With the possibility that our relegation could be mathematically confirmed this week-end, along with the worrying news from the administrators as to the size of the club's debt and lack of potential buyers, I think it's about time to stop stressing about it and revert to some good old-fashioned Gallows-Humour. You know the old saying; if you can't laugh at yourself, what right have you to laugh at any-one else? Not quite strictly withing the correct genre, I received this by text from a mate who, for his sins, is Saints fan. News in that Portsmouth FC are to merge with Havant & Waterlooville. The new club will be known as Havant & Portalooville. I am reliably informed that he collected his coat immediately after hitting the send button!
Portalooville. I've never heard that before and annoyed that I didn't think of it! I wonder if the old outfit used to get called that by other teams fans.
Portalooville, class. I'm sure the same gallows humour that helped keep some of us sane(ish) 3 years ago will assist yourselves. I was tickled by one suggestion on the snooze site that you "do a MK Dons" to avoid liquidation. My suggestion, apart from him talking tosh as I couldn't see any PFC fan worth their salt (geddit) supporting such a obscene hybrid, was the Petersfield Frattonisers. You just know you can do better than that!
I was just trying to picture some-thing ridiculous in my head that would raise a smile. If we end up with a phoenix club in the Southern League Division One South and West, just imagine the "bubble" crossing Portsmouth Harbour on the Gosport Ferry for the Derby match against "The Boro"
That's if they don't go up dev. You could enter the Hampshire FA Cup though, final played at St Mary's.
If we did, I wonder if the record attendance will be broken. The current record is 21,000 and has stood since the 1932 final at The Dell between Newport IOW and Cowes
I heard something different - *cleans out ears* I thought it sounded like: "The Championship, the chamionionship, the chamionship is oh so dull, We're going down with the Donny Oh the championship is oh so dull" .....but I wasn't there.....and it seems far too polite to be a football chant!
The Championship - Is Upside-Down The Championship is upside-down We're going up with the Donny And the Scum are going down
We're going up with the Reading, Up with the Reading, We're going up with the Reading You boys refuse to lay down and die, so fair play to you.
Dev, we had that joke on our board last season! Only the punchline was 'Portaloo'. Poor Pompey always behind the times, and Southampton.
Get off our board Saints and go back to the New Forest and carry on fiddling with the ponies you Scummer !
Tut tut Singing. That sort of comment isn't really humour, although it could get you sent to the gallows
"Get off our board Saints and go back to the New Forest and carry on fiddling with the ponies you Scummer!" I don't know about the naughty step, but you have certainly been hiding behind smileys for too long.
I dont like stereotyping but how about the new name for your club having a further tweak to Chavant and Portalooville
