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The whole Rooney/Heskey/Crouch debate is pointless. Rooney is just frustrated, that's why he keeps dropping further and further back during each game. If we played Rooney, Crouch, Heskey, Drogba AND Torres we won't score. It's the supply chain. Either fix Lennon's fear or replace him. Put Joe Cole on the other side. And let Defoe run his socks off around the box. Get the ball into the box. Apart from goals, there are penalties to be had with the inexperienced officials there. And 2 requests for Capello: Tell the players who's in the team as soon as you decide, and If it's not working, change it after 20 minutes, not 60.

I like the way all the NZ fans take their tops off when they're winning. Including the women. Could that catch on at SMS?

If the unsecured debt is £120m then they have to pay back £24m over 5 years, not £6m. Do the sums - just under £100k a week, in tranches. After the deductions to pay the football creditors, the parachute payments will go to the club, not the creditors. The Directors will have to ensure that they don't pay too much on transfer fees or wages (or hand it over to "secured" creditors) so that there is a profit, which will be used to pay the creditor's stage payments. Ask Swindon's creditors about that one.

Not many permutations left now. Lose/draw against Slovenia and we're definately out. No more picking a team to not lose the game. Win on Wednesday and we're definately through. Beat Slovenia by more than USA beat Algeria by (if they do) and we go through on top of the group. We've been very, very lucky. And, to put things into perspective (ignoring the past couple of performances), if we'd been offered "beat Slovenia for a place in the last 16 of the World Cup finals" six months ago, we'd have grabbed it. It hasn't been pretty, and it has been very frustrating, but hell Italy won the last World Cup.

Not one England player is playing well. None. Nobody wants to win this game.

No, it's McLarenello

This is bloody painful to watch

Impressive England support in CT. 25,000 at the Waterfront apparently

Good fight back by the Yanks. 2-0 tonight and we go top

That's better

Great decision by the ref. Don't know what for, though

1-1 would be nice

I am offended

Hope that's today's "shock" result out of the way then

The UHY CVA plan shows it being paid back with £3.6m interest. Makes complete sense to me. A company that operates by not paying ANY of the debts that it has to pay to others would obviously pay the ones that it doesn't have to pay.

I assume the Lampard everybody is picking for midfield is Anybodybut Lampard, not his brother Frank

Fiorentina have confirmed they now own him 100%. They swapped 50% of him for 50% of van den Borre with Genoa, apparently. The way is now clear for whatever it is that's going to happen to happen. I would like to see him back. That degree of unpredictability on the bench is definately an asset.

TBF, football's only really been around in South Africa since the early 1990's. It's an overwhelmingly black-supported sport here, and a very, very, very long way behind rugby & cricket to the whites, and was therefore pretty much off the radar until the political changes.

From The Guardian [http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2010/jun/17/portsmouth-creditors-accept-deal] A statement released by the Revenue said: "HMRC notes that the result of today's vote was to accept the CVA proposals. HMRC stands by the full amount of its claim. We will now carefully consider our position following the decision to reduce the amount of our claim for voting purposes. "HMRC believes the so‑called football creditors rule is unfair, unlawful and unacceptable. It cannot be right for millions of pounds worth of assets and income of Portsmouth FC to be earmarked for payment of football debts in full while other creditors – including the public purse – have been offered a mere 20p in the pound over five years." I think the clue is in the words used by HMRC in their statement. If they accepted that the CVA was a done deal, they would have said something like "... will receive a mere 20p ...", not "have been offered". In their view the CVA is still only an offer. They want more, and there's only one way to get it (well 2 actually, but I can't see them helping to get Pompey back to the PL for another 5p).

So, as well as England, France, Italy and Portugal all draw their openers, and Spain lose. It's still wide open.

Answer in 2 parts: 1 It's not a straightforward 20p. It's only 4p now (from player sales, and I don't think they've sold any yet), and the rest in 4p lumps on condition that the Newco makes enough profit. AA has a track record of avoiding/delaying/postponing CVA payments due to creditors (Swindon, for example). Not very attractive, and 2 They would probably accept it "on account", not "in full and final settlement". I have no doubt that AA would hold on to the cheque to try and force HMRC to agree, at which point HMRC will certainly say "OK Mr. Andronikou. Give us 4p and we'll withdraw all the Court cases and go away quietly." Tick ...... Tock

Nah, that's Soo.

Not quite. The administrators have the right to decide what debts they will accept and which they will reject (following certain rules, of course). If any creditor disagrees, that creditor can then take the administrators to Court to have its debt increased. I would imagine that if that happens the CVA vote result would be held in abeyance. So if AA reduces HMRC's debt for nefarious purposes, the ball's in HMRC's court, not AA's.

Where is Sue when you need her?

Balram Chainrai