Is another 6-9 points for Pompey and the Scummers to lose their next three games.........is it too much to ask Santa? After all I have been on my best behaviour all season so far!...........
I think the utter dribble sb3 comes out with has driven them all away. Another 3 pts for the South Coasts Best team and even the third best team Bournemouth are 9th in a poor league 1 this season is great. The rest is history
Well said pompeydownunder - fully agree Keep fingers crossed for a decent outcome from the court case re. the ground on the 13th & 14th.
And you probably didn't want this for christmas... http://www.football-league.co.uk/fo...-board-considers-pst-proposal_2293334_3002405
It will be a dream come true for so many supporters. As a people-watcher, it will also be interesting to see how the fans respond to the responsibility of club ownership, bearing in mind that it has always been a club owned by businessmen, which is contrary to eg AFC Wimbledon who set up from scratch and have a different mind-set now. If this becomes a successful model will other clubs fans be tempted to grab back their clubs from the money-men who have no real interest in football per se but in the profits they see in the Prem. A case of watch this space.
Fan ownership of Portsmouth will transform your club in to the English St Pauli with the club run along ethical lines by the people for the people. I've argued this before and been shot down for making the comment, but Portsmouth are unique on the south coast as they are the only team whose fan base is proudly working class in the fashion of the more "traditional" clubs in the north. The only other teams down south who can probably argue the same are Millwall and West Ham. By running the club in fashion that the fans see fit and escewing the more aggressive business models of many modern clubs, Portsmouth could be transformed from a footballing basket case to a club that has the potential to embody the ethics of nearly all football fans wearied by the cynical exploitation of business who have limited understanding of the environs of the club they own. I hadn't actually appreciated the effort that Portsmouth fans have fun into this endeavour until I read the article in this month's "When Saturday comes." i.e. 2000 fans pledging over £1000, on-line syndicates, 1000's of e-mails forwarded to the Football league to argue that Chanrai failed the league's own cirteria for directors and a forensic investiagtion by fan / blogger Mike Hall, etc. Should the bid succeed, this will make PFC the biggest fan-owned club in the UK. I'm not sure whether the fan ownership option is capable of taking Portsmouth to the top flight but I think it will prove to be an interesting experiment and you wonder if it can succeed better than at clubs like Motherwell who have gone the same route. If this does prove to be workable business model, I can see other clubs choosing this route. I think you would also find that Portsmouth start to engender the same kind of sympathy as AFC Wimbledon. As a neutral, I believe this will prove to be a fascinating experiment. On the other hand, it could equally prove to be unworkable.
