Falkor
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- Jun 3, 2011
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Yeah as that was the fans fault :/ they cant help who the owners are, thats down the the administrators and previous owners, and the FA selling them to crooks.
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Pompey issued winding up petition
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Yeah as that was the fans fault :/ they cant help who the owners are, thats down the the administrators and previous owners, and the FA selling them to crooks.
The fans will still have a club to support because a new one will start. If the current club survives this will just keep on happening. Look at Palace - been wound up more times than a cuckoo clock and a year after their last escape they're still in the second tier and a game away from Wembley!
the wanderbus
Well-known member
You'll probably find that the F A didnt actually sell them to anybody ,that was at various time the owners or administrators. As for there fans they deserve f*** all, even palace put up some resistance when they were in shit.
I didn't hear them complaining.
Tony Meolas Loan Spell
Slut Faced Whores
Exactly what I said earlier. The fact that it probably wont be in the league and will have to go the AFC Wimbledon or Aldershot route is tough shit.
Time for Pompey to live within their means.
Seagull Steve
SWC
It is a hard one for me, because I feel sorry for their fans, but not for the club itself. Although I hate to see clubs going under, I do agree that for anyone to sit up and take notice, a big club is going to have to go. Pompey have so much bad financial history, it might not be a bad thing. No money, average players and a very shabby ground that needs rebuilding. But as I said it's a hard one for me.
Pot noodles for everyone
New member
I suggest you read up on your own club's history before making stupid statements like that one.
bhaexpress
New member
Quite so but to be fair to the FA (something I rarely say) they may well have been a bit flexible because who would have wanted to buy Portsmouth ? The FA want as little disruption to the league as possible so I can understand their actions.
You haven't been a Brighton fan very long have you?
severnside gull
Well-known member
The biggest fear for me is not that Portsmouth go to the wall because they should be driven there IMO. The fans will, as others have said, still have a club to follow because at best they will escape with a drop to League 1 and at worst, if it comes to it, they will reform under another name in a lower league.
But one look at Fratton Park and it's clear that no matter what happens they can't continue there for very much longer........ forget the £32m needed to meet current committments and debts, they need that and more on top to refit the ground. So whatever happens it seems they will need to go somewhere else to play their home games and having been there I feel sorry for their fans
But one look at Fratton Park and it's clear that no matter what happens they can't continue there for very much longer........ forget the £32m needed to meet current committments and debts, they need that and more on top to refit the ground. So whatever happens it seems they will need to go somewhere else to play their home games and having been there I feel sorry for their fans
seagullsovergrimsby
#cpfctinpotclub
Chainrai must be shitting himself at the moment , if there is no buyer for CSI next week he will have to fork out £1.6M to pay off the current debt to HMRC or face up to the fact the club gets wound up and the millions of £££''s he is owed vanishes into the ether.
Papa Lazarou
Living in a De Zerbi wonderland
One consistent factor in all of this has been the administrator. Was value has he added in that time?
seagullsovergrimsby
#cpfctinpotclub
The only value added by the administrator is to his employer's bank balance. There is always money to be made out of somebody else's misfortune.
Papa Lazarou
Living in a De Zerbi wonderland
wasn't he previously involved in another football club administration?
Super Steve Earle
Well-known member
It's not the fault of the fans. They have no control over how the club behaves, and being realistic they probably see the alternative to a bad owner as being even worse. I know a couple of Pompey fans and like most of us, they support and love their club but have little influence on how it's run. However the club needs to be shunted down the League or even out to the Conference to force the owners/administrators to run their business properly. It's not that long ago that Luton had a spin in the top division, but now they are in the Conference living on much lower Income & Expenditure and that's what should happen to clubs like Pompey. The fans will stand by them as I would the Albion.
Fur Cough
New member
Read build a bonfire young man.
You certainly can help who owns your club if the desire is there to do it.
I don't think we were reluctant to sell Beeney to Leeds. The speed and alacrity that Bazza went and cashed the cheque seemed to suggest that a lifeline had just been grabbed.......... and so it had. Only for us to jump into an even hotter frying pan
That's not his role. His role is to flog the horse before it dies
severnside gull
Well-known member
You have to question, at best the competence of the administrator, and at worst his integrity. He seems to have been questionably close to some of the former senior personnel at Portsmouth FC