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This is why the Portsmouth fans deserve no sympathy whatsoever. When the media started pointing these things out, we were accused of having an anti-Portsmouth agenda because they weren't a big London club. NOT ONE FAN ever questioned Gaydamak. To join some dots - what was Arkady Gaydamak...

I thought it was just me - hilariously deluded, aren't they? I liked the one who was pleased they'd gone into administration because their bank accounts would be unfrozen and they could sign more players ... they just don't get it.

Marcotti's idea of a joke ... I held my nose and did it for the money. Which makes the thought that they might cease to exist all the sweeter. Although I fear they'll wriggle off the hook again somehow ....

He probably sold the club for more than it was worth to the Gaydamak family, but he was out of the picture by then.

He probably sold the club for more than it was worth to the Gaydamak family, but he was out of the picture by then.

The previous administrator, Andrew Andronikou, certainly had the information, but seems to have chosen not to do anything about it. One of my sources is a creditor, so I'd be amazed if he doesn't tell Birch at some point. Anyway, as I said I don't want to get NSC involved in legal action, but...

I wouldn't waste a single tree on a book about that shower.

They never owned a training facility. They rent a place in Eastleigh, in Saints territory. In fact, one bloke who used to work as security there was a Saints fan who ran a memorabilia shop in Northam Road. he was an endless source of information ....

The paper I was working for at that time was very nervous about libel after Martin Samuel cost them a great deal when he wrote that Dave Jones had been shabbily treated by Rupert Lowe - fair comment, you'd think, but not according to the jury. And now that Portsmouth aren't in the Premier League...

Birch also admitted that he is at a loss as to how Portsmouth have got themselves into such a dire situation. "The club is in a default position. It is left with a foot-print around the stadium that they don't own, they don't own the training ground and they don't own the academy. It leaves you...

Well said. I feel for all those Portsmouth fans who, when the press began to alert them to the goings-on at Fratton Park, began to demand answers from Storrie, Gaydamak and Redknapp about the unsustainable spending and the failure to pay even the smallest debts to local businesses, and didn't...

And look at the part the fans have played here - from Atilla standing up on the player' tunnel, to Fans United, to the petitions, everything. What did the self-styled "best fans in the world" at nottarF kraP do? Whinge about the media until even they finally had to admit that all might not have...

I demand to be included in this list. I think I've earned it.

At least Neil isn't a fan, unlike most of his colleagues at The News, and he has been banned by the club in the past, of course - when the appalling Gary Double was in charge of press (for £130,000 per year, incredibly - not bad money for answering his mobile two or three times a week and saying...

I'm with you, SG. Having received regular hate mail from their deluded fans over several years for telling the truth about what was going on and being accused, like many other members of the national media, of having an anti-Pompey agenda (blimey, imagine what they'd have said if the lawyers had...

Apparently it's all already earmarked for the payment of existing debts by the Premier League - they won't see a penny of it.