No, it's not groundhog day, and no we haven't entered some kind of time loop and ended up back in 2010, but the PST (whom I'd trust a lot more to honour their pledge than a certain other individual who made a similar pledge) says they will pay back all creditors from our most recent administration who are owed £2,500 or less in full. How nice of them. Sucks if you are owed £2,501 though. http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/sport/p...ay-2012-small-creditors-every-penny-1-5468026
You can also check out on The News today which of our former players are owed money and exactly how much. Doesn't make nice reading!
Nice gesture by the PST. I hope that a*$e*ole Chanrai reads about this - he is beyond any decency whatsoever.
The club began repaying players in May of this year, with all 25 needing to be paid in full by July 2016 to meet the terms laid out in the latest administration. That means Pompey will spend at least £108,449.70 a month on former players for the next 35 months. WHO PORTSMOUTH OWE AND HOW MUCH DAVID NUGENT £143,250- 40 monthly payments of £3,581.25. DAVID JAMES £145,921.90 – 40 months of £3,648.05. KANU £155,314.50 – three lump-sum payments of £51,771.50 in March 2014, 2015 and 2016. BENJANI £214,572.73 – 40 months of £5,364.32. HAYDEN MULLINS £632,281.32 – 28 monthly payments of £21,867.19. One lump-sum payment of £20,000 in January 2016. AARON MOKOENA £288,844.80 – 40 months of £7,225.92. DAVID NORRIS £182,729.92 – 40 months of £4,568.26. ARUNA DINDANE £176,245.03 – 40 months of £4,406.13. LUKE VARNEY £153,818 – 40 months of £3,845. ERIK HUSEKLEPP £40,000 – lump-sum payment of £20,000 in January 2014 and January 2015. HASSAN YEBDA £264,491.44 – 40 months of £6,612.29. STEPHEN HENDERSON £42,935.86 – 40 month of 1,073.40. GREG HALFORD £162,802.76 – 40 months of £4,070.07. RICARDO ROCHA £165,136.61 – 40 months of £4,128.40. JAMIE ASHDOWN £78,731.92 – 40 months of £1,968.30. JASON PEARCE £29,162.51 – 40 months of £729.06. HERMANN HREIDARSSON £42,935.86 – 40 months of £1,073.40. KELVIN ETUHU £3,000 – one payment made on Aug 30, 2013. JOEL WARD £20,206.57 – 40 months of £505.16. STEVE FINNAN £88,312.50 – 40 months of £2,207.81. MICHAEL BROWN £472,375 – lump-sum payment of £200,000 on Aug 30, 2013. 40 months of £6,809.38. RICHARD HUGHES £372,484.42 – lump-sum payment of £200,000 on Aug 30, 2013. 40 months of £4,312.11. LIAM LAWRENCE £616,666.54 – lump-sum payment of £200,000 on Aug 30, 2013. 40 months of £10,416.67. DAVE KITSON £608,333.36 – lump-sum payment of £150,000 on Aug 30, 2013. 40 months of £11,458.33. TAL BEN HAIM £1,633,333.36 – lump-sum payments of £650,000 on Aug 30, 2013 and £150,000 on Aug 31, 2014. 40 months of £20,833.33. *Kanu payment will be split in accordance with an Order of Finance Disciplinary Committee.
All these payments are covered by the parachute payments. That has been known for a long time, also the overall amount. The breakdown was covered by non-disclosure agreements - it was the PFA which filed the breakdown at companies house, which is where the News found the information. Has anyone noticed the missing name?
The answer is David Lampitt. Despite being an employee of PFC he was treated as a football creditor. He managed to get the full amount owed to him paid by the PL from the parachute payments directly - because he knew how to do it. What a disgrace. The second admin happened on his watch. At least 17 of the above footballers are down to him. And now he is the chief executive of supporters direct - an organisation which is supposedly campaigning against the football creditors rule.
He was an absolute and unmitigated disaster - from beginning to end. I heard that if he hadn't left for this job the FA would have been binning him anyway. Now he's talked his way into supporters direct - I notice they've not set the footballing world alight since he's been there.
Not really Stewie. It's all a matter of perspective. The only Jews I really knew all worked for charities - hardly money spinning jobs. Fans may balk at the amounts of monies footballers command for their 'talents' but for them it's a job and it's business. TBH had no special feeling for Pompey, or indeed any club. He was/is plying his trade to the highest bidder, he was given a contract and demanded that it was honoured. We may not like it, or him, but he did nothing wrong. How many of us would truly be happy to walk away from a rather rich business and/or business owner with nothing?
Talking of Jewish steoreotypes, you watching that programme on BBC2 the Story of the Jews by Simon Schauma? Quite interesting, and he's a great historian (much better than than overrated and slightly mental David Starkey).
You've got to have stereotypes for jokes to work. When I was young it was all Irish jokes - and nobody can tell an Irish joke like an Irish man. But my favourite comedian ever, was Dave Allen - nobody could tell a Catholic joke like he could.
To my mind, Frankie Boyle bases most of his "humour" by making extremely offensive jokes. Does anyone find him at all funny ?
I'm afraid Frankie Boyle has completely passed me by although I have read a couple of things about him. I'm not much of a tv watcher, have always preferred the radio. But "offensive jokes" is an oxymoron. A joke has a humorous intention. Offensive is designed to hurt someone/or a class of people. So on that basis you can't have an offensive joke, although some offensive remarks will amuse some people and not all jokes will amuse everyone.
Frank Carson was pretty good at Irish humour too. It was the way he told them. A guy you might not know so well is Brendan Grace. Father Ted viewers may recall him as the thuggish priest Father Finton Stack. This is his drunk "Father of the Bride speech" [video=youtube;T-dFgQGT9wQ]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-dFgQGT9wQ[/video]
Right, hopefully this works. To get back to the PFC feelgood factor (which I spoilt in the first place!). So PFC organised a day at the club today where you could have your picture taken with the team (they were doing the official photo today) as well as other events like watching training, a stadium tour and having lunch in the Boardroom. I got this as a treat for my Dad and having finally gotten him off the phone (it was liking talking to an excitable child) he told me the best bit was winning this signed shirt in a raffle. Needless to say, he's ever so slightly pleased. It sounded like everyone made themselves available to talk (he got to talk to Guy and Iain McInnes amongst others). Doing things like this (it wasn't extortionate and can't have had much of an impact on the money-making side) really demonstrate how the club are making themselves accessible to all. Anyway, well to all at the club. You've made an old man very happy. PUP.
Tragically no one will ever answer for it. Someone should post this on the QPR board. Sorry to lower the tone. Re Frankie Boyle, not that bothered about him but the way he managed to sue the Mirror for libel was comedy gold.
