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Absolutely agree with hypo. Put the away fans in blocks 36-39. Make the boundary between 39 and 40 perminent (i.e. easier to police). Whenever the away fan area needs to be adjusted to accomodate more, expand it into blocks 35 and 34. Change the walling beneath 34-36 to allow different sections to be used in different ways. This would keep the Northam as a 'kop'; keeps the away fans in a corner; keeps the away fans away from the corporates (and sky lenses). All they then need to work out is how to safely get the away fans into/out of the corner.... (extra footbridge?)

Damn http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/p/portsmouth/8481245.stm (First link not from a Skatesville source)

BBC still hasn't put it up on their website http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/p/portsmouth/default.stm ... but they have removed it from their sports page ticker...

Many media sources have taken Pompey's word at face value and issued stories (ESPN, Sky, Daily Mail). The BBC are still holding, wonder if they have doubts...

Hoping that the PL are just protecting themselves, and in so doing letting Pompey have a little more string to hang themselves with...

Ticker now changed to: "Portsmouth tell BBC Solent their transfer embargo is lifted; Premier League is yet to comment" Can we interpret that as the BBC have contacted the Premier League, but have been told to wait for a statement? (of course it could just be a web editor nit picking...)

On BBC ticker: "Portsmouth tell BBC Solent their transfer embargo is lifted; Premier League is yet to confirm" http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport

http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/frattonlatest/Pompey-transfer-embargo-lifted.6014240.jp

1) The game is at St Mary's PES, not Fratton 2) Even if it was being played at Krap Nottarf, the stadium (sic) can't even hold that many fans 3) Even if Krap Nottarf could hold 30,000, where would the blue few find that many fans from?

No such luck, unless they get that transfer embargo lifted they can't even play members of the public. Shame, as their youth team sound quite talented, and no doubt will be playing to impress...

http://www.thisishampshire.net/news/4872206.Man_jailed_for_stabbing_brother_in_family_row/

http://www.portsmouth.vitalfootball.co.uk/article.asp?a=185997 So not Gadaffi then? Shame, that would have been hilarious. Who would be better? Wonder if Mugabe has a yacht?

I for one shan't buy another Echo until they issue a public apology. If they are attempting to undermine the club, they are essentially little better than Skates.

http://www.saintsfc.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10280~1944245,00.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/blog/2010/jan/25/jose-morinho-home-match-record "In the ongoing brouhaha at Portsmouth much has been made of John Utaka earning £80,000 a week. Utaka has not been a success at Fratton Park (two and a half years have brought six league goals) and would surely have moved on but for the vast pay cut this would involve. This week at a press conference Harry Redknapp, who signed Utaka for Portsmouth, claimed he never got involved in players' wages and couldn't even tell you what his Spurs players were earning. There are no doubt plenty of self-motivated club owners around. But when will a manager – even a popular manager with plenty of friends in the media – be called to account? Redknapp has managed West Ham, Southampton and Portsmouth in the last seven years: all three have suffered some form of financial meltdown since. He says he has no interest in what players are earning. Maybe he should."

Not really, but this post's title annoyed a few of them: http://www.portsmouth.vitalfootball.co.uk/article.asp?a=185887 "I saw the headline on news now an was ecstatic thinking 'at last, some good news!'. Alas it's only the poll results :-("

Only from the media... so take it all with a massive pinch of salt, but over the past couple of weeks all of the following have been mentioned: James: Stoke (loan); Spurs (Loan/Free?) Kaboul: Spurs; Man City; Sunderland; Lille; Lens Nugent: Burnley (loan) Belhadj: Sporting Lisbon; Wigan; Birmingham; Benfica; Blackburn Williamson: Newcastle; Watford Mullins: Stoke; Burnley; Middlesbrough Diop; Blackburn Piquionne (on loan): West Ham; Everton; Liverpool; Villa Utaka: Celtic; Sochaux Ashdown: QPR Boateng: Sunderland Dindane (on loan): Birmingham; Celtic Ben Haim: Bolton Begović: Spurs Yebda (on loan): PSG; Inter; AC Milan; Juventus

If you ignore the Charity Shield, then Luton come close: FA Cup 1958/59 League Cup 1987/88 & 1988/89 Full Members Cup (Zenith Data Systems) 1987/88 League Trophy (Johnstones Paint) 2008/09 Edit: No other team has played in the finals of both the Full Members and League Trophy. So yes, if we beat Franchise FC, and if you include the Charity Shield, the Saints will indeed be the only team to have appeared in all five finals...

That even trumps Quick quid's 2356% APR! I don't get how it can be legal. At Wonga's rate, borrowing a single pound for a single day will mean the following day you owe them £7.30 in interest.... After a week your £1 loan would have accumulated £51 interest if you borrowed a realistic sum of cash, say £150, just for a week to tide you over until payday, you'd owe Wonga £7,735 in interest alone by the end of the week. How can that be legal?

Remove the students and in 15 years time the UK economy would take a massive hit. No doubt military cuts would result. As such, student of today keep soldiers of tomorrow in work. So next time you're supping down on a pint remember that by buying that beer, you've willing chosen to give more than a penny to support universities. The more you drink, the more you support students.

Well, no, you're not quite right. I assume that the figure of £12 billion you say is spent on ‘Universities’ has been reached by adding the budgets allocated to the ‘Higher Education funding council for England’ (£7b), ‘Student Loans’ (£4.7b) and ‘Student Grant’ (£1b)Source. I also assume you are not including any of the rest of the budget allocated to the ‘Department for Innovation, Universities & Skills’. So for sake of argument let’s call government funding of ‘universities’ £12.7 billion (2.16% of government spending; or 0.77% GDP). There are actually 31.7 million taxpayers. So were they to evenly provide the government with its entire income, your calculation would be almost spot on (£400.63 per taxpayer). Unfortunately, your calculation falls down when it assumes that all tax is paid by taxpayers. Business rates and Corporation tax account for c. 13% of government income. Income tax and national insurance combined only account for c. 48% of government income. So your average taxpayer only contributes £192.30 directly to universities. Who pays the remaining 39% of government income is determined by your lifestyle: landfill tax, petroleum tax, air passenger duty, tobacco, alcohol, insurance premium tax, capital gains, stamp duty, and of course VAT. If we distribute these costs across the entire population (except the under 16s) we would find that each adult would pay approximately £100.84 pa towards universities. So a fairer estimate would be that you are likely to personally contribute £293.14 each year towards universities (if you have an average income and average lifestyle of course). Of course that leads to the real nub of your argument, are universities worth funding. The answer is an emphatic, definitely. We have little primary or secondary industry to fall back on, and are heavily reliant on banking, oil, pharmaceuticals, arms, and IT. If the country is to have a successful economic future, it is going to rely upon having an edge in invention and innovation. Without our universities, our future would look very bleak. If you want to learn more Stu, try: The impact of universites on the UK economy

No. Staffordshire University were ridiculed 10 years ago for having a module within a Media studies degree on football culture.

Whoops, my bad..

Wind up is definately the better of the two. 'Pay up', was first sung by Arsenal fans, sounds far too much like 'Play up', and doesn't have a the same double meaning that 'Wind up' does. Also, in three weeks time it'd be great to be able to sing 'Wound up'

Spot on Colin...