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Am I the only one that gets slightly aroused by this photo...?

Yeah, the man that got Michael Fialka an interview...

My feeling is that we should avoid risking herpes and swine flu, by selling the Pompey fans 10,000 tickets at a tenner a pop, segregate them outside the ground in a caged area, with a couple large screens, showing the match live and then keep them in, for a couple of hours after the game, hopefully during which time there will be a hailstorm. The club should then provide us with 20-30 wheelbarrows full of stones, which we will hurl at them, as we walk past. I always say that you should always try to repay someone's hospitality...

I'm taking a wild guess that he got his f*** ing money via his father's position as the fanatical leader of a terrorist state. Pretty similar to the position you were in, when Gaydamak Jr. laundered his father's money, made from illegally selling arms. Like I said, flies on a turd...and it sounds like you and your mentally challenged brethren have got used to the smell.

This about sums up the value set, in some f*** !ng football fans, because, I, for one, would not be hoping that the son of a terrorist dictator who killed 270 people in Lockerbie, was taking over my football club. That type of moral compass, is what has saddled you lot, with one piece of sh !t owner after the other. Like flies on a dog turd...

hmbatdajfu=he might be able to do a job for us Now, back to the Times crossword...

An individual's contribution to society and their value therein, can't be measured by a broad generalisation of their current occupation, nor the cost to the public purse of maintaining that group. Using this criteria is often a lazy way of reinforcing personal predujices, thereby providing some self-worth to the person making the generalisation. It is a hard thing in life to celebrate the diversity in our society and the acknowledgement of the value of those other individual's contribution to our own life. Very often, the first step is to accept our own shortcomings, rather than seeking to voice the shortcomings of others. All I do know is that the persuit of education, in all it's forms, is the future of our nation. The persuit of foreign wars, in all their forms, is probably not...

This assumes that their competition will be happy for them to be given an unfair advantage, in not having to pay tax and VAT, like every other club in the division, which enables them to pay the inflated wages they are required to, so that players will turn out for them. If they stay up, there will be a lawsuit, f'sure...

A clue on whether Gaydamak Jr. will insist on getting his loans repaid, from an online news source: Russian-Israeli billionaire Arcadi Gaydamak cannot pay a $3m (£1.86m) bond intended to guarantee his appearance before a Tel Aviv court on charges of money laundering due to "cash flow problems", his lawyers have said. The businessman, who is currently in Russia, is alleged to have helped launder 650 million new shekels (£106m) through a subsidiary of Israel's Bank Hapolaim. He posted a $4m bond prior to his indictment and was due to post an additional $3.5m on November 23. Some $2.1m held in his accounts was to count towards the bond, Israeli newspaper Haaretz reports. On the deadline, Gaydamak successfully appealed for a month's extension to pay the balance. However, in a letter to Tel Aviv District Court, his lawyers said the businessman's foreign currency accounts in Russia have been frozen, leaving him unable to deposit the money on time. "Until now, [Gaydamak] has tried incessantly to raise the bond money in time but in vain," the letter said.

Any money that Pompey receive or are to receive from their "owner" will come, directly or indirectly, from Arkadi Gaydamak, which should be obvious to even the Premier League. If they are happy for Pompey to pay their debts with funds derived from criminal activities, then fair enough. My guess is that enough is enough. They will check the veracity of Pompey's latest story, reject the appeal and re-distribute the money directly to ensure that the £7M isn't grabbed by the Russian crook... Anyone that sells death is hardly likely to give a sh !t about the Premier League. He doesn't give a sh !t about French or Israeli courts, FFS...

Luton were docked a total of 30 points for both administration and financial irregularities, despite the new owners claiming innocence. I am almost certain that when the court cases with Mad'n'rich and Storrie are concluded, following the inevitable administration, that will be the likely path for this once "great" club. I am going for a 29 point deduction, 9 points this season and 20 next season.

I always thought their main hope was the two headed Portsmouth baby. That way they could play two up front, but with only one wage to pay.

You must have thought Marc Jacob was a dead ringer for Frankie Howerd, as well. "Titter thee, not"

There are loads of these on the Internet, it surprised me that it took so long for someone to come out with a Pompey version. Well played Johnny. For anyone that wants a go, you can downlaod this version without subtitles, here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qnnpk...eature=related Then in Windows movie maker, you can add your own. Bingo

You're a genius, Johnny. Fancy Pompey fans thinking they had come up with the idea, when you had thought about it first. I'm in awe, mate...

How ironic that the money used to buy African players for Portsmouth Football Club was made from the proceeds of arms sales to the same continent and in particular, the proceeds of the illegal sale of 170,000 landmines to Angola. This photo shows the football team that Gaydamak bought, in reality: Since this picture, the European Union spent $1.5M on the destruction of Angola's landmine stocks. Shame on the Premier League and shame on Portsmouth...

Yeah, sentenced to six years in jail in absentia by a French court as this article shows and indicted for money laundering by Israel as this article shows. There is evidence that his son was up to his nuts in money laundering, as well, from this article. The fit and proper persons test that is used by the Premier League really is a joke.

I cut and pasted, from an original thread of mine from the 23rd September, 2008. Newcastle were in the Premiership, then...

It has been obvious from day one that the purchase of Portsmouth Football Club has been a money laundering exercise for the Gaydemak family. I think that given that the crime that Gaydamak Sr. has been found guilty of, was committed in France, an organisation such as Interpol would need to get involved. What I find incredible is that Southampton fans have, for years, bemoaned the ethics of the reverse takeover of a rest home company, to obtain a public listing and yet Pompey fans have not been able to raise a whimper about the source of their recent "wealth", until their league status is threatened....

Portsmouth have always had worse support (apart from the early post war years when Portsmouth was full of sailors) than Southampton. The following comparative figures when Fratton had a larger capacity than St. Marys and we were both in similar leagues prove that: Portsmouth Year League Attendance 1993 2 13.695 1992 2 11.745 1991 2 9.690 1990 2 8.861 Southampton Year League Attendance 2009 2 17.849 2008 2 21.254 2007 2 23.556 2006 2 23.614

....we are in a better position than many think, to survive. (Part 2) The pain we have gone through will be ten times worse for the "bigger" clubs over the coming months. It will happen soon and the pigs who have been at the Sky Sports trough will find that it will soon be empty. The balance sheets of these mercenary armies(or their banks) will soon be found to be nothing more than a mirage of creative accounting, that the Premier League have ignored for too long. Ashley has lost over £300M on HBOS shares, allegedly. A firesale of Newcastle is on the cards and relegation is not out of the question. If we found it hard, how will they cope? Even Man U, Liverpool and Arsenal are not immune to the firestorm engulfing the world's economy. Massive debts built on the assumption that there is an inifinite apetite for overpaid foreigners kicking a ball around at a strange time on the weekend (ie not 3:00pm on a Saturday) are going to be unsustainable and with many of the property assets (£10M for Fratton Park, anyone???) underpinning the balance sheets, a slight nudge that propelled some of the biggest financial institutions into oblivion, will be all it takes. Live with the pain at Southampton Football Club, turn up to as many of the games as possible, because soon, our model of sustainable football covered by income from the pockets of the real fans will be the daily diet of many of the clubs in the Premiership. As they sink, we will rise again, on the back of a vision of the economic reality that so many people are having to face in the financial community, but few inside football can see. Just be glad we are facing up to it now. Those in denial, not a few miles down the M27 will soon be jolted into a world of pain, along with a few others and their journey will go downhill far more rapidly than ours..... More rapidly than, Brighton and Hove Albion, IMHO. For those that are interested, here's a potted history of the Goldstone Ground, presumably the business model for Pompey's owner, Al Mirage, and so far away from ours, it's laughable: The Goldstone Ground (or The Goldstone) was a football stadium and home ground of Brighton & Hove Albion F.C. between 1902 and 1997. The club currently plays at Withdean Stadium, a temporary stadium in the Brighton suburb of Withdean while a new stadium is built at Falmer on the outskirts of the city. After the sale of the ground to private developers, the area was changed to a row of warehouse style retail shops, along with a "drive-thru" Burger King outlet. The Goldstone Ground stood on Old Shoreham Road, Hove opposite Hove Park in a partly residential area. The area was previously part of Goldstone Farm and was first used for a football match by Hove F.C. on 7 September 1901. The Albion played there for the first time on 22 February 1902, and it became the club's permanent home the next season. The main West Stand was largely built in 1958 and consisted of seating and terraces. The South Stand was originally built in 1949 and served family spectators. The North Stand was built in 1984 and consisted solely of terraces. The East Stand was formed of uncovered terraces. Floodlights were first installed in 1961.[2] The ground also hosted football games for the 1948 Olympic Games, one of only two grounds outside London (the other being Fratton Park). The last game at The Goldstone was held on 26 April 1997, in which Brighton beat Doncaster Rovers 1-0. Between 1902 and 1997 the ground had admitted 22.9 million supporters to 2,174 games.[3] The largest attendance at the Goldstone was 36,747 when the Albion played Fulham F.C. on 27 December 1958.[4] The ground was sold by the board (who were trying to clear the club's mounting debts in an attempt to avoid bankruptcy) without consulting the fans, although no alternative football ground had been lined up. The then chairman, Bill Archer, aimed to profit from the sale of the lucrative development land on which the Goldstone stood. A ground share with Portsmouth never materialised and the club eventually arranged a ground-share with Gillingham at their Priestfield Stadium over 70 miles from Brighton. The Goldstone Ground was sold to property developers and it has since been redeveloped as a retail park which features several outlets including a new Toys 'R' Us store and a Burger King drive-thru.

...than any other season I can remember. Does anyone else feel the same? As you may have guessed, I always like to dredge up old posts. This one really stands the test of time and demonstrates why our club will never die. To be more precise: Call it a therapy thread, if you like. Therapy for the only assets that the administrator can't sell, yet are the club's greatest treasure, the fanbase. I would like to start by hoping that from this day on, the fans can continue to show the rest of the country how we respond to adversity. I am sure that when we stand inside our magnificant stadium, in the warm Spring Southampton sunshine, at the end of the next game, knowing that we are down, "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life" will echo round the ground and we will know that starting next season, we can only expect better things. So, my first positive thought is how much of a cult team we will become, stripped of our Championship arrogance and money. A sort of hard southern enclave of the underdog, swaying the neutral and earning respect. Working class, now Lowe has gone and southern to the core, now Wilde has gone. Respect is returning, in spades....

Totally confused and misleading. Manchester United play their home games outside the City of Manchester in the Metropolitan Borough of Trafford, which is in the Metropolitan County of Manchester, as are Bolton, Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, Stockport and Wigan. By your logic, they also represent Manchester...

Manchester and Liverpool are 34 miles apart. Southampton and Portsmouth are 16 miles apart. But forgetting that, Manchester don't play their home games in the City of Manchester, but in Trafford, which is in Greater Manchester. Bolton, Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, Stockport and Wigan also play their home games in Greater Manchester, although what that means, I don't know, apart from where you play your home games doesn't define a club. Its fans and its history that does that.