They stab it with their steely knives, "But they just can't kill the beast", sums it up well. As does "We are all prisoners here of our own device"
Hopefully we will get as fortunate as you have- these are dark times for Pompey .. Good Luck next Season
They are but while you are still breathing there is hope for a full recovery. Hope you can find someone prepared to take your club on and save it from any more pain. Unless of course it is when you play us again.
Supporting your team involves the past the present and the future we have had teams and players in our history that we can be very proud of and some not so.But however it goes it becomes ingrained that you stick firm to your colours the club for me is the long list of illustrious players to many to mention from Bates through to Lambo not the likes of Lowe after all when we were heading for admin without the continued support of around 15 to 18 thousand backboned fans who stuck firm the club would not exist.My only tad of bitterness is that because i cant afford season tickets for myself and two sons i will have to battle it out with people who have less faith for premier league tickets but thats life.With regard to the article no i have never considered not supporting the saints and if we are bottom of the Prem by 15 points come March i will still be there because lets face it there will be plenty of empty seats
There is a similar situation going on at Leeds United at the moment. No supporters have stopped supporting, but many have stopped paying into Ken Bates's coffers and decided to turn their backs on purchasing season tickets, match day tickets, merchandise, food, drinks etc until he, Harvey and their cronies are gone. The only way to get rid of them is to cut off their money supply. This happened under Lowe at Southampton and I applaud those who took the decision. When we wnet into administration in 2007 we had no choice but to back the club and plough our money in so that the club would be financially secure. Now that has happened - and it was the fans that did that, not Bates who vowed that if he did not win the club back in the admin process he would make sure it died - we are more confident that Bates can smell the coffee, and there are now some serious bidders at the table (for the first time, we believe), and that is because the fans have put so much pressure on this current regime. Hopefully our future may be as bright as yours has just become
Hopefully all clubs that hit the wall will find a benefactor with the readies to keep the wolves at bay.
I stopped going to football when they started paying players ridiculous sums of money and charging me £30+ quid a game, I'd rather spend the money going down the local go-kart track than watching a bunch of overpaid primadonnas go through the motions so they can run home to try out their new £100,000 sports car
this is exactly how I feel at the moment as my Club Coventry are having the same problems. Our Owners,SISU,nearly got their hooks into Saints and you resisted them,I wish to God our board could have been as strong.They have destroyed the family ethos and closeness in our club and have alienated the fanbase to the extent that thousands of regulars are refusing to buy season tickets. I have had one for more years than I care to remember and in the last 6 years an extra one for my son, but enough is enough and we are not renewing this year.I could quite easily not bother again since the money for tickets was borrowed against last season so it wont go towards strengthening the squad. I refuse to pay my money over to help pay multi-millionaire share-holders.
