Ken Tone

Yes but so what? The club could then either fold or apply to non-league. It's not PKF's main job to keep them in the FL, if the alternative is better for the creditors.

Just as long as he doesn't have the team in for a drink before.

Anyone heard any news on Boruc ? Still 'dizzy', or fit to play?

You're talking sense yet again Minty. Spot on.

http://www.scotsman.com/the-scotsman/opinion/comment/brian-wilson-shetland-has-the-right-to-go-it-alone-1-2739336#.UPaCKGcZAns.twitter View on the Hebrides, Shetland and Orkney Isles position in relation to Scottish independence. Much of the oil is actually in waters that would belong to an independent Shetland, not the rest of Scotland.... and they are as close to Norway as they are to mainland Scotland!

As I said , what Scotland? Much of the present-day romantic notion of Scotland was effectively invented in Queen Victoria's day, when it was fashionable.

Exactly. And how much is 'much', or 'not much'? Given they haven't got a penny , any award to Kanu would be a problem.

Is this because they can't use the muliti-ball system any more? Just how inaccurate are they?

4-4-2 will never work in modem warfare. We must send another striker to support the left wing

It doesn't sound as if many of you actually heard the Radio 4 Today programme piece that started this. The bloke interviewed said he was only now going to receive £53 a week total income, because of the 'bedroom tax' reducing his benefits. (He has a 3 bedroom house ,which he doesn't want to leave because his kids stay with him 3 nights a week, but his ex-wife has official custody ,so they count as spare rooms.) The bloke had worked for years but lost his job a while back and had been unable to get proper work since, although he'd tried to set up as a market trader. At the end of the interview the presenter asked what he like to say to Duncan Smith, and he said 'ask him if he could live in £53 a week', so he did and IDs said ”if I had to I could". I've no idea if theTelegraph is correct in saying that since the interview it has emerged that the bloke gets some tax credits too.

that joke article ought nonetheless to remind "the Scots" that there is real doubt who 'the Scots" are. The Western Ises, the Orkneys ,Shetland, etc were never really part of a unified Scotland. In fact I'm not sure there ever was a unified Scoland..... even the famous battles such as Bannockburn were nearly as much Scot v Scot as Scot v English.

You had to look to discover that?!

the FL are creating a new interpretation of how to enforce their rules, and the reality is that Portsmouth cannot exit this season in admin, rather than not entering the next. Indeed. That is why the end of season date is 'interesting'. Whilst Whitey Grandad is quite corect about the FL rules simply saying they cannot start a second season in admin, the press a few weeks back quoted the FL as having told PFC that they must come out of admin by the end of this season. This apparently fine semantic point could make quite a big difference.

Exactly. They have got to come out of admin by the end of this season because they cannot start another season atill in admin. So the -10 becomes due then. The only question is will the FL apply it immediately or carry it over to next season if they are already relegated,as they would do with other points deductions. This precise situation (point deducted for failing previous CVA as opposed to for going into admin) is without precedent, so the FL can make it up as they go along. In Mawhinney's day there'd be little doubt that they've applied the punishment in whatever way caused the most damage. Now, it is less certain.

As I said .... significant section that was prepared to forgive him virtually anything, because, with a tolerant chuckle, "well, that's just the way Boris is, isn't it? Look at Italy and Berlusconi. Buffoons do get elected,and re-elected.

I've been at a relatively small conferecne where Johnson spoke, and indeed I asked him a question from the floor. In short he is all style over function. A charming buffoon, with, on that occasion at least, absolutely no idea what he was talking about .... at all. The audience reaction was fascinating however, ranging from "what a pillock" to "what he said was silly, but isn't he lovely". Nearly everyone there thought he had talked complete drivel, but there was a significant section that was prepared to forgive him virtually anything, because, with a tolerant chuckle, "well, that's just the way Boris is, isn't it? "

Absolutely this, but as with everything portsmouth related, it is not clear cut. I very much want to see them start L2 with new loans to service and no investment, as will be the case under the Trust's proposals, and with -10. If they sneak the -10 this season in spite of them being relegated anyway, that will mean they've "got away with it" yet again. After all , if morals came into it, they'd be using the extra £4million in parachute payments to give a bit more to the creditors they've shafted, instead of using it to underwrite the extra debts the Trust is clocking up to buy the club because the bestest fans only rasied £1.4 million of their own money.

Which exactly why Coventry can take the moral high ground. When they ran out of money, they used the novel tactic of stopping spending it .. an innovative approach that apparently never occurred to Portsmouth.

when is his 18th birthday?

The brighter ones have been studying at Peter Symonds College in Winchester for much longer than the Chichester link, in fact since immediately after the 1982 conflict. Many years ago, many of the older members of the community remember being sent to board in the UK at various schools, at age 11, in the days when that meant not seeing their parents for years at a time, because it was too far to travel home in the holidays, before the present-day regular flights began. Now they have a decent primary and secondary school to age 16 but come here for A levels and BTECs etc, and for any degree study (which they pay for as overseas students) As it probably pretty obvious from my comments on this thread, I have quite a few personal contacts with Islanders, and have visited there a couple of times. They are very British, and would be infuriated by Pap's trolling remarks about Argentina's claim and about oil money. Even without any eventual possible oil money, the community is already completely self-sufficent financially apart from paying for defence. If it weren't for Argentina's constant bullying, they would need no UK help at all. But they would still keep up the links and would still very much want to be attached to Britain. They are very grateful for the sacrifices made on their behalf in 1982, and do a lot for veterans. There is even some purpose-built accommodation in Stanley, provided by the community, for visiting veterans to stay in. Quite a few follow Saints btw!

Yes, but don't forget he's moved with his family into this area. (Winchester?) Reading is commutable. Leeds, although a better job, is not.

Not that old one again! 1. Isle of wight is, what, 2 mles of the coast of England. Falkands are well over 200 miles from Argentina. By that basis, the UK should be claiming most of France and Belgium, and bits of Holland 2. Argentina have never held the Falklands as undisputed territory 3. The only "Argentinian" occupation of the islands only lasted about 15-20 years , consisted of a very dodgy 'free enterprise' and ended in piracy afer they murdered the 'governor', till the Americans threw them off for attacking their whaling ships. And actually that happend before Argentina as a country existed really. It was the predecessor state. Plus, when it happened, Britain never accepted the legitimacy of their occupation, having claimed the unoccupied islands decades before and having had several temporary settlements before this incursion. 4. The only real legal basis for the Argentinian claim is that the Pope in the 15th century 'gave' that whole area of the world (largely at that stage undiscovered ) to Spain, and the River Plate state that preceded Argentina was a Spanish colony, so they claim they 'inherited' Spain's rights in the area 5. The current population includes some whose ancesotrs have ived therwe since 1833 ,with no Argentinian presence in all that time

It's the classic Machiavellian strategy of covering up problems at home by uniting agianst a common enemy. Argentina is in a mess. The Falkands is an issue that will stir up emotions every time, and turn attention away from their failing economy etc. The Pope as an Argentinian, will a) presumably be as indoctrinated over this issue as most of them are, and b) has in his previous roles been seen to support their claim. I'd have been very surprised in Kerchner had not 'surfed' the publicity of his appointment to gain more publicity for the claim. I would hope though, that now he is pope and in a position where he should be more objective and measured, he will simply politely ignore this.

Well yes and no. Delayed gratification is best. Besides, by that time the FL will have no possible excuse to take the points off this season if the trust are successful, and surely will have to make them start in L2 on -10?

I'm impressed that she checked her inbox before she jumped. Shows a real commitment to tying up loose ends for those left behind. Bet she'd done the washing up at home too!