He's still there - although not sure for how much longer.
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Shocking unpredictable news - Pompey in administration again
- Thread starter shaolinpunk
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He's still there - although not sure for how much longer.
No games at all, it isnt daylight all the time yetOnly 12PM kick-offs would work...if its sunny.
There would be NO games END OFF.
chucky1973
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i feel for the pompey fans here, they just keep getting shafted by shit owners that dont give a hoot about the club, one thing you can say about Pompey fans is they support there team through thick and thin, just last saturday they took a hell of a lot to Balckpool, knowing this was happening this week.
Gates down to 12k (home fans) this season. Not many making a stand to the problems.
I'd say they are not all that.
After their visit to the Amex lets see if you still think their fans are great.
sir albion
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How anybody can feel sorry for pompey is beyond belief,they somehow seem to be getting away with things lightly and its a shambles,time they folded as they just don't learn.
How on earth are they paying for the policing?no police no matches surely.
How on earth are they paying for the policing?no police no matches surely.
chucky1973
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I didnt say great!! I just think when this happens its the fans that suffer time and time again, they could have got 20k to each game and that money would have just been eaten up by the owners, they would still not have paid the tax bill or players
- Jul 7, 2003
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Half of whom would have been day trippers going just in case it turned out to be their last game, so they could say "I was there".
Why do you feel sorry for their fans, out of interest? The absolute WORST that has happened to them throughout this whole shameful episode is that they support a team that's currently in the bottom half of the Championship. BIG DEAL. Is that so bad? They might get relegated...again, so what, so might Coventry, Doncaster, Forest, Chesterfield, Wycombe Wanderers, Dagenham & Redbridge etc etc, and I don't see anyone blubbering about their respective plights.
What would Rochdale, or Accrington, or Yeovil fans, for example, give to be in Pompey's "terrible" position? In the Championship, having been to the FA Cup final twice in the last five years or so? They'd happily swap, I'd wager, as would bigger clubs like Sheffield Wednesday. Pompey won't go bust, we all know football clubs rarely do, so let's stop pretending Pompey's fans are actually suffering in any real sense, and let their club get on with sorting out the mess they, and they alone created through greed and, in all honesty, cheating.
chucky1973
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ive been well and truly told there!
- Jul 7, 2003
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Haha, didn't mean to be in your face, I just think there's a bit of a myth that their fans have actually suffered in any true sense as a result of all this
readingstockport
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If they hadn't been so f***ing arrogant when they cheated their way to the greedy league and the cup by not paying their taxes then I would agree. As it is, pompey fans are one of the VERY few sets of fans I will have any sympathy for as and when they finally lose their club.
deletebeepbeepbeep
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- May 12, 2009
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As this point they should just be sacked off the to Hampshire leagues.
I might get this wrong, but the jist is 100% right.
The owner 3 back owned all things Pompey.
When he went tits up he was bailed to the tune of £17m, against Fratton Park.
£17m man now owns FPark, but has no interest in 'the club'.
3 back still owns the surrounding land.
Most recent man only owned the name, and day to day debt, but no assets against that.
To buy the whole club, all 3 'owners' would have to be bought out.
As the first 2 are sitting on a sizeable chunk of Portsmouth real estate, that seems unlikely.
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Actually I did think this administration wouldn't be approved and the winding-up petition would be heard on Monday, so from that perspective, I am a little surprised. Not shocked though!
chucky1973
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But that was the club not the fans, as fans would be the same arrogant nature if we had one the FA Cup?
chucky1973
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Haha, didn't mean to be in your face, I just think there's a bit of a myth that their fans have actually suffered in any true sense as a result of all this
thats cool Im joking, you made some really good points that perhaps I didnt think about fully.
Vankleek Hill Seagull
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And it looks like Andronikou is out. According to Robyn at TalkSport, some guy called Trevor Birch has been appointed the Administrator.
I wonder if that'll make any difference?
I wonder if that'll make any difference?
HawkTheSeagull
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Heard on the Radio 1 news earlier that fans are already looking into starting a new club in the lower leagues so they obviously think its the end of the current Portsmouth FC.
Spiros
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Where were the protests from these 'fans' when Pompey refused to sell several millions of pounds worth of players during the transfer window? Money which could have been used to pay of some of the debts to HMRC and others. If there were any I didn't see them.
He's the taxman's preferred choice of administrator according to ssn.
Thinking about it, the only connection to The Goldstone, would be that the land's value far out weighs the clubs debts.
The difference being, it's legally owned by these individuals for them to do as they please.