Pay Up Pompey,Pompey Pay Up!

[Summerof69]

Im already fed up with the way in which the press are covering this.  Now its officially happened, they're talking about should the government bail out portsmouth and what an historic event it is.

Life exists outside of plastic football in plastic stadiums with plastic fans.  Just because its the sky premiership or whatever its called, it's suddenly subject of mainstream news network phone ins instead of being left for the niche channels.

Maybe Im just a grumpy sod.  I think thats probably the case.

No you're not a grumpy sod...fully agree with that.

This has got to be the longest, drawn own saga of a club going into admin. At least when Palace went into admin last month, they just did it !!

And it's only historic, as it's the first Premiership club, who should have enough money, but Pompey have done an excellent job in how not to run a Premiership club.

[BANGKOK RED]

And of course the plight off Notts County, which happens to be the oldest club IN THE WORLD, is neither historic nor newsworthy.

[suttonred]

For those missing the hilarity of the Friday statement, apparently Andronikou's doing a press conference at 3 pm. Presumably wearing his shining armour

Now that will be worth a dollar.

[Power to people]

For those missing the hilarity of the Friday statement, apparently Andronikou's doing a press conference at 3 pm. Presumably wearing his shining armour

He's going to love this, being quoted everywhere seeing his face on TV, he'll make himself into a celeb

[Ardiles]

Im already fed up with the way in which the press are covering this.  Now its officially happened, they're talking about should the government bail out portsmouth and what an historic event it is.

Life exists outside of plastic football in plastic stadiums with plastic fans.  Just because its the sky premiership or whatever its called, it's suddenly subject of mainstream news network phone ins instead of being left for the niche channels.

Precisely.  Portsmouth are a bog standard, mid-ranking football club who have recently punched well above their true weight precisely because they over-extended themselves and lived beyond their means.  The binge has now ended, and the hangover is finally kicking in.  Without financial mismanagement on a shocking scale (a scale which, incidentally, makes our own financial horror stories of the last 20 years pale in to insignificance), they simply would not have been up there in the first place.  This is no more 'historic' than the chicken and avocado sandwich I have just eaten for my lunch.

[land_of_bo]

Pompey fan at work has just told me the fa are considering kicking them out of the FA cup and docking another 20 points next season...?

Put him right on our friend from Hackey Young as well; he's not a happy bunny.

[suttonred]

Precisely.  Portsmouth are a bog standard, mid-ranking football club who have recently punched well above their true weight precisely because they over-extended themselves and lived beyond their means.  The binge has now ended, and the hangover is finally kicking in.  Without financial mismanagement on a shocking scale (a scale which, incidentally, makes our own financial horror stories of the last 20 years pale in to insignificance), they simply would not have been up there in the first place.  This is no more 'historic' than the chicken and avocado sandwich I have just eaten for my lunch.

Try Smoked salmon, bacon and avacado, blinding sandwich. Leroy reckons i'm a poof for eating that, but it's worth it.

[Ardiles]

I think it would be worth it simply to attract Leroy's opprobrium.

[Nemo]

On SSN now sporting some wonderful forehead bumfluff.

[alanmayes]

Our friend is now live on Sky Sports News at a Press Conference.

[Summerof69]

It's funny that Pompey didn't get this publicity when they were in admin before...

[pauld]

It's funny that Pompey didn't get this publicity when they were in admin before...

Ah, but they weren't in the "Best League in the World" (tm) then.

[pauld]

Our friend is now live on Sky Sports News at a Press Conference.

Shocking that he's gone early on this one. Has he no respect for the tradition of the Friday statement - it should be continually delayed so that the fuckwittery can be finely honed throughout the day. Anyone watching the oaf care to give a summary?

[Nemo]

The summary was effectively "I don't know, I've only been here two hours, I'll tell you in a week."

[pauld]

The summary was effectively "I don't know, I've only been here two hours, I'll tell you in a week."

Funny that, that's what he was still saying to our creditors after 6 years