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They're having a proper little meltdown this week, and Cook seems to have completely lost it. I can't see him keeping his job beyond the end of the season unless some incredible act of God somehow gets them promoted.

 

They really are an utter laughing stock. Their abject failure to get out of the division despite having a budget that's way greater than their opponents speaks volumes about failure at every level of the club. From the board, through management to recruitment it's been a colossal cluster **** season after season and extremely satisfying to watch.

 

WTFILN?

 

Hear hear! Long may their tatty clown car continue its hilarious and prolonged collapse

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So, if I'm understanding you correctly, each and every time they boo - have they admitted that they do that yet? - what they are actually doing is boo-ing themselves?

 

You'd have to be very, very thick to do that !

 

So, yes, that's what they're doing :):)

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They've realised that ownership of the comatose giant is too big a job - for themselves.

It's the pressure of their own virtual cup final, they are weighed down by their own inner expectation.

Sort of.

Or some other twaddle about warchests, rallying cries and plucky heroes.

:scared:

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It strikes med that there's actually a whole special Pompey vocabulary, so I thought I'd start a dictionary. Additional entries welcome...

 

Bestest - most special supporters in World football, thanks to their unwavering support and boundless enthusiasm (see TCWTB)

TCWTB - affectionate acronym for Pompey's best loved and most enthusiastic son. TCWTB is popular with all.

Kipper Shed / Krap Notarff / Timber Tabernacle - famous for it's atmosphere (see Bestest) the Kipper Shed is an architectural and engineering marvel, and not just because it's still standing. At various times it's been reconceived as a an underwater casino, a potty and a turntable.

Existential dread - the feeling that all professional footballers who play for Pompey are for some reason struck with when playing at the Kipper Shed, and which explains all anomalous results.

Their cup final - the curious phenomenon which allows vastly inferior teams to consistently beat Pompey at the Kipper Shed, and which explains all anomalous results.

The Turin Tablecloth - a holy Pompey artifact (see The Victory 2). Legend has it that the face of Michael Appleton is clearly visible on April 7 every year (see The Victory 1).

The Victory 1 - The famous 2-2 draw of April 7 2012 whereby Pompey prevented Southampton from gaining promotion to the Premiership.

The Victory 2 - A ship famous for contributing chairs to the Portsmouth FC boardroom.

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The News reports that there is deadline excitement with the Skates looking likely to swoop ahead of Bolton for the signing of Preston North End's striker Eoin Doyle, on loan. Yeah, I know, gripping stuff, especially as Bolton's interest is non-existent with their expected signings of strikers Chris Wood and Adam LeFondre. But then again you never know what deadline day might bring...my F5 finger is getting a blister.

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They've realised that ownership of the comatose giant is too big a job - for themselves.

It's the pressure of their own virtual cup final, they are weighed down by their own inner expectation.

Sort of.

Or some other twaddle about warchests, rallying cries and plucky heroes.

:scared:

You got that wrong.

 

I think it's war heroes, crying rallies and plucky chests.

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It strikes med that there's actually a whole special Pompey vocabulary, so I thought I'd start a dictionary. Additional entries welcome...

 

Bestest - most special supporters in World football, thanks to their unwavering support and boundless enthusiasm (see TCWTB)

TCWTB - affectionate acronym for Pompey's best loved and most enthusiastic son. TCWTB is popular with all.

Kipper Shed / Krap Notarff / Timber Tabernacle - famous for it's atmosphere (see Bestest) the Kipper Shed is an architectural and engineering marvel, and not just because it's still standing. At various times it's been reconceived as a an underwater casino, a potty and a turntable.

Existential dread - the feeling that all professional footballers who play for Pompey are for some reason struck with when playing at the Kipper Shed, and which explains all anomalous results.

Their cup final - the curious phenomenon which allows vastly inferior teams to consistently beat Pompey at the Kipper Shed, and which explains all anomalous results.

The Turin Tablecloth - a holy Pompey artifact (see The Victory 2). Legend has it that the face of Michael Appleton is clearly visible on April 7 every year (see The Victory 1).

The Victory 1 - The famous 2-2 draw of April 7 2012 whereby Pompey prevented Southampton from gaining promotion to the Premiership.

The Victory 2 - A ship famous for contributing chairs to the Portsmouth FC boardroom.

 

Haha, I like it :D

 

Pedantry alert, but what you've got is a glossary, not a dictionary ;)

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Hopefully the Real FA cup match last week has prepared them well for this cup final match.

 

They could only put three past lowly Tottenham Hotspur, how are they going to possibly cope against the mightiest sleepiest giantiest giants with their #championship standard fullback?

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They could only put three past lowly Tottenham Hotspur, how are they going to possibly cope against the mightiest sleepiest giantiest giants with their #championship standard fullback?

 

They'll be overawed once it gets dark and the championship standard fullback is illuminated by the championship standard floodlights. There's no coming back from that.

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I really, really want to play them next season.

 

12 years and counting since we last beat them

Unfortunately that requires them to get cup progression and then it's 1/63 chance to draw them. Unlikely but would be fantastic to play them with three divisions between us.

 

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Been so wrapped up with how crap we are that I had no idea they'd even played, let alone lost. That's cheered me up slightly.

 

So they're 2 points off falling out of the play offs and 7 points from automatic promotion.

 

From League 2. Statistically the easiest division to get promoted from!

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Q What do the following football teams all have in common?

 

Chesterfield

Sćunthorpe

Rochdale

Fleetwood

Burton Albion

Shrewsbury

Bury

Southend

Northampton

Oxford United

Bristol Rovers

AFC Wimbledon

 

All been luckily promoted from League 2 on a smaller budget ahead of the mighty fan owned Portsmouth since they were wrongfully demoted to that division?

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Been so wrapped up with how crap we are that I had no idea they'd even played, let alone lost. That's cheered me up slightly.

 

So they're 2 points off falling out of the play offs and 7 points from automatic promotion.

 

From League 2. Statistically the easiest division to get promoted from!

 

In the past I've been bored and thought "oh yeah Pompey, wonder how they're getting on", take a look at the table and "ugh? Where the **** are they?" Then it dawns on me, I'm looking at league 1.

 

"Holy **** that's right, they are still in league 2...hahahahaha".

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http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/sport/football/pompey/now-pompey-s-finest-ever-team-is-reunited-1-7806431

 

Instances of racial abuse had prompted the city to rally round the central defender and condemn such Fratton Park terrace behaviour.

 

 

#bestest

 

They've been abusing their own players since the 1940s. Although, I am surprised Neil Allen was allowed to write such a libellous comment, it's nothing more than fake news.

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http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/sport/football/pompey/now-pompey-s-finest-ever-team-is-reunited-1-7806431

 

 

 

#bestest

 

They've been abusing their own players since the 1940s. Although, I am surprised Neil Allen was allowed to write such a libellous comment, it's nothing more than fake news.

 

That whole piece serves only 2 purposes.

 

1. Pompey's claim to have the second black player ever playing for them [surprised they didn't claim the first].

2. Promote nobhead neil's book.

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Slightly off topic but worthy of a mention I feel is the opening sentance in last Thursday's News. The front page headline story was about a serial fly tipper who, according to the News, 'had blighted many beauty spots across Portsmouth'. If any English students ever needed an example of the perfect oxymoron.......

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That whole piece serves only 2 purposes.

 

1. Pompey's claim to have the second black player ever playing for them [surprised they didn't claim the first].

2. Promote nobhead neil's book.

'His quick wit' I suspect Allen had to look up the meaning of wit!
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That whole piece serves only 2 purposes.

 

1. Pompey's claim to have the second black player ever playing for them [surprised they didn't claim the first].

2. Promote nobhead neil's book.

 

Walter Tull at Northampton (and Tottenham I believe) and Jack Leslie at Plymouth would be two prior to the Pompey claim that I know of off top of head who played professionally in England prior to WW2 (WW1 in Tull's case). Probably there are at least one or two others? Leslie is a crazy story, he was picked for England while at Plymouth and then dropped when they found out he wasn't white.

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Walter Tull at Northampton (and Tottenham I believe) and Jack Leslie at Plymouth would be two prior to the Pompey claim that I know of off top of head who played professionally in England prior to WW2 (WW1 in Tull's case). Probably there are at least one or two others? Leslie is a crazy story, he was picked for England while at Plymouth and then dropped when they found out he wasn't white.

OK did a search and found another, Arthur Wharton who was a goalkeeper and the first black pro footballer.

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