Football Focus

[Atila Reincarnate]

Spuds 2 nil and coasting, and then erm..........................you fcuked it up, so, clears throat

HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA AND Defoe missing a pen..............

HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA ETC...............

[Atila Reincarnate]

Bluerevolution Wrote:

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> They are, agreed but they don't play in Manchester

Don't start that with Sandperson, he'll get annoyed.

[Sandperson]

I don't really mind where they play to be honest. There are two teams in the Premiership with Manchester in their names and one is consistently better than the other. ;-)

[Jah Lush]

Two-nil and we fukced it it up, two nil and we fukced it up. (6)

[ratty]

Judas Out!

[SimonM]

And two football teams play in Sheffield: one of them is Rotherham United and the other is my lot! :)

[ratty]

Have just heard a rumour coming from Fratton Park that PFC will go into administration this week. Not sure how reliable as all my contacts at the club now play for Spurs, however, would not surprise me at all.

They'll be the first Prem club to go under and will make things easier for other relegation threatened clubs by losing ten points. Not convinced however that they could contuniue trading this season.

[SCSB79]

Michael Stewart of Hearts making a complete tit of himself!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EVLpoDSYX4

[Atila Reincarnate]

ratty Wrote:

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> Have just heard a rumour coming from Fratton Park

> that PFC will go into administration this week.

> Not sure how reliable as all my contacts at the

> club now play for Spurs, however, would not

> surprise me at all.

>

> They'll be the first Prem club to go under and

> will make things easier for other relegation

> threatened clubs by losing ten points. Not

> convinced however that they could contuniue

> trading this season.

You may end up being the first, we'll have to wait and see. But I'm sure if it did happen Pompey won't be the last, I'm convinced another "Leeds" is just waiting to happen.

[????]

Look no further than E13

[ratty]

Indeed. West Ham in big trouble if Gold and Sullivan do not come in (I am told that they are waiting on the outcome of this season and that may be too late).

Sad state of affairs!

[Atila Reincarnate]

Sad state of affairs indeed but unfortunately football clubs have been badly run for many years, how many more haven't gone to the wall is a miracle.

[mockney piers]

Weird thing is a decade ago we were one of the best run clubs financially there was.

A succession of ground expansions, ill timed relegations and terrible chairmen/directors/financiers and credit crunch* have put paid to all of that.

We may not have quite done a Leeds (especially as we haven't even got a moment of near glory to remeber unless being cheated out of an FA cup counts) bit we're not a million miles off. :(

I suppose I should mention the woeful financial dealings of redknapp, Portsmouth and west ham? No coincidence there!!

[kpc]

And add Hull and Bolton (long time living beyond their means) to the list.

[Atila Reincarnate]

Let's hope redknapp does the same at spuds!!

[ratty]

Sadly they are just too wealthy - which is exactly why he is there.

The jury is out on whether Redknapp is entirely to blame. For him to sign the players on the ludicrous deals that he does, then some other idiot must be signing the cheques to pay them.

Our problem (PFC) was that our idiot owner (or his father) were flooding their (allegedly) dirty money through the club, then, when recession bites, it all stops. Not a very sustainable business plan. Compound this with the fact that the original Arab that bought us, Sulamain Al Fahim, was only trying to do so with Shinawatra's cash and you get disaster.

Hope it does not happen to the Hammers too!

[ratty]

Administration staved off for now at Fratton Park. Thank fook for that, now I can have delusions that we may have a semblance of a chance of staying up! :0)

[matthew123]

Didnt Redknapp leave West Ham in a similar financial mess?

[mockney piers]

You can't actually blame harry for our woes, but analysis of his reputation for canny wheeler dealing doesn't bear scrutiny and he did more harm than good overall.

Wouldn't have changed his time there for anything. Some great players and lots of ups and downs.

[????]

Nope, that's the fault of the Icelanders but he left in strange circumstances (*cough* Bung) having spunked away the then Massive ?20 million we got for Rio on a series of players who looked well past it (thanks for Titi Camara BTW) and some of whom had connections with agents who were close to him...er his other son (not Jamie) being a classic example. West Ham fans have mixed opinions on him but a significant minority think he is a thief and were not shocked by early morning police visits or the fact that he was a multi-millionairre way back when salaries were nothing like they are now...

[red devil]

...costa del sandbanks is full of crims (allegedly)

[red devil]

Utd's defence for tonight's match...Park (RB), Fletcher & Carrick (CH), Evra (LB)...should be interesting especially with Wolf's 6'4'' striker..thank fook we've already qualified!

[jimmy two times]

Fletcher and Carrick are both 6ft plus.

[red devil]

The best form of defence is attack...3-2 to Utd :-$

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