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BTW Saint

BTW Saint

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Grant May Still Quit according to most papers

 

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/football/premier_league/portsmouth/article7008984.ece

 

and Independent

http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/premier-league/grant-mulls-position-as-kaboul-quits-1883599.html

 

"Grant yesterday cancelled his weekly press conference in the wake of the Kaboul fiasco. Portsmouth desperately need some of the money from the Kaboul deal, which will bring in around £6m, to cover the players' monthly wage bill of £1.8m, which was due yesterday. The funds, however, first have to go to the Premier League before they can be forwarded to Portsmouth"

 

and Telegraph

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/leagues/premierleague/portsmouth/7104916/Avram-Grant-set-to-quit-as-Portsmouth-manager-after-clash-with-Manchester-City.html

 

"In a further twist to Portsmouth's financial misery it emerged Arsenal manager Arsène Wenger is trying to gazump Tottenham in their pursuit of Begovic, delaying the Bosnian international's departure"

 

 

and Mirror

http://www.mirrorfootball.co.uk/news/Avram-Grant-s-future-shrouded-in-doubt-after-he-refuses-to-guarantee-he-will-stay-at-Portsmouth-article305267.html

 

Thats all for now

BTW

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dubai_phil

dubai_phil

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Grant May Still Quit according to most papers

 

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/football/premier_league/portsmouth/article7008984.ece

 

and Independent

http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/premier-league/grant-mulls-position-as-kaboul-quits-1883599.html

 

"Grant yesterday cancelled his weekly press conference in the wake of the Kaboul fiasco. Portsmouth desperately need some of the money from the Kaboul deal, which will bring in around £6m, to cover the players' monthly wage bill of £1.8m, which was due yesterday. The funds, however, first have to go to the Premier League before they can be forwarded to Portsmouth"

 

and Telegraph

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/leagues/premierleague/portsmouth/7104916/Avram-Grant-set-to-quit-as-Portsmouth-manager-after-clash-with-Manchester-City.html

 

"In a further twist to Portsmouth's financial misery it emerged Arsenal manager Arsène Wenger is trying to gazump Tottenham in their pursuit of Begovic, delaying the Bosnian international's departure"

 

 

and Mirror

http://www.mirrorfootball.co.uk/news/Avram-Grant-s-future-shrouded-in-doubt-after-he-refuses-to-guarantee-he-will-stay-at-Portsmouth-article305267.html

 

Thats all for now

BTW

 

Add these to the Sun article, then read back a few pages on here to the radio interview on The Quay and you have clear evidence of a Company Director lieing in public.

 

What else is he making up?

 

Well done chaps

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OldNick

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Thats the best Skate web site yet.

 

I just tried to find that link and got this

 

This Connection is Untrusted

You have asked Firefox to connect securely to http://www.portsmouthfc.co.uk, but we can't confirm that your connection is secure.

 

Normally, when you try to connect securely,

sites will present trusted identification to prove that you are

going to the right place. However, this site's identity can't be verified.

 

What Should I Do?

 

If you usually connect to

this site without problems, this error could mean that someone is

trying to impersonate the site, and you shouldn't continue.

 

Technical Details

 

 

 

http://www.portsmouthfc.co.uk uses an invalid security certificate.

 

The certificate is only valid for the following names:

http://www.argosclearance.co.uk , argosclearance.co.uk

 

(Error code: ssl_error_bad_cert_domain)

end quote)

 

WTF?

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Weston Saint

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I just tried to find that link and got this

 

This Connection is Untrusted

You have asked Firefox to connect securely to http://www.portsmouthfc.co.uk, but we can't confirm that your connection is secure.

 

Normally, when you try to connect securely,

sites will present trusted identification to prove that you are

going to the right place. However, this site's identity can't be verified.

 

What Should I Do?

 

If you usually connect to

this site without problems, this error could mean that someone is

trying to impersonate the site, and you shouldn't continue.

 

Technical Details

 

 

 

http://www.portsmouthfc.co.uk uses an invalid security certificate.

 

The certificate is only valid for the following names:

http://www.argosclearance.co.uk , argosclearance.co.uk

 

(Error code: ssl_error_bad_cert_domain)

end quote)

 

WTF?

 

Yes Norton blocked me from accessing saying it was a security risk.

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saintbletch

saintbletch

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I just tried to find that link and got this

 

This Connection is Untrusted

You have asked Firefox to connect securely to http://www.portsmouthfc.co.uk, but we can't confirm that your connection is secure.

 

Normally, when you try to connect securely,

sites will present trusted identification to prove that you are

going to the right place. However, this site's identity can't be verified.

 

What Should I Do?

 

If you usually connect to

this site without problems, this error could mean that someone is

trying to impersonate the site, and you shouldn't continue.

 

Technical Details

 

 

 

http://www.portsmouthfc.co.uk uses an invalid security certificate.

 

The certificate is only valid for the following names:

http://www.argosclearance.co.uk , argosclearance.co.uk

 

(Error code: ssl_error_bad_cert_domain)

end quote)

 

WTF?

 

Somebody has cleverly, and presumably maliciously, directed the https:// (secure http) certificate to the Argos trade sale web site. I guess it was some internet savvy Saints fan.

 

Firefox and Norton are basically telling you rightly that you can't trust the certificate and that someone is trying to impersonate http://www.portsmouthfc.co.uk.

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OldNick

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Somebody has cleverly, and presumably maliciously, directed the https:// (secure http) certificate to the Argos trade sale web site. I guess it was some internet savvy Saints fan.

 

Firefox and Norton are basically telling you rightly that you can't trust the certificate and that someone is trying to impersonate http://www.portsmouthfc.co.uk.

 

That is not a funny thing to do, although I suspect the person doing it thought it was. That will only serve for a tit for tat response from one of their fans to our club site.Its not on IMO

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GenevaSaint

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That is not a funny thing to do, although I suspect the person doing it thought it was. That will only serve for a tit for tat response from one of their fans to our club site.Its not on IMO

 

Get a grip will you Nick. Unless you specifically look for the SSL encrypted website (HTTPS) you won't get this link.

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Tractor_Saint

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I can only imagine that somebody in Argos' IT dept is a skate... And that they can't be bothered to pay for a valid security certificate... Strange

 

Nothing of the sort - something a little wrong in with the hosting company ukfast. Both argosclearance and portsmouthfc websites are installed on the same physical server at ukfast

 

Non-authoritative answer:

Name: http://www.portsmouthfc.co.uk

Address: 78.109.165.197

 

Non-authoritative answer:

Name: http://www.argosclearance.co.uk

Address: 78.109.165.197

 

Name: 78.109.165.197.srvlist.ukfast.net

Address: 78.109.165.197

 

All a bit weird because the argos.co.uk site is hosted by a large computer company near Portsmouth and nothing to do with ukfast.

 

Interesting that I can't find a link from the main Argos site to the clearance site. I have found the Argos Clearance link which isn't anything to do with the UKfast site. Curious.

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dubai_phil

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Think the skates will be ok unfortunately.

 

The Premier League hasn't finalised television right for overseas yet (as stated in the Mail today) so there could be a lot of money coming in from that in the future.

 

 

Not next year, the Overseas TV rights package has already been sold.

 

We will lose Showtime down here and it switched to Abu Dhabi Sports. Sp far we've had no word on how they plan to run it but many are concerned we'll lose English commentaries

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St Marco

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So they are saying it is a £6m-£7m deal of which Portsmouth will get around £3m-£4m due to the money they owe Spurs for buying him 1st time around.

 

Of that they have to pay around £1.6m in wages which are due and £1.7m to Sol Campbell for the money he is owed. Meaning = £3.3m.

 

So basically they sold him to pay a few bills but ultimatly it won't change a thing. They still have huge debts and have probably just lost the player who could of made them the most transfer money.

 

Without someone with a lot of money paying some of their debts in the next week and a half they are gone.

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Faz

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So they are saying it is a £6m-£7m deal of which Portsmouth will get around £3m-£4m due to the money they owe Spurs for buying him 1st time around.

 

Of that they have to pay around £1.6m in wages which are due and £1.7m to Sol Campbell for the money he is owed. Meaning = £3.3m.

 

So basically they sold him to pay a few bills but ultimatly it won't change a thing. They still have huge debts and have probably just lost the player who could of made them the most transfer money.

 

Without someone with a lot of money paying some of their debts in the next week and a half they are gone.

 

Doubtless Kaboul is entitled to a cut, as he didn't ask for a move, and probabaly bonuses written into his contract. Oh, and some to be paid into a certain offshore a/c.............

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Has anybody got any idea what they are doing down there, the transfer window is just about to shut and from where I'm stood they need to get a shed load of money in to give them any kind of chance of making it untill the end of the season. The fire sale has not happened and what they have got in is just a **** in the ocean when you look at what they need to pay out. Are they being fecked over so the gun runner can get as much as of his money out before the curtains are drawn?

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Chez

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the wage bill is closer to £3m not £2m. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/p/portsmouth/8446488.stm

The £1.8m figure appearning in the papers derives from the fact they were £1.8m short teh first time they were paid late. The Kaboul money won't go far, no matter what Tells Stories says. Like he knows anything about the finances these days anyway.

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Chez

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Has anybody got any idea what they are doing down there, the transfer window is just about to shut and from where I'm stood they need to get a shed load of money in to give them any kind of chance of making it untill the end of the season. The fire sale has not happened and what they have got in is just a **** in the ocean when you look at what they need to pay out. Are they being fecked over so the gun runner can get as much as of his money out before the curtains are drawn?

 

Tells stories said on Thursday that they had had no enquiries at all about any of their players apart from Spurs' enquiry about Kaboul and Begavic. You can't sell if you have no customers.

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Has anybody got any idea what they are doing down there, the transfer window is just about to shut and from where I'm stood they need to get a shed load of money in to give them any kind of chance of making it untill the end of the season. The fire sale has not happened and what they have got in is just a **** in the ocean when you look at what they need to pay out. Are they being fecked over so the gun runner can get as much as of his money out before the curtains are drawn?

 

The gun runner has little say as any transfer money is going to the Premier League before they re-issue it accordingly.

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Tells stories said on Thursday that they had had no enquiries at all about any of their players apart from Spurs' enquiry about Kaboul and Begavic. You can't sell if you have no customers.

 

They won't last a month then, and may not even make the game at St Marys.

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dubai_phil

dubai_phil

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DP - DSTV not available there?

 

I've got 5 live PL games and one live CCC game today.

 

They have it in most sports bars here

 

Yep, have the dish, used to be able to get an "interesting" link to a web site to pick up the service. Otherwise it needs a friend to get a second smartcard for the decoder down your way.

 

We also get the full range of PL games but the Cup & Lower League stuff switched to ART which is an Arabic service (with English commentary) but it's an extra 60 quid a month

 

We'll find a way when the time comes ;)

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Joey-deacons-left-nut

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-1247400/Portsmouth-hit-Begovic-U-turn.html?ITO=1490 can you say "Hahahahaha"

 

So the Kaboul money will be used to pay off "some" of the existing football debts due over the next few days...

 

They still don't have the cash to pay the staff and players....

 

---2nd of Feb in Admin anyone??

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FarehamRed

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Ho dear.... ;-)

 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-1247400/Portsmouth-hit-Begovic-U-turn.html

 

Portsmouth were pushed closer to financial collapse last night after goalkeeper Asmir Begovic pulled out of a transfer to Tottenham.

 

Although the club completed a deal to send defender Younes Kaboul back to White Hart Lane, they now face a race against time to find another buyer for Begovic and others in order to stave off the threats of administration and being wound up.

When news broke that Begovic was unwilling to go to Tottenham, a Portsmouth insider said: 'This will kill the club.'

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Another interesting article stemming from the goings on at Pompey...

 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-1247345/Ian-Ridley-Football-fiddling-finances-smoke.html

 

And unfortunately for one person, someone to pay their debts

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2010/jan/31/portsmouth-fan-told-pay-club-debts

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