Ken Tone

Nah ....surely the first thing Pardew will do is buy a few spare full-backs. You can never have enough full-backs.

No ..another hoax as these warnings nearly alays are. See http://www.hoax-slayer.com/108-18.shtml

And 3 of those injured earlier were Russians. Clearly the Israelis have been training these sharks very carefully !

On second thoughts I see now that this was clearly a guarded reference to the Churchill Insurance group planning a takeover. You heard it here first. As one poster said so sagely, rumours start somewhere. We've just started this one. How long before it is on the Echo or the Sun?

Before or after he was a liberal?

Are all the stands open this time? Nothing about ST-holders claiming own seats?

If you are an English teacher, I think you need to check the difference in usage between 'imply' and 'infer', which is nearly as important as the difference between 'affect' and 'effect'. You are clearly using 'infer' when you mean 'imply'. I'll gloss over the spelling of 'inference' and 'dumbing', giving you the benefit of the doubt and assuming that those were typographical errors rather than spelling errors as such. For what it's worth, overall, personally, I agree with you.

I thought we were going for a Guinness book of records entry on this thread?! I too noticed that the pompey website and Primus's quote only say the charity is happy . It does not say the money has actually been paid. I interpret that as the charity is still waiting on a promise, and does not want to upset the club too much until it does get some money, just in case.

You are affected by an effect. As said already 'affect' is a verb; 'effect' is a noun....usually. However what causes some of the confusion is that actually effect is also a verb, albeit one with a different meaning, and one that is not very commonly used. To effect mean 'to do', in the sense of carry out. 'The result was affected by ....' and 'The result was effected by ...' have completely different meanings. The second phrase would be used when describing how the result had been brought about, whereas the first means how it was influenced or changed. It is this difference in meaning that makes using the correct spelling important. Using the wrong one actually changes the meaning of the sentence.....it affects it significantly in fact.... it isn't just a matter of looking good.

Hasn't Tony Adams's agent installed him as favourite yet? Must be slipping!

Did no one else listen to Radio Solent this morning? Classic media approach on Solent. The Sun reported yesterday that Saints were up for sale. Solent's headline was "Saints refuse to comment on story". Then in detail of story they admitted that Saints' policy is never to comment on media speculation and then said .. anyway Solent 'understands that the speculation is wide of the mark' !! So Solent are both hyping the story to get listeners interested and then pretty much saying it is nonsense. 'Wide of the mark' does not give much credence to the Sun's 3 lines of gossip in an obscure bit of the paper, not even repeated on line, but still if you lot would rather work yourselves up into lather about the evil empire striking back etc, then you go for it!

Found this link if anyone has the stamina to read it. http://www.internationallawoffice.com/newsletters/detail.aspx?g=fc2b3865-e7f2-461d-9963-d54d10f0fb5c Looks like Swiss law does pass assets on immediately BUT it all gets complicated when international assets are involved. Might Markus even still count as German rather than Swiss in relation to this?

I'd expect the phrase 'estate of...' to be used until probate was sorted out. As I posted once before I have no idea about Swiss law, but if this was in the UK it could easily take a year to sort probate on such a complicated and large estate. So I suppose, to answer my own question, it may be that no one quite owns us yet. We could still be in limbo waiting for probate to pass legal ownership to ... ?

Sorry to interrupt all the 'funny' red herrings, but has anyone got a clear family tree for Markus's branch of the family? Is Katharina his only child, or is there also a son as I read somewhere once? Are we owned by any particular individual member of the family, or by the Mali group? Is the show-jumper Christina (?) related? Are any Leibherrs actually definitely attending games regularly? If so, who? Trying to get a clear picture in my mind of who in the family matters, and who in the family cares about Saints.

Got a link or a quote? Can't see anything in the web version.

I think the reason he gets so much stick is that he is clearly only in professional football because his father gave him contracts at the clubs he managed, and then he was effectively dumped on us, reputedly as part of some obscure behind-the-scenes deal, leaving us to pay him more for basically doing nothing than most Saints fans could hope ever to earn, and clearly more than he is worth. I mean, for God's sake he is about 27 yet only has a grand total of about 27 league games for his entire career! I sincerely hope, if only for the sake of his self-respect, that he finally makes a career of sorts at Stockport, but I do wonder if they'll keep him on if/when they have to pay all his wages.

Sleeves ? Wimp!

In fact what they are trying to do is get Benjani to pay back a 'loan' that they should never have given him, in full and up front, so that they can eventually, over 4 years, pass on 20% of it to their poor creditors, and keep the rest themselves. 'Unbelievable' hardly covers it!

Lol. And of course the Ispwich fans call the Norwich fans 'skates' , because of their propensity to abuse fish landed in nearby Yarmouth? (But since I went to uni in N'orch ('a fine city'), and I can't stand Roy Keane, my sympathies in that particular derby were definitely anti-Ipswich )

Now Pompey are pursuing money owed to them by a player ,who didn't pay his own agent , so they paid for him!!! http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/sport/Blues-to-take-Benjani-legal.6644128.jp Maybe he should offer 20 p in the pound ,eventually! The Pompey and money saga -- It's just the gift that keeps on giving

No, the telly will go nuts about Man U v Liverpool (yawn) , which once again shows the pundits know nothing about being a fan. Giant-killing is what the cup is about , not yet another boring premiership v premiership game.

Not a bad draw IMO. Underdogs at home v premiership, however hard it may be to accept our role in that. This is when the cup gets exciting .. playing teams from higher divisions, as opposed to those from below. So as long as they open the kingsland I'll be going.

Quite. I don't see how Wembley felt able to agree to host the champoins league game when the FL contract precedes it. Could be some hefty compensation involved uness the contract allows for a cancellation in such a circumstance

Hey I'm on Kelvin's side, but the fact remains that he did shove the guy in the back, and hard enough to knock him over. My point was simply that some refs might just as well have taken a dim view of that as of the elbow on Barnard ..and it was an elbow, not a punch as such.

Mind you the ref also overlooked Kelvin pushing their forward over in the box as he tried to get the ball off him for a kick. On another day that could have been a sending off.