People do say that a lot don't they? Merse said we were the best fans he's ever played in front of. I'm surprised he can remember.
I liked the way Merse said today that QPR were the best team. Genius. Delighted he also tipped saints to go down = certain to stay up
Do you think they gave him the job as a sort of stooge, like Fred Dineage used to be on How? (basso profondo HOW!)
I just want this saga to end....heaven knows what Pompey fans think! You need an end before you can have a beginning....this is just stretching out the middle painful bit.
Look how long Greece has dragged itself out. Makes the entire Portsmouth saga look like operation speedy resolution.
I saw the open letter to Chanrai asking for him to be a good guy and save the club by letting the PST have Fratton Park on the cheap. I can just imagine his reply: Dear Pompey fans, You have been very rude about me recently calling me all sorts of horrid things from a liar and a cheat to some quite unprintable and to be honest quite slanderous things. It is quite clear from these sentiments that you do not like me one little bit and I have to say following recent events that feeling is mutual. However I am not a fool with my money ( except rather unwisely when I was drawn into loaning money to your club ) which is why I am rather rich and your club is very poor. Only about one in ten of your fans at Fratton Park yesterday were prepared to risk their money with the PST bid and yet you want me to help support their bid with my money. My response to you all is rather like the one that a quite charming Pompey fan called Scumstomper wrote on the News thread "Do one Chanrai". Just swap Pompey for Chanrai in that last statement and you have my response. I want my money. Kind regards to you all. Balram Chainrai
No...that wasn't what the story was. It was about the Trust asking Chainrai to open negotiations about the purchase of Fratton Park and to be realistic in his valuation of it. Nobody has asked him to have anything to do with the club again beyond that.
Not "on the cheap" - at realistic value. Chainrai wanted his £17-18million pounds back but he only has the stadium as leverage and the stadium's not worth that, it's not even worth half of it. The Trust is prepared to offer £2-3million for it and had independent surveyors in to assess the worth of the stadium themselves. The results of the findings of the surveyors will either be used in negotiations with Chainrai over the purchase of the stadium or they will be used in court to force Chainrai to accept the amount offered for Fratton Park.
Chainrai's most favourite song: [video=youtube;E-P2qL3qkzk]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-P2qL3qkzk[/video]
Enjoyed that. I read it out aloud for nostalgic effect. [video=youtube;2XK0RImTvh0]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XK0RImTvh0[/video]
How (sorry) I miss that little Spanish guitar intro, that accompanied the Southern Tv logo. Did you check out the link to the programme itself, Second Stain? Fred's suit! I suggest he's a big Elton John fan. The evidence? I've got it now. [video=youtube;CzUqvUzK5q4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzUqvUzK5q4&feature=relmfu[/video] [video=youtube;_kS6-kWxPvk]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kS6-kWxPvk[/video]
Yeah, I miss it too. There's an extended Youtube video of something like an hour and 20 minutes showing some of Southern TV's output over the years. It reminded me that as a kid, I used to watch the Southern TV news magazine at 6pm, Day by Day, in preference to the BBC's much more formal and stodgier South Today. Somewhere in the past, I changed channels. I think it was probably when Southern TV lost its franchise. Of course, Southern TV also had Southern Soccer, broadcast the following Sunday afternoon, when there was no football. After Southern TV disappeared we received the very London orientated, The Big Match. If Saints weren't playing a London team there was fat chance of them being the main match. And there was no chance of Pompey being seen, unlike with Southern Soccer, where Pompey were seen every other week, because the cameras went to Fratton Park when Saints played away, and vice-versa. And yes, I did check out the programme link. I also miss Jon Miller and Jack Hargreaves. Especially Jack's Out of Town programme.
Did you see my video of Fred presenting Gambit, the other day? If you watch the whole thing, there is one part (in part 2) where the whole of Womankind are betrayed by the hostess doing her "I'm just a silly girl and don't know anything routine". Fred played his part with aplomb. "Lupine refers to which kind of animal?" he asks. After both couples have got it wrong she replies, "Lupines grow in my mum's front garden, tee hee hee." It's painful to watch. But you do get John Benson announcing and best of all, Peter Fenn on the Hammond organ, with max vibrato.
Interesting piece in Mail on-line about daily struggle of Appleton. Said he was sold the job as a 5-yr plan to get into the PL which ended after only 10 days (similar to us...our 5-yr plan was cut short too). Sometimes they didn't have money for food and had to have whip rounds in the dressing room. He didn't meet one player until he walked into the hotel lobby before their first match. They have about £30,000/wk to run club and he thinks they can last till January.
