Ken Tone

Extracts from a 2012 article based on an interview with the head of the FI police (who also runs the prison, which is actually part of the police station) "The prison is located below the police station and at the time we spoke there were four prisoners, all serving lengthy sentences for child abuse.Mardsen explained: “People think we only tackle child abuse and we don’t tackle anything else. The reality is we don’t have murders, burglaries. . . we don’t have extreme violence and we don’t have robberies. Not in recent times. So therefore the reason why our prison population consists of people convicted of child abuse is because we don’t see the serious offences you would see in another society." “The reality is that very little anti-social behaviour happens in Stanley or whether it be out in Camp (places outside Stanley). There isn’t actually very much need for us to go out to Camp because not many crimes are happening. The only times we tend to have to deploy out to Camp is when there has been a traffic collision or if there has been an incident where someone has hurt themselves.” "In fact the people of the Falklands Islands are so peaceful they very rarely lock their doors! We were told about a bicycle that was thought stolen and reported but it later turned out that the owner may have simply forgotten where he left it."

Some serious crimes would be tried in the UK, and indeed long prison sentences served here, so this makes their own tiny prison population very unrepresentative, but nonetheless, they do indeed have a few problems that I understand are quite common amongst island communities. (Ring any bells?!) They have a surprisingly large police force for the size of population too. It is also a very hard-drinking (and smoking) society compared with modern Britain; many offences are drink-related, rather than for example premeditated theft.

I'm still waiting for the "absolutely definitely pre-arranged -- he's really only on loan to us" transfer of Schneiderlin to Arsenal to take place as predicted by so many. Must be about 4 years overdue now? As to Ramirez, interesting that Solent today ran an interview with Pocchetino on Gaston, saying basically that he is a potential world class player, and that he is still adapting.

This. Transfer fees are only half of the story nowadays -- in fact probably less than half.

Even you must get tired of your own trolling comments sometimes, surely? Adkins has a contract. He is entitled to see its conditions honoured, regardless of your opinion of him as a manager. If Saints are not paying him what the contract says he should get, then he is perfectly right to take us to a tribunal. If, on the other hand, we are paying him what the contract says, but simply not being more generous than that, then tough, he'll deservedly lose his case. It's a shame that a manager who served the club so well ends up in dispute like this, but none of us know what went on out of the public eye, any more than we did with Pardew, or for that matter than we will when Pochettino eventually leaves.

The one spoilt ballot was a surprise though!

Maybe they sent us a false Forren imposter and kept the real one? After all, if we can be sold horse as beef , presumably we can be sold a donkey as a CB ?

On the 'Argentina upping the ante on Falklands' thread I predicted 3 ''no" votes. Can I have John Snow's job now please?

Hadn't heard there was any postal voting in this? And the few mobile polling stations have to cover an area of land equal in size to Wales, with few roads in the remote areas, plus a fair bit of the area is made up of lots of small separate islands some of which have only a single farm settlement on them. In some parts ,it can take an hour to travel a few miles even in a good 4x4 Make no mistake, some islanders will have had to make real effort to vote. They really care about this issue.

There are also one or two Argentinians and other South Americans eligible to vote. It is a genuine democracy, unlike Argentina's own history. I expect about 3 votes against and the rest for remaining British. The main interest will be the turn out. Even with mobile polling stations , some parts of west falkland or some of the outlying islands in particular are so remote that it will be a real effort to vote

I can't anything in that article to suggest that the FA are even considering action. Is there any information to the effect that the referee has reported anything ? Or is this just a reporter making a story up?

Well I think he has been the bargain buy of the season, albeit far better as a CB than as a RB, but even playing out of position today , he made 2 goal-saving interceptions.

I with Birtles. Obvious time for puncheon rather than Guly

it'll make our winning goal in the 89th minute all the more pleasing

Except he's just saved a goal

Fair point. So good news for the country's biggest community owned club then ....... promotion for Ebbsfleet at last?

And of course Pompey fans would see no problem, or even irony, in the fans of another club suffering by their club being demoted out of their league at short notice to make room for the mighty PFC to join instead.

Far lower, in fact nowhere, because surely it is now too late to apply to join ANY semi pro league for next season? They'd have to go a season with no football at all, then join. IF there is still any club after that year, and IF they somehow have a ground (Fratton or reasonable alternative) then I suppose there is some chance that a fairly senior non-league might admit them. But those are pretty big 'IFs'.

Pay? .... Rent? .... .?

So, to try to return the thread tote topic of portsmouth, are we clear that they are going to receive an additional £4 million in parachute payments ,above the original amounts , because the PL has more TV money? Or is this just another myth? If it is true ,then they will be able to afford to repay the PCC and Robinson loans. And will in effect mean they are using the pp's to buy the club.

Stil no date for the court hearing? Or have I missed it? I noticed that BBC south today said that the council loan was agreed only hours before it had to be , implying the court had said put up or shut up in effect

i think you might be. Isn't it that the original amount of pp's would be used to cover the football creditors ,but the extra £4 million will be us to repay the loans from the council and Robinson, that they are using to buy the club (and of course no one is paying the debts of the club as such .... Only a tiny fraction of them)

The trust often push this line that more pledges will be add and honoured once (if) they are safe, but surely human nature is such that once they are safe, no one will feel the need to give any more? Why should Mr Average PFC fan, give £1000 if his club is secure anyway?

Lol. Reads just like a transcript of a fly on the wall documentary Rallyboy. Almost too realistic.

Yes but that would require someone, who is not a fan, to buy Gaydamak's land then underwrite the PCC loan and also lend them some money himself so that the trust go ahead with more debt than they can service, so that when the club default on the repayments they can't afford, the ground will also belong to him, so he can eventually develop the lot for a big profit. Thank goodness no one has thought of that ....Oh!