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A very fair point. You can't see the FL being that competent at overseeing how PFC are meant to manage their money and I'd doubt Portsmouth Council will watch it that hard either.

double post!!

It'll be within the planning application as an S106 agreement that money will be handed to the club for ground upgrades. Most developers have to pay S106 agreements to community causes / aiding the local economy etc as part of the pay off. In fact Tesco did exactly the same recently in Manchester where they paid a substantial sum to Lancs County Cricket Club to upgrade OT Cricket Ground in order to locate a Tesco Extra store nearby. This is why PFC are talking about the money being "ring-fenced". We'll have to wait to see the details of the planning application when it is submitted to Portsmouth Council.

It might be amusing to register an objection to the Tesco store and start a campaign opposing it at http://www.tescopoly.org/

Would it be wrong to each send a letter of objection to the Portsmouth Council Planning Committee stating that there are already enough supermarkets in the area and that the claimed 300 new jobs will be at the expense of independent traders who go bust? That there are concerns about the additional amount of traffic congestion that a new store would cause locally and that the land has not been allocated for retail development?

So true!

44, grew up in Southampton, lived in Manchester for 15 years after time in London and Liverpool. First game was a 0-0 draw with Luton Town at the Dell in 1978.

Pompey demand their clock back from creditors... but don't want to pay for it... http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/sport/pompey/pompey-fans-demand-give-us-back-our-clock-1-5223316 Effing unbelievable!

http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/sport/pompey/new-recruit-will-be-best-in-division-1-5218632 Pompey have been told they have signed the best central defender in League Two. Ricky Holmes believes new Blues team-mate Joe Devera will show himself to be the stand-out player in the division in his position next season. Holmes has no doubt his pal will prove his worth to Pompey, and shine as one of the league’s top talents in the new campaign. The 26-year-old has the inside track on Devera, who joined the Blues after leaving Swindon last month, with the pair team-mates from their days together at Barnet. Holmes, who arrived at Fratton Park himself last week after seeing his protracted move come to a fruitful conclusion, is excited by the impact Devera will have. Holmes admitted he was surprised to see the 26-year-old defender take the decision to drop down a division after leaving the County Ground. But he is confident that decision is good news for Pompey. Holmes said: ‘I was speaking to Portsmouth before Joe was. ‘He rang me and told me he had signed, so I told him I was hopefully coming along as well. ‘I spoke to him last week, too, and told him it was a done deal. ‘It will be good to see him and he’ll be a great signing for us. ‘I was surprised to see him drop into League Two because he’s an established League One player. ‘He’s a very good player, no doubt about it. ‘Swindon had an option on him and decided not to take it. I guess that came down to money in the end. ‘It’s a great signing for Portsmouth – massive. He’ll be the best centre-half in League Two, without a shadow of a doubt. So League 1 Swindon seemingly not prepared to pay the same wages as L2 Portsmouth... Here we go again!

It's just the standard language used to fool the deluded fans into spending money on season tickets etc.

A friend of mine went on holiday to Mozambique a couple of weeks ago. He went on a snorkelling trip and somehow got marooned on a reef as the boat left him behind when it departed. He started getting a bit worried until eventually he saw another boat and waved frantically to get its attention. He was hauled into the boat by none other than Boris Johnson who was also holidaying there!

26 going on 60 8:50 AM on 21/06/2013 More cracking news from Fratton Park!!! Who the hell do we pick for a starting XI!?! Nice having depth to choose from. This is so much more pleasant that Appletons quad he built from scratch, as GW's looks so much more balanced. "You dirty s(ummers, we're coming for you..."

I don't think it's necessarily good that Pompey have signed up a load of freebie players so early as they have got no where to go now and may miss out on better out of contract players between now and the end of the transfer window. I think it's a massive overreaction by Whittingham in response to the shambolic close seasons with no players that they have had the last two summers.

Yeurgh!!

Mistake on their website. http://www.oddschecker.com/football/english/championship/winner

My mum is not a forum reader, much to her cost. She decided to go to Romsey and the queue to the start of the M3 at Chilworth started by Highfield Church!

Alternatively they need to hire a Head of PR who can keep control of overblown and ill-disciplined egos.

Apparently they still haven't got their training ground sorted out. http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/22952043 It's all a far cry from the 2008 story below that states the new training ground will be a "state-of-the-art multi-million pound complex" with "10 full-size pitches, two mini pitches and a three-quarter-size pitch. The complex will be almost 10 times the size of the club's current training ground in Eastleigh." http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/p/portsmouth/7509518.stm

It's abundantly clear that Redknapp should be the full England manager and Appleton the U21 manager IMO.

Kinnear is hilarious. Top buffoon and dinosaur.

What I don't get is why Pompey are signing up all these freebies now rather than wait until the start of July. Perhaps they are not going to pay them until pre-season training starts?

I'd agree he hasn't done the biz for £12m and his attitude appears middling. I'd take a small loss.

Putney is a quicker ride into Waterloo by rail rather than Kew or Richmond to Victoria by underground. About the same rent prices. Depends where you are working in London to an extent.

Presumably the Saga one you have (not quite old enough yet) and Trousers' N&P card must swap your £/€ at a slightly higher floating rate than the official one. The same must apply to a pre-paid fixed exchange rate card. But I would expect that is still better than paying hidden fees per Euro transaction or even swapping currency back and forth at the post office. I wonder whether there is some comparison site that shows these things.