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http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/sport/pompey/brown-pressure-getting-to-pompey-players-1-6538024

 

Brown is convinced Pompey’s so-far disappointing campaign is down to a failure to cope with the club’s history.

 

The Shrimpers’ manager said: ‘Every time we’ve played Portsmouth we seem to put our best foot forward and that seems to be their biggest problem – every time a club plays them they know they’re playing a giant.

 

‘Their level of support is massive and they won the FA Cup not so long ago, that kind of history doesn’t go away.

 

‘I think it’s the pressure of playing for Portsmouth that seems to be the problem for them.

 

‘They’ve not really grabbed hold of League Two this season which has surprised because I really thought they would.

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I heard some news today from a Pompey supporter work colleague, who was at the Newport game having a meal before kickoff,

anyway he said that Sat on the table with him were two people who (which I can't remember if they were ex or currently involved with the club) talked about money missing from the club. Now if true may explain why the annual accounts have been delayed. Take it with a pinch of salt,

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The Deloitte rich list has us as the 25th richest football club in the universe. How I do wish we weren't, and that our players were paid in pizza for fixing up the changing rooms. When my son was watching us beat Man U the other day, the first thing he said was, "why can't we be more like Pompey daddy, and lose to Newport?"

 

So we are 25th in the world. Do we know whee the Skates lie in that table?

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Just to put the massive crowds into perspective, take out the cheap season tickets and Cambridge will earn more from one game than pompey's matchday income for a year.

It makes you wonder how the whole cashflow thing is going....

 

Cambridge's plucky cup run is a joy to behold, happily the most local club have embarked on a rich Cup run of their own which will fill their war chest ready for a renewed assault on the upper reaches of their League... Oh.

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Anyone heard what Awful's excuse was this time? Dog ate his homework? Ref overawed by the most local crowd?

 

No it was the fact that there are "very fine lines in football". He must have said it about 200 times.

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Wow, just when you think that "journalism" can't get any worse, our dear friend and exemplary wordsmith Jordan Cross turns in an eight "pompey paragraph" Match Report.

 

Complete with an ample array of sentence-splicing sleight-of-hand, to somehow manage to pad it out that far.

 

Even this p!ss-take post offers more satiety in a head-to-head word-count.

 

Some wonderful highlights include the evocative tag-lines: "bleak afternoon at Fratton Park" and "a black day for Pompey".

 

 

Jordan Cross -- proving that the new true quality journalism is not simply a matter of producing detailed and engaging copy -- but rather an evolving art-form of linguistic Haute cuisine.

 

Clearly it's another of those epic p*mpey Quality over Quantity type things.

 

 

Just without the 'quality'.

 

 

"Less-is-more" is the new en-vogue, cutting edge journalistic style - and The Snooze are the pioneering, trend-setting market leaders -- blazing a trail at the fore-front this new syntactical revolution, of saying absolutely f*ck-all and getting (presumably) well paid for it. :mcinnes:

 

 

It's either that -- or -- "p!ss-poor p*mpey" are just so sh!te that even their local rag can't be f*cked to write about them anymore. :p

 

 

If things continue as "bleakly" as they are - (and this is p*mpy - so they probably will!) -- I can foresee even shorter Match Reports in the coming weeks:

 

 

POMPEY LOSE AGAIN:

P!ss-poor p*mpey's winless streak continued this afternoon with another dismal Home defeat.

 

The pluckiest were on the end of another bleak two-goal reverse.

 

They added another Red-Card to their growing collection in the second half.

 

There were the inevitable boos from the bestest as they trudged off home to give their sisters a hand getting undressed.

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Wow, just when you think that "journalism" can't get any worse, our dear friend and exemplary wordsmith Jordan Cross turns in an eight "pompey paragraph" Match Report.

 

Complete with an ample array of sentence-splicing sleight-of-hand, to somehow manage to pad it out that far.

 

Even this p!ss-take post offers more satiety in a head-to-head word-count.

 

Some wonderful highlights include the evocative tag-lines: "bleak afternoon at Fratton Park" and "a black day for Pompey".

 

 

Jordan Cross -- proving that the new true quality journalism is not simply a matter of producing detailed and engaging copy -- but rather an evolving art-form of linguistic Haute cuisine.

 

Clearly it's another of those epic p*mpey Quality over Quantity type things.

 

 

Just without the 'quality'.

 

 

"Less-is-more" is the new en-vogue, cutting edge journalistic style - and The Snooze are the pioneering, trend-setting market leaders -- blazing a trail at the fore-front this new syntactical revolution, of saying absolutely f*ck-all and getting (presumably) well paid for it. :mcinnes:

 

 

It's either that -- or -- "p!ss-poor p*mpey" are just so sh!te that even their local rag can't be f*cked to write about them anymore. :p

 

 

If things continue as "bleakly" as they are - (and this is p*mpy - so they probably will!) -- I can foresee even shorter Match Reports in the coming weeks:

 

:lol:

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lots of their fans want Awful out it seems, perhaps as they "own" the club they can kick him out no?

 

Oh what's that, they don't really own the club and have no say over any decisions!? But what about their 'shares'? Surely they weren't duped into putting £1000 in to someone else's pocket so that they could buy the club, Who'd have thought it haha!

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Something constructive for the few to ponder - a quick business analysis of the problems encountered since the Trust launched this great new company...

 

The board appointed a poor manager.

The poor manager performed poorly, the board blamed him and sacked him.

That mistake cost money.

They appointed another poor manager, this time after he has already failed at his previous club.

That appointment of a poor manager upset their only quality player, he stopped playing.

That mistake cost money.

The new poor manager performed poorly and eventually needed replacing.

That mistake cost money.

The board appointed yet another poor manager, he performed poorly, so they learned from previous errors...and sacked his assistant.

That mistake cost money.

That gave the current poor manager free rein to perform even more poorly - and results got even worse.

 

Likely outcome - the board will appoint yet another poor manager shortly.

The mistake will cost money.

 

The common factor in every poor decision?

The board.

 

Things we have learned?

1. If you appoint someone who isn't very good don't be surprised if they aren't very good, their appointment is your fault not theirs.

2. When we said on day one that there didn't seem to be much quality in that boardroom we weren't just jealous bitter scummahs.

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Something constructive for the few to ponder - a quick business analysis of the problems encountered since the Trust launched this great new company...

 

The board appointed a poor manager.

The poor manager performed poorly, the board blamed him and sacked him.

That mistake cost money.

They appointed another poor manager, this time after he has already failed at his previous club.

That appointment of a poor manager upset their only quality player, he stopped playing.

That mistake cost money.

The new poor manager performed poorly and eventually needed replacing.

That mistake cost money.

The board appointed yet another poor manager, he performed poorly, so they learned from previous errors...and sacked his assistant.

That mistake cost money.

That gave the current poor manager free rein to perform even more poorly - and results got even worse.

 

Likely outcome - the board will appoint yet another poor manager shortly.

The mistake will cost money.

 

The common factor in every poor decision?

The board.

 

Things we have learned?

1. If you appoint someone who isn't very good don't be surprised if they aren't very good, their appointment is your fault not theirs.

2. When we said on day one that there didn't seem to be much quality in that boardroom we weren't just jealous bitter scummahs.

 

You are wrong. Everything is going swimmingly. Nothing to see here.

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I gave this chap thumbs up (strangely, the phew didn't). Possibly a nutjob in disguise of course, but it cheered up my day.

 

OVERTHEILL

Think I'd willingly swap them our trophy's for their stadium,training ground and league position

 

OVERTHEILL

More replacement managers being named,time for a reality check. What professional successful manager in his right mind would come to this tuppence hapeny micky mouse outfit. Best thing we can do is drop out of the league unload our clapped out stadium to the developers for some serious cash and start again at the new training ground. Who knows one day we may be as good as Cambridge

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