I don't know why you think the Ben Arfa rumour is so silly. I've been following the story closely and from what I can gather, he does prefer to come to us. We've definitely made at least one bid for him so it's not out of the question for us to sign him.

There was some, like yourself I think, that where a bit dubious. Then again, after the way things had been going over the summer it was easy to see why a lot of people got caught up in the hype of Cole.



I haven't seen your opinion on the Young/Konchesky rumours but surely you couldn't have been happy with them, I notice a big divided reaction to the likes of the being mentioned. Insua looks like he'll be staying now too? There was a lot of emails to SSN as the news broke going quite OTT on Cole though, although most of them where from the footballing unknown.



Good comparison, although Fellaini's reaction was mainly 'cos no one had a clue who he was, really unoticed in the games he played over here in the European qualifiers and he took a while to settle. The reaction he got on his return from injury last night however was a huge. Great to have him back and fit for the start of the season.

The co-efficient only comes into play when a draw for a certain round is being seeded, they only got into the comp from a 7th place league finish so have to start in the round that equates to.

Young and Konchesky are poor players IMO, wouldn't want them near the club.

Insua's decent, potentially a solid player once he gains experience and uses it well, he has ability, but lacks real speed, which allows his inexperience to be easily exposed. I want him to stay, as I feel he's solid, but, with Aurelio coming back, I'm unsure if we'll go for another left back, I think we need one due to Fabio's erratic fitness, but funds should determine that. If we do go for a full back, I'd rather we went for somebody with something going for them, Young and Konchesky have little going for them.


Cole had a good game tonight, the team were nobodies and played like nobodies, but it was a decent performance, but still short of fitness IMO.

How many where on at Anfield tonight? Turned over after the rugby and thought I'd caught the mute button.

Dunno, not many, to be expected, really. Nothing match against a nothing team, with probable high ticket prices for what it was.

356 ?

That's what I expected. Speaking to a mate of mine last week, season ticket holder too who was trying to say he would be happy with signing Young. I wasn't buying and I know if I would have asked him at the end of last season would he have wanted him he would have told me where to go. Interesting how opinions change when you're club is linked to players.



I don't really see why you would want either player, neither one are of a good standard. Young gets nowhere near the Villa side and Konchesky is an average player playing in an average team. I can't say I've seen a lot of Insua to pass opinion but there is potential for improvement, Konchesky/Young will not improve.



Only caught last twenty mins after I played 5-a-side but Matt Smith an co certainly pushed his case. A quality player imo, despite what the sceptics say I think, or fear , he will offer a lot this season.

F*ck off Sam Allardyce, you cheeky c*nt. The country's up the spout and you want tax breaks for the rich.

My heart bleeds for people who earn more in a week than most people earn in 2-3 years having to pay tax

31202 at Liverpool last night. Tickets were £20-22 I think.

Because it makes huge sense.

1, HMRC will eventually get their money, they nearly always do.
2, The clubs need to be able to carry on trading as usual as much as possible if they are to be able to pay HMRC as quickly as possible. They won't be able to do this if they can't pay off their other creditors first, as nobody would be willing to deal with them.
3, HMRC will not go bust, unlike some of the other creditors potentially when they don't get paid.
4, If other said creditors did go bust, that just means less businesses paying taxes to HMRC, which is not beneficial to HMRC either.

Europa league qualifiers
Liverpool v Trabzonspor
Aston Villa v Rapid Vienna
Man City v Timişoara

Dundee Utd v AEK Athens
Celtic v Utrecht
Odense v Motherwell

and the big boys

The New Saints v CSKA Sofia

and in the qualifiers for the competition no-one cares about

BSC Young Boys v Tottenham Hotspur FC

You don't get how this works, do you?

In no other line of business when you enter administration are you allowed to pay 100% of your liabilities to some creditors based on what industry they are in but 10% to others. Why should football be any different?

As a non-preferential creditor HMRC won't "eventually get its money". The administrator will make whatever distribution it can as agreed at the creditors meeting, then that's it. You can whistle for the rest of what you're owed as the company disappears and any subsequent "Portsmouth FC Limited 2010" that takes over running the club does so without any of the historic debt of the old business.

If HMRC are owed £10m, but only get paid £1m as a non-preferential creditor that's £9m gone missing out of the exchequer. The likelihood is that instead of going into the public purse where it was supposed to go that money will instead be sat in the Swiss bank account of some very rich footballers and their agents.

Tell me again why that's ok?

As accurate as ever