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Think you'll find that that's a warning to the casual googler that there's a gagging order in place. Well, media blackout anyway.

Alice, Alice, who the **** is Alice?

I read it as 2 charges against PS, one jointly with MM from 2010 and one from 2009. But I'm no expert in these matters, honest. From what I've seen, Harry is being tried separately in July, but the cases may be linked, hence the current media gag.

The daily list gets posted here just after 10 every morning. Coming to the end of the 4th week now and still going strong.

It's already gone. Last year they got the ST income from the cc Companies on a match by match basis, so they had some income every month to help pay the expensive loanee wages. This year through the "exclusive" Zebra Finance deal (AFAWK) they got the money up front. What Chainrai couldn't get his hands on has already gone towards the summer wages bill

How much of next season's season ticket money have we spent so far?

You're assuming some of us don't find his original tweet positive and uplifting

Yep, that works. in itunes: Edit>select all Right click>copy Then paste into a spreadsheet and save as .csv The rating field is blank, though, but everything else is there.

This is how to organise your pre-season. Take note, Nicola. I particularly liked these bits: "The game against Charleston Battery, a USL Pro side, is the highlight of Pompey’s pre-season tour of the United States ... In recent years the Battery have hosted Jamaican Premier League side Village United and last July lost 2-0 in an international exhibition game against Premier League Bolton in front of a sell-out crowd of 5,249." They'll certainly feel at home

I can confirm that it's bloody freezing down here this morning on midwinter's day. Had to scrape the ice off my windscreen. HTH

Not something I've done, but wouldn't you rather sync the info on the ipod with itunes, and export the file from itunes?

He had his pick of the very best English talent once, and I don't remember that going too well.

I have to disagree. The vast, vast, vast majority of sub-Saharan Africans have enough to eat. When there is isolated drought or famine, it is all over the 1st world media. It is newsworthy. Disease is everywhere, even in the better developed better fed countries. How many times did you wonder today whether one of your colleagues with a cough has TB? How many lepers have you seen today? Polio victims? Many of the vaccinations are for debilitating rather than fatal diseases. Why should the children suffer? Sick children put an even greater strain on already stretched family resources, and limit earning potential.

I'm not sure DRS is a great idea. It only works because teams choose to run high downforce wings for the corners, at the expense of top speed. Nobody forces them to do that. DRS was, fortunately or unfortunately, introduced at the same time as the switch to new tyres, so it's not really possible to say whether this year's overtaking is down to DRS or tyres. I'm with Baj on this, that I think the tyres are having a much greater impact than DRS. I think if the tyre restrictions were removed, you would have far more exciting racing without DRS on most tracks (Monaco excepted). Why are teams restricted to only the same 2 compounds for each race, and have to run both? Let them choose, from hard compounds with 0 stops to softer compounds with 3 or 4 stops, and watch the overtaking, without the need for DRS. Maybe go back to more than 1 supplier. But I would keep the requirement to start the race on the tyres you qualified on, to eliminate the "one-lap" wonders. And the reason for so many safety cars in wet weather is because the teams choose to run the floor too close to the ground, again to gain a downforce advantage, but the cars are undriveable in any more than a few mm's of standing water. If wet weather is predicted, they could raise the running height, at the expense of downforce in the dry/damp conditions. If we're not careful the aerodynamaticists will spoil the fun of the sport. They're cars, not eurofighters.

Personally I blame Wigan. If it wasn't for them we'd be out of the relegation zone already.

On Hewlett Packards in caravans?

On Hewlett Packards in caravans?

It's back on again today in Court 7

My guess, FWIW, is: They've bought the club for Chainrai's debt plus the CVA. So that's around £30 - £35 million, payable roughly half now (BC) and half in 4 years time (CVA). When Chainrai's been paid, his fixed and floating charges, which were transferred over to the new Co. by the administrator, will be removed. Chainrai's looking for £15 - £20 million, so that will either be cash up front, or some of Phil's magical "instruments" which may be either payable on demand or future-dated (irrevocable but payable on a date some time in the future). The charge over Fratton Park will stay until all of the instruments have been cashed. Any deal over the adjacent land for redevelopment or expansion is nothing to do with Chainrai. They will need a separate deal with Gaydamak. There is no word on whether they have one or not. All of that is done and dusted for the next few years. The current issue is how much more actual cash are they going to put in every month from now onwards. They need around 15 new players. If they're happy to aim for another absolutely brilliant season by just avoiding relegation, then that's an average of, say, £5k a week each (£500k a month incl. PAYE/NI). If they want to be competitive, make that average £10k (£1 million a month incl. PAYE/NI). Conservatively the 8 players thay have on their books at the moment are probably costing them around £100k a week + PAYE/NI (£650k a month). So that's a (player) wage bill of somewhere between £1.1 and £1.6 million a month next season. On the assumption that the parachute payments have already been spoken for, the UHY cash flow from last year shows that they generate around £1.3 million a month from normal operatons, and have expenses of around £550k a month. That leaves £750k for players wages & PAYE/NI. They appear to be short of somewhere between £350k and £850k a month, depending on the quality (cost) and quantity of their new signings. I guess that's the conversation Mr. Lampitt will be having with CSI Portsmouth in Cyprus this week.

Eric was just biding his time, waiting for a chance to sneak across the playing field for a proper educashun.

I agree with Weston - it's six. Since this thread started less than 2 years ago. Although to appease the pedants we might consider pluralising "Takeover" in the thread title. I'm enjoying their 5-year plan almost as much as ours:- Will Saints get to the Premier League? Will the CVA creditors ever see a penny?

I don't think unable is the right word to use. They just haven't paid them. They are so made for each other.

People were crying out for impact from the bench when Papa & Antonio went. He fits that bill in my book. And he's ours.

Any room for the Milton in there somewhere?

Strange the silence surrounding the Mandaric/Storrie trial. Day 2 of a full-blown jury trial, and not a peep anywhere (apart from on here, that is).