of the past. I recall when it was unsafe for females and kids to go into the town centre on matchdays due to the trouble. I loved the buzz of 1984 when we took 6000 to FP and the tense atmosphere, it wasnt about the football it was about where the next coin/brick/attack was likely to come from. I dont want my kids to go through that, and so call me a pussy i vote for the bubble. I hope it was such a success that when they come to SMS it will be used again