Pompey are apparently 48 hours from liquidation

I don't believe for a single second that the FA or the FL would bend the rules to help Pompey out.

There will be a reason that the players haven't (yet, as far as we know) been sold for the first offer to come our way. We will not be told though because we are just fans/supporters and it will be deemed to be none of our business.

I think this is just the media making a story.

 

Yes Fran. Sell the players and it looks like relegation, keep them and it looks like liquidation. Neither scenario is palatable for any club but relegation is infinitely preferable to oblivion!

 

Isn't there a rule were if a club faces a winding up order they can't sell players??.

 

There's an old saying. If you want to buy an elephant it will cost you a fortune. If you want to sell an elephant you get what you can.

 

Once it's granted in February..not if they're facing it surely. Otherwise no one could avoid a WUO by paying their bills. Don't know though.

 

It's just a winding-up petition at the moment. If it becomes a winding-up order in February, then things will be very different. Although, my knowledge is shaky. There was a legal expert on here a few days ago, maybe he can elaborate.

 

Hot Bovril is the expert, he works in insolvency so he does know what he's talking about.

 

That's the guy I was thinking of, thanks 3rd Eye.

 

That's OK - I should have added that he's part of your collective

 

Mate, some good points, but please don't compare a football club to what was an absolutely atrocious time in history. Football doesn't matter, war and racial discrimination does

 

So you agree that they should get away with it? you feel that they shouldn't have to sell players? you feel that actually... they haven't been disgraceful in their business dealings?

 

Don't take the term literally... what I'm saying is simple.

Portsmouth are to football what Nazi Germany was to the world... your crimes in football don't compare to those of Nazi Germany... but if the Nazi's had a football club, it would be named PFC.

you take things literally as if I'm comparing the too, and that's crazy.

 

I would think everyone can agree that not paying your taxes is pretty dumb, especially after going to court over not paying your taxes once before.

I would also propose that when you have outstanding bills like the current ones, it is not an unreasonable thing to ask that the business dispose of saleable assets in order to pay those bills.

 

I don't usually call for people to be banned or anything, but I think someone should ban redandwhitecomrade or at least talk to him. The sheer appallingness that he can compare a football club, regardless of rivalry or whether we sell players or not, to Nazi Germany, a regime which murdered millions of people directly and indirectly in one of the most awful and brutal wars in human history is sickening beyond belief and offensive to the memory of those who died during the Second World War.

 

Yes they should sell players and shouldn't get preferentially treatment should it go tits up.

But comparing them to Nazi Germany is unbelievable!

 

The further we get from the horrors of Nazi Germany the more people forget and throw these words around.

 

Please Mods, have a word with this joker, you don't often get this kind of unanimity between Saints and Pompey fans!

 

Agree with the others, 'redandwhitecomrade' does have valid points but the whole 'Nazi Germany' thing is stupid, offensive and undermines these otherwise valid points

 

I have banned him for 3 days, enough time to calm down. This was upon request from 3 different members on PM