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I can't remember the details but isn't the preferential creditor the one who is owed 40% of the debt. Somehow Pompey managed to find another creditor to bring in so that HMRC weren't the biggest creditor? I know that sounds clumsy, but I'm sure the administration found a way around it.

Maybe Ken Brown at the time which is why emotive words like gifting and mistake are maybe wide of the mark. It is also well known that Murray was desperately short of cash needed for his settlement with his northern partner. The fact that some Brighton fans were unforgiving of his emotional...

As I said, we offered to double his wages. I don't know if he came back and told us that he was getting offered more up the road or if he just walked. Did he give us a chance to up it? Who knows?

We didn't gift Murray but offered him double his wages which he rejected because Palace offered him a signing on fee and double what we were offering. That is why they started getting into trouble in the first place by paying excessive wages. Poyet confirmed last week that we could only offer...

It was 14 years and there are Palace fans who come on here bragging about how they've spent 35 years in the top 2 divisions. There's one poster with that as his username. Of course we're going to react.

My heart bleeds for you.

I agree but Bloom didn't have his fortune in 97, we had to sell assets, players and were homeless as has been pointed out by Bwian.

The difference is that we knew there was light at the end of the tunnel when we got the planning permission for the stadium.

Stop the 10 point deduction which is minimal and make sure that every team who goes into administration and doesn't pay their debts in full, have to be relegated to the Conference and then fight their way back. Some teams like Plymouth and Swindon have done it the hard way but teams like Pompey...

When they come out of administration which has to be by February or else they're gonners.