The Prem has already said it will pay a percentage of what players are owed, from the parachute payements if pompey are liquidated.
Bet the Prem won't pay any of the Admin staff who are owed money (or at least not as high a percentage as the players), bunch of self-serving ******s. Personally I find any chant about Southampton embarrassing when we're not playing you. Especially the one about bricks.
I find it laughable when we have fans away at Barnsley singing the anti-Pompey chants, especially when we had so much of our own success to revel in. However, I don't find it embarrassing, as I know there will always be a selection of obsessive aggressives within any fanbase. To find it embarrassing would need me to feel as if I was part of it in the first place, which i'm not.
I wonder if Pompey's emotional blackmail card will work for them on Friday? I fully expect them to carry on to the next deadline and then the next and then the next.... I wonder if any of their creditors will use the same tactics to try to get Pompey to honour their debt? If its ok for them to cry about going out of business, I'm sure the money they have ripped off some creditors have put some of those businesses into problems.
That's what I was aiming for really. We've got so much to sing about that I don't understand why we would even have a song about Pompey. Or to put it another way, if Pompey fans sung about us being in League One with -10 points while they were in the Premiership, and I have no idea whether they did, I'd have wondered why they were so obsessed with us. Maybe they were worried that in a few short years the roles would have been reversed... The point being, sing about Rickie, or Nigel, or Nicola, or Markus, or whoever.
I think you are probably spot on here. Convenient that the 10th is a few days before the season starts...
Bumped. Public meeting later today to decide if the Council will lend the Supporters Trust £1.45m. Seen nothing further re Lawrence or Ben Haim so assume crunch day is still tomorrow!
Some may not understand it, but I feel ambivalent about this. I love that our success coincides with their problems...a return to the natural order. But it's not funny anymore...they're not supposed to disappear. Heard that staff have been told to empty their desks and I felt quite sad. A lot of ordinary people are suffering here and I can imagine what their fans feel as we felt it so recently. Come on, Pompey...a joke's a joke...save yourselves.
Business is business, if they go under so be it. I'm not gonna start taking the piss out of them but I shan't weep for them either.
Morning Wise! Yep looks like they will limp on for a while longer. Still in very poor shapoe though. Point deduction, no players etc.
It's the way of the world at the moment. According to the ECB Greece is a functioning economy, so Portsmouth must be a healthy football club. All I know is that if if they were both racehorses they would currently be sitting on my desk in prit-stick form...
Tal Ben Haim was the difficult one so they'll be fine now. Thinking about it I'm relieved, it'll be hilarious trying to see themselves limp through League One with an entire squad of none. They may survive but they're in no shape at all to build.
