Channon's Sideburns

Remember people, it ain't over until the boss eyed Fat Lady sings. This thread just got a shot of Lucozade.

Christ with logic like that son, you should take over....

Ahh, the gift that won't stop giving.... http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/sport/pompey/pompey-past/great-matches/blues_may_be_hit_with_extended_bill_for_pair_1_2726815?utm_content=Twitter&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed:%20FrattonLatest%20(Portsmouth.co.uk%20-%20Pompey%20Newsletter)&utm_source=feedburner

Meanwhile, filed under 'You could not make it up' category, this just arrived in my inbox....... ---- Portsmouth Football Club has stepped in to sponsor the 'Next Steps' event allowing us to halve the price of tickets to £7 per delegate! Tuesday 7th June, 9am-12:30pm, at Portsmouth Football Club A growing number of business and public sector leaders have been working on a joined up and focused approach to shaping the future of our city. Join us to tackle the burning issues raised by the wider business community. The discussions on the 7th June will include: - Portsmouth’s future development plans and how these can be funded - the Passion for Portsmouth survey - the new Solent Local Enterprise Partnership - improving links between business and the city’s schools to raise achievement - ideas for the development of the Hard and Naval Base ------- ERRR???? HANG ON...YOU CAN'T PAY A CONTRACTED MEMBER OF STAFF IN EXCESS OF 700K WAGES, BUT YOU'RE SPONSORING EVENTS TO GIVE THE IMPRESSION YOU'RE LOADED?

Ah well, I bet Becks is happier today, well back near to the most annoying offspring of Neville Neville...he at least gets his bag carrier again for an evening...

Trouble is Rallyboy, Lampitt's been in now for what, a year? By all accounts he's had loads of time to steady the ship. Mark my words, Pompey have just had our season under Mikey Wilde. Now next they can enjoy 2011-12 - their 'Dutch Experiment' season. Apart from the fact they've let all their kids go. Clueless.

Lumpitt reckons they've been 'under extreme financial distress'?!?! Stop paying over the odds for players you can't afford then numpty boy - it ain't rocket science. You haven't learned.

What's more bizarre is that said 'player' is thick enough to think, on the advice of his lawyer that he can sue everyone on Twitter. Look - I said thick and footballer in the same sentence without realising....haha If anyone wanted the evidence of how protected a bubble these idiots live in, there's it right there. Clueless.

The explanation is pure damage limitation - how best to keep a lid on it all than install someone who knows the FA rules inside out?

Cheers, turns out that it's a problem with Adobe Flash - apparently they're 'working on it'. Hellfire.

It was a protection of the Premier League 'brand' that's for sure. That said, they failed - the brand is tarnished as despite their desperate attempts to keep the cheats afloat, they still ended up in Admin = brand tarnished anyway. We could have a field day on here about unanswered questions - did the Premier League ask for evidence of Ali Al Faraj's passport to prove his identity? If they DIDN'T then they have a lot more questions to answer.... Why does a FA member of staff suddenly jump ship to the most unenticing club on the planet?

Didn't the club spin some pony about an impending takeover which would solve it's ills? The basic fact is this. If MY limited company would have been in Portsmouth's situation last January, it would have died in the courtroom - GUARANTEED. The depth of the cover-up I feel is VERY deep and goes to the heart of football in the UK. THEY know that they covered it all up, therefore THEY will do anything they can to stop the truth coming out. Will THEY come forward? Who are THEY? Recent TV appearances when quizzed by certain business legends were very telling. Supporting a business which is openly breaking UK company law when trading insolvently SHOULD be investigated. Will it be though?

Thanks for the reply - have tried this but can't find anything obvious...help!

Dubai Phil will like this one... I heard this evening that Mr Chinnery has been splashing the cash - not necessarily into the Skates mind. Apparently invested $1.6M at a special event in Hong Kong.

I've recently upgraded to IE9 on my laptop, but when pages load, animated bits on the page (like the clock on the BBC website) are suddenly appearing in the top LH corner of my screen - why is this? Anyone know of a fix? Cheers

First pic from the new owners' initial Board Meeting... 'So then, where's the monkey petting zoo going?'

To be fair, I've been ready to resurrect it for years. Just never got the call from Nicholl/Branfoot/Ball/Souness/Merrington/Jones/and all the others. I've been on the bus for years on this one...

Well it's the land of spin and PR hype of organisations and people who you wouldn't trust....natural fit wouldn't you think?

Ahem...Neil McCann...hell I can go back to the days of Sergei Gotsmanov....Ken Armstrong...Keith Cassells...Andrei Kanchelskis....Lucien Mettomo...David Hirst...David Speedie...Kerry Dixon...Alan McLoughlin... THERE ARE HUNDREDS OF WASTERS THAT WE WASTED THOUSANDS ON...

TBH everything on interest rates will be clearer nearing the end of the year - the banks have to pay back the money given to them under the Special Liquidity Scheme, which is why lending has been tighter. Everything will start to happen at once - expect rate rises to begin in the last few months this year (but only by 0.25% at a time) and the lenders will also turn the tap (slowly) back on. They'll have to - because the amount of people at risk when rates rise is HUGE - LTSB's mortgage book (which includes C&G, Halifax etc) has over 70% of mortgage holders on their variable rate of 2.5%.. If you know anyone who has a mortgage, they need to review it as soon as possible - waiting for rates to rise first is a false economy, because as soon as they rise, you watch the banks rack up the profits by raising the fixed rates.. I speak from experience, I spent over a decade working for high street lenders.

It's the continual feed on 'Pompey's Plans for 2011/12' in the Snooze that makes me laugh...pure propaganda designed to convince the few that their future has a bit of a rosy tinge to it. Reminds me of the two old professors on the Mary Whitehouse Experience..... 'See that player over there who can't get a game anywhere else? That's your top summer signing that is....'

'Wait until you get a lot of my Mini-me...and I destroy Portsmuff with a laaassseerrrrr....'

Was Guy Askham there then?!

'Next person who asks me if I'm Gino D'Campo gets it...'

From the Guardian last week - http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2011/may/06/fa-faw-cardiff-swansea The taxman cometh The football creditors' rule could be overturned as soon as November after a high court hearing on Thursday into the Plymouth Argyle insolvency led to HM Revenue & Customs challenging it again. The controversial rule, which protects footballers and other clubs at the expense of other unsecured creditors, has long been a bugbear for the taxman. HMRC has lost tens of millions of pounds in football insolvencies since losing its preferential-creditor status in 2003. But, whereas Sir George Anthony Mann announced as the judge in the Portsmouth insolvency case last August that he was not equipped to rule on the football creditors' rule without a separate case to examine it, Sir Guy Newey decided he would. In the meantime there has been a football-governance inquiry by a parliamentary select committee at which even senior football figures such as Manchester United's chief executive, David Gill, have declared the rule indefensible. The new case is scheduled for 28 November – the privileged protections for millionaire footballers over insolvent clubs' local-community suppliers are not likely to survive.