Just had a look on a Pompey forum where a chap is seriously calling for Holloway as their next manager. He may have bombed at Palace, but I hardly think he's ready for a League 2 relegation fight just yet!
Oh dear Godders....... You will never be able to undo over a hundred years of our history....No matter how you try.......as long as Pompey remain in the football league that is. Going back to the early days in the history of the two clubs as they climbed the league we still remained their rivals by sheer geography. I agree with you rivals might not be the right word literally. However it is as the fans see it and mostly want it to remain. It is only in the last decade or so that the real bitterness has really crept in. You are old enough to remember their real golden years no doubt were in the 30's 40's and 50's when we were still wallowing in the lower divisions. They still saw us then as their rivals just as we still saw them during the 70's and onwards until our more recent blip. Nothing has changed in how the fan feels just the fortunes of the clubs themselves.
Surely if they have stopped the rot and got rid of the deadwood in the boardroom they could attract an investor? I just don't see where the money is coming from as a community owned club. Unless they get the cash to attract quality personel how will they climb the league? Fair play to Connelly always liked him.
During the late 70s and early 80s Pompey fans had a bit of a rivalry with Millwall!! It was to do with "we´re harder than you!!" Hardly ever a mention, on the then terraces, of how much they loved Southampton, Lawrie and Alan Ball!!
I suspect that if they did get promotion and all the spare land had been exploited by the property developers attached to the club, then indeed the board would be looking for outside investment. I also suspect that despite all the assurances & agreements with the Pompey Trust, FA & Football League, there would be **** all they could do to stop the club being sold and those "high net worth individuals" creaming off a profit. I think thats why they are already ****ting it about not being anywhere near the Promotion places and sacked Whittingham. They don't really want to be at Fratton any longer than they have to, especially as the longer they stay in League 2 or League 1, the more likely it is that fans will get fed up & try to oust them.
If they sold to someone like Markus Leibherr, then I'd be happy for them to cream off a profit. Gates, parachute payments (although those are all going to ex-players), sponsors (we apparently have way more sponsorship now than we did last season despite being a league lower). And why do ya'll have such a negative view of the high-networth individuals? It's not a given that they're just in it to siphon off as much money as they can and don't care about the club but you seem to be talking as if it's a 100% certainty. Plus after the last few owners, pretty much anything is an improvement.
Yeah, but you know they won't. More likely to be another Arab or Far East wideboy, although with the Sky parachute money tied up, even those nutters normally attracted to buying Pompey would think twice. But seriously, is being a "fans owned & run club" really panning out as PFC fans expected (or were told) ?
Don't listen to them PL. I'm very happy that Pompey have saved themselves. Nobody does it with true altruism, but the main plus point is that the club has been saved and the people involved seem to care. They need time and patience. For the moment the highest priority is that you don't lose your league status.
Me too, but even more happy that the natural order of things has been restored. I am from an era that knows us in the top flight and them drifting at level three of four....add to that the bonus of the 25 reign of terror at old Trafford ending and them now back to also rans
Went to the BBC Sport Football website to check for updates. Saw the Champions League fixtures. Flicked through the menu to find the League Two stuff, and then found the matches playing this evening. After digesting the current Lge2 scores, I then reflected on how much I don't give a monkey's about the Champions League, despite the fact that the webpage was awash with the news of it.
