TopGun Posted 29 October, 2014 Share Posted 29 October, 2014 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-29821061 It writes itself, really. Indeed. What could be more appropriate? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint in Paradise Posted 30 October, 2014 Share Posted 30 October, 2014 Good grief... http://www.portsmouthfc.co.uk/news/article/happy-birthday-to-chris-johnson-2048628.aspx#fb7csl3KotQBjIGL.99 Can't see anything wrong with that, love does strange things to people even that lot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pamplemousse Posted 30 October, 2014 Share Posted 30 October, 2014 Courtesy of our friends over at POL... :lol: :lol: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The9 Posted 30 October, 2014 Share Posted 30 October, 2014 Can't even spell "vain". Idiots. Also, who knew Stoke had already played the Skates in the tournament? Not me... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Torres Posted 30 October, 2014 Share Posted 30 October, 2014 Courtesy of our friends over at POL... :lol: :lol: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trousers Posted 30 October, 2014 Share Posted 30 October, 2014 Can't even spell "vain". Idiots. Also, who knew Stoke had already played the Skates in the tournament? Not me... And with an away attendance of 894 it would appear that not many Pompey fans* knew about it either (*best fans in the world TM) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moonraker Posted 30 October, 2014 Share Posted 30 October, 2014 And with an away attendance of 894 it would appear that not many Pompey fans* knew about it either (*best fans in the world TM) They obvioulsy didnt get the info from twitter, i noted that SFC 285,000 twitter followers whilst the fishfiddlers have 47,000, but they are the bestest twitter followers in the world. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ericb Posted 30 October, 2014 Share Posted 30 October, 2014 Some of the dumb bastards even think that the other clubs are trying harder to keep them down because their MASSIVE attendances are good for the finances http://fansonline.net/portsmouth/mb/view.php?id=563178 Deluded doesn't quite cut it with that lot does it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trousers Posted 30 October, 2014 Share Posted 30 October, 2014 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/picturegalleries/11197636/The-20-fiercest-rivalries-in-English-football-by-Jonathan-Liew.html It's about rival shipping ports, but then again it's not really. For Portsmouth and Southampton fans, hatred of the other is something that just is, passed on from generation to generation. Yet their divergent fortunes have brought hostilities to an indefinite halt, and they can now bond over a shared dislike of Harry Redknapp. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TopGun Posted 30 October, 2014 Share Posted 30 October, 2014 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/picturegalleries/11197636/The-20-fiercest-rivalries-in-English-football-by-Jonathan-Liew.html 13) Portsmouth v Southampton It's about rival shipping ports, but then again it's not really. For Portsmouth and Southampton fans, hatred of the other is something that just is, passed on from generation to generation. Yet their divergent fortunes have brought hostilities to an indefinite halt, and they can now bond over a shared dislike of Harry Redknapp. Not sure I agree with the last sentiment as there are plenty of f**kwit skates who want Saggy Chops back! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TopGun Posted 31 October, 2014 Share Posted 31 October, 2014 (edited) So, let's just recap a little here. The Tesco deal will mean all is a go-go by 1 November. And it's still on. Despite a Serious Fraud Office investigation into Tesco. And Tesco pulling back in general from superstores. Shovels on site! (learning from Neil Allen about paragraphs and journalism) Edited 31 October, 2014 by TopGun Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatch Posted 31 October, 2014 Share Posted 31 October, 2014 In Todays Sun, Redknapp on Twitter 'I genuinely don't understand it, I've never read it, I don't even know where you get it from' seems to be forgetting the ill-fated Redknapp twitter Q&A last year. He can't open his mouth without lying. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weston Super Saint Posted 31 October, 2014 Share Posted 31 October, 2014 in Portsmouth there is a lack of a 21st century type anything within the city. That's better Short and sweet! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The9 Posted 31 October, 2014 Share Posted 31 October, 2014 Some of the dumb bastards even think that the other clubs are trying harder to keep them down because their MASSIVE attendances are good for the finances http://fansonline.net/portsmouth/mb/view.php?id=563178 Deluded doesn't quite cut it with that lot does it? That is beyond mental. Yeah there's a slight bump in general interest due to their recent Premier League past, but beyond that and their above average League 2 attendances (er, wooh?) they're not given any extra thought. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dark Munster Posted 31 October, 2014 Share Posted 31 October, 2014 In all fairness they tick most of those boxes already so I think I'd be generous enough to give them a full house and the financial benefits for a 10-0 home defeat. Sadly, if it did happen we'd put out a youth team so it would be more like 5-0. Don't forget, unlike his slimy predecessor, our current manager takes cups seriously. 10-0 home defeat it is then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
biondani Posted 1 November, 2014 Share Posted 1 November, 2014 Shock, horror. Championship player doesn't want to play for the biggest fan owned club in the world http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/sport/pompey/pompey-miss-out-on-loan-striker-1-6391236 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OldNick Posted 1 November, 2014 Share Posted 1 November, 2014 Shock, horror. Championship player doesn't want to play for the biggest fan owned club in the world http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/sport/pompey/pompey-miss-out-on-loan-striker-1-6391236 'It’s not just supporters, it is everyone' is that a dig at the chairman who is supposedly at loggerheads with him? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hutch Posted 1 November, 2014 Share Posted 1 November, 2014 It's also nice to see that, although they're not actually looking for a striker, they would take him on because they like him. It's great that money isn't a problem for them any more. Especially now that they've only got 36 in their squad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
St Chalet Posted 1 November, 2014 Share Posted 1 November, 2014 Carlisle bottled their cup final then. Awford swings back towards hero again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OldNick Posted 1 November, 2014 Share Posted 1 November, 2014 Carlisle bottled their cup final then. Awford swings back towards hero again. the bronze workers will be readying to make the statue Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
igsey Posted 1 November, 2014 Share Posted 1 November, 2014 Obligatory birth year post! I'll let you old farts continue, I enjoy keeping up with this thread and the Biggest Fan Owned Club In The Country (If You Exclude Wimbledon) (Trademark). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ohio Saint Posted 2 November, 2014 Share Posted 2 November, 2014 Following Pompey is no fun any more. Too stagnant. They need a new false dawn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goatboy Posted 2 November, 2014 Share Posted 2 November, 2014 Following Pompey is no fun any more. Too stagnant. They need a new false dawn. Don't worry. It's November. The diggers are starting their engines and the Tesco checkout girls are honing their finest 'couldn't give a f**k' scowls. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Bad Bob Posted 2 November, 2014 Share Posted 2 November, 2014 Following Pompey is no fun any more. Too stagnant. They need a new false dawn. Isn't that just what the hovering below the play off places is? Come January the shareholders will be demanding a promotion push, which will involve spending money they don't have our more begging bowl campaigns to "fund" a new player. Plus we have the Tesco is it on/is it off saga. The PST ever decreasing percentage ownership. Every game being a cup final for the opposing team. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mack rill Posted 2 November, 2014 Share Posted 2 November, 2014 the bronze workers will be readying to make the statue Let's hope it's the same t**t you feckers commissioned 1st time, could do with a chuckle, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lazlo78 Posted 3 November, 2014 Share Posted 3 November, 2014 Let's hope it's the same t**t you feckers commissioned 1st time, could do with a chuckle, Statuary... sometimes you end up with Michelangelo's David and other times you end up with a disproportionate Milan Mandaric lookalike... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
St Chalet Posted 3 November, 2014 Share Posted 3 November, 2014 Via @wattsypics "Amazed to hear that the Pompey news is laying off all their photographers and replacing them with reporters with phones #BigMistake" Allen has screwed over the paragraph. Lord knows how bad his pictures will be! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pamplemousse Posted 4 November, 2014 Share Posted 4 November, 2014 Hello all We are pleased to be able to inform you that our 2014 AGM will be held in the Victory Suite at Fratton Park on Monday 8th December 2014. Doors will open at 6.30pm, with the meeting kicking off at 7pm. You can register for the meeting via Eventbrite, here - http://po.st/AGM. Postal notifications will be sent to those members that we don't have an email address for. Whilst we will be taking questions on the night, if you have a question you would like answered by the board, you can email it in advance of the meeting to me - john.kimbell@pompeytrust.com. Please note tickets are limited to one per member and are available to order until 5th December. We look forward to seeing you in December So... who's got some questions they'd like to ask? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goatboy Posted 4 November, 2014 Share Posted 4 November, 2014 Is the light at the end of the tunnel an oncoming train? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rallyboy Posted 4 November, 2014 Share Posted 4 November, 2014 by then they should be able to hold it in the new Tesco conference suite, presumably the footings are nearly finished and they'll be trading by Christmas... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danbert Posted 4 November, 2014 Share Posted 4 November, 2014 No questions, but, if you're going, please try and wind up the fat architect. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danbert Posted 4 November, 2014 Share Posted 4 November, 2014 http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/sport/pompey/awford-mulls-over-fresh-fratton-deals-1-6394702 "Potentially permanent progress could develop, although Awford is aware juggling of the budget is required with all those out of contract. He added: ‘There is only so much budget. ‘So using Ricky Holmes as an example with using stupid figures, if we gave him £10,000 a week more then it starts now and I have to find money for that in this year’s budget. ‘If we can do things within budget then we will do, but that might increase my budget which may then stop me getting in a loan player." Whoever it is trusting these people with money, please stop. They clearly have no idea. And, can someone shoot Neil Allen, "potentially permanent progress could develop," sheesh.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The9 Posted 4 November, 2014 Share Posted 4 November, 2014 Sneaking towards that 100,000th post. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buctootim Posted 4 November, 2014 Share Posted 4 November, 2014 David James bankrupt. Used the in-house financial advisers I guess. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-29895649 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CB Fry Posted 4 November, 2014 Share Posted 4 November, 2014 How is he bankrupt?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trousers Posted 4 November, 2014 Share Posted 4 November, 2014 David James bankrupt. Used the in-house financial advisers I guess. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-29895649 Anyone recall how much Pompey shafted him for? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gruffalo Posted 4 November, 2014 Share Posted 4 November, 2014 Anyone recall how much Pompey shafted him for? The original negotiated amount (pre re-negotiation) was about £145k, or £3.6k per month on tick. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lets B Avenue Posted 4 November, 2014 Share Posted 4 November, 2014 How is he bankrupt?! Bad investments. Presumably an underwater casino. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whitey Grandad Posted 4 November, 2014 Share Posted 4 November, 2014 How is he bankrupt?! Expensive divorce. He doesn't have a lot to show for £20m earnings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andysstuff Posted 4 November, 2014 Share Posted 4 November, 2014 David James bankrupt. Used the in-house financial advisers I guess. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-29895649 Genuinely the saddest thing I've read during this whole sorry saga. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonnyboy Posted 4 November, 2014 Share Posted 4 November, 2014 The original negotiated amount (pre re-negotiation) was about £145k, or £3.6k per month on tick. Why not just hold out for the full amount? Would go a long way in India... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rallyboy Posted 5 November, 2014 Share Posted 5 November, 2014 South Coast football. Southampton - 2nd in the Premier League, today unveil a new facility that will set the benchmark for European clubs, and they continue to produce players who grace the Champions' League. Bournemouth - a club record of consecutive wins, top of the Championship, their highest ever placing. Brighton - firmly established in the Championship with a modern ground. Reading - firmly established in the championship with a modern ground. portsmouth - firmly rooted in the 4th tier, and by deferring and reducing wages they have helped push their former England goalkeeper and cup hero into bankruptcy - today they are finishing off painting the fence at their hired training pitch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danbert Posted 5 November, 2014 Share Posted 5 November, 2014 South Coast football. Southampton - 2nd in the Premier League, today unveil a new facility that will set the benchmark for European clubs, and they continue to produce players who grace the Champions' League. Bournemouth - a club record of consecutive wins, top of the Championship, their highest ever placing. Brighton - firmly established in the Championship with a modern ground. Reading - firmly established in the championship with a modern ground. portsmouth - firmly rooted in the 4th tier, and by deferring and reducing wages they have helped push their former England goalkeeper and cup hero into bankruptcy - today they are finishing off painting the fence at their hired training pitch. To be fair, it's a very nice fence designed by a genuine architect. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ecuk268 Posted 5 November, 2014 Share Posted 5 November, 2014 To be fair, it's a very nice fence designed by a genuine architect. Has he been paid yet? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
holepuncture Posted 5 November, 2014 Share Posted 5 November, 2014 South Coast football. Southampton - 2nd in the Premier League, today unveil a new facility that will set the benchmark for European clubs, and they continue to produce players who grace the Champions' League. Bournemouth - a club record of consecutive wins, top of the Championship, their highest ever placing. Brighton - firmly established in the Championship with a modern ground. Reading - firmly established in the championship with a modern ground. portsmouth - firmly rooted in the 4th tier, and by deferring and reducing wages they have helped push their former England goalkeeper and cup hero into bankruptcy - today they are finishing off painting the fence at their hired training pitch. Nicely done there Rallyboy. If anything can sum up the vast, vast differences between us and the skates, it has to be the training facilities and infrastructure. They really are a generation behind now, as they scramble for unemployed youths to paint the fences around the portacabin on the rented greenland, Brighton press on with the development of their "American Express Elite Football Performance Centre", and Saints announce that they have only just completed phase one of their development: In addition, the club can also today confirm that it has applied for planning permission to enhance the facilities on offer in the Markus Liebherr Pavilion. A proposed two-story annex will house the Saints Academy’s education facilities, as well as a treatment room, sports laboratory and additional gym facilities, while construction of an inflatable dome over Staplewood’s 3G pitch is already under way. Read more at http://www.saintsfc.co.uk/news/article/20141105-markus-liebherr-pavilion-2063443.aspx#jQbyx8SudaObbFj0.99 My sympathies to another bankrupted victim of the skates, always came across as one of the better ones. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tpbury Posted 5 November, 2014 Share Posted 5 November, 2014 James always strikes as being open minded and intelligent. I don't understand how he became bankrupt even with a divorce. I enjoyed his articles in The Observer and never really associated him with Portsmouth. Seems too intelligent to have spunked it all away. Then you get that 'short career' bull**** come up where footballers earn more in 3 years than normal people do in 40 (and I'm talking about when James was playing, nowadays it would take less than a couple of months). Getting the sentence paragraph thing. Help. Need some conjunctions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rallyboy Posted 5 November, 2014 Share Posted 5 November, 2014 Yes, it's worrying when an alleged intelligent footballer manages to lose £20M, good luck to the thick ones! I think he needs to sack his divorce lawyer. His articles were very good and always mentioned the charity that benefited from his fee. That glorious cup team of 08 are going to have a great reunion party in a few years! Did you ever get paid? No, you? Nope. Did you get hate mail? Yeah, and the worst thing was it was so badly written. Happy days... Yeah. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marsdinho Posted 5 November, 2014 Share Posted 5 November, 2014 James always strikes as being someone trying to sound intelligent. There you go, corrected. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidthesquid Posted 5 November, 2014 Share Posted 5 November, 2014 South Coast football. Southampton - 2nd in the Premier League, today unveil a new facility that will set the benchmark for European clubs, and they continue to produce players who grace the Champions' League. Bournemouth - a club record of consecutive wins, top of the Championship, their highest ever placing. Brighton - firmly established in the Championship with a modern ground. Reading - firmly established in the championship with a modern ground. portsmouth - firmly rooted in the 4th tier, and by deferring and reducing wages they have helped push their former England goalkeeper and cup hero into bankruptcy - today they are finishing off painting the fence at their hired training pitch. That really puts their situation in context, doesn't it? They are a long, long way from ever being a serious club again. Their trophies in the ancient past will just be little footnotes in history, with a cautionary tale about how cheats never ultimately prosper. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
positivepete Posted 5 November, 2014 Share Posted 5 November, 2014 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/fameandfortune/11210678/Bankrupt-David-James-sells-off-possessions-why-do-so-many-footballers-go-bust.html The article says that in fact he has gone bankrupt over unpaid tax issues. Not a laughing matter but a certain irony by association. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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