Mr Banana
Tedious chump
I'll take that bet if you want. Name the odds you want me to give you, pay me whenever.
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Pompey seem to be in a tad of bother
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I'll take that bet if you want. Name the odds you want me to give you, pay me whenever.
So Sam, you "predict" that Portsmouth are going to win EVERY single "6 pointer" from now on?
Probably not, but I'd say they're the more likely team to win those games (as individual games) than lose them.
Barrel of Fun
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The BBC have claimed that Portsmouth are £95m in debt.
Curious Orange
Punxsatawney Phil
Well, I see Pompey are now officially in Administration so the 9 point deduction will be ratified. The Administrator chap has said he is going to challenge that, but I reckon he's wasting his time as the precedent has already been set with previous Football League cases - I doubt the authorities will respond any differently just because it is a different competition's rules.
£1. 200/1.
In all seriousness, if I knew more about the points deduction, I'd consider it.
Silent Bob
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They're getting it tomorrow.
Icy Gull
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So will it be carried over to next season if they end up with a low enough points tally to get relegated without the deduction? Hasn't a precedent been set with Leeds and Southampton on this or does the Premier League and the Championship operate different rulings?
Silent Bob
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I was under the impression that the Football League rule was that it had to be done by a certain point or it would be carried over?
It probably is different anyway since the Premier League and Football League are different bodies.
It is difficult to know because, technically speaking, they are completely seperate organisations. If Portsmouth don't get their finances sorted by the time that the football league confirms its membership for next season, the league could refuse to accept them as a member, dock them further points, or even relegate them further (as the conference did to Boston). Portsmouth going into administration will be a test case and will probably form the example that future Premier League clubs in administration will follow.
beorhthelm
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even without the deduction they have no hope. your predictions are hoplessly optimistic, i cant see them getting anything from any game other than the home games to hull, blackburn and wolves and maybe a cheeky result away. 10 points max and they are 8 adrift.
Docked 9 points today 
ENGLAND goalkeeper David James is leading a bid to set up a Portsmouth players’ fighting fund for the staff who this week lost their jobs.
And the Daily Express can reveal James also failed in an effort to save two Pompey workers by offering to pay their wages for the rest of the season.
So badly botched were the attempts of Portsmouth’s administrators to make cutbacks that laundry worker Mary Butcher suffered a panic attack and collapsed when she wrongly thought she had lost her job.
James offered to slash his £55,000-a-week wages, but was told that would not stop the cuts.
The administrators also turned down James’s plan to pay the £300-a-week wages of training-ground manager ‘Tug’ Wilson and kitman Clarke Denford that would have cost him about £6,000.
James, who has agreed to waive a clause in his contract worth more than £2m, is close to both Wilson and Denford but it was deemed special individual cases could not be made.
“I heard David had offered to pay my wages and that is incredible,” said 64-year-old Wilson, who had been at Portsmouth for eight and a half years.
Portsmouth’s hopes of survival were yesterday given a boost when Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs accepted the club’s move into administration.
And the Daily Express can reveal James also failed in an effort to save two Pompey workers by offering to pay their wages for the rest of the season.
So badly botched were the attempts of Portsmouth’s administrators to make cutbacks that laundry worker Mary Butcher suffered a panic attack and collapsed when she wrongly thought she had lost her job.
James offered to slash his £55,000-a-week wages, but was told that would not stop the cuts.
The administrators also turned down James’s plan to pay the £300-a-week wages of training-ground manager ‘Tug’ Wilson and kitman Clarke Denford that would have cost him about £6,000.
James, who has agreed to waive a clause in his contract worth more than £2m, is close to both Wilson and Denford but it was deemed special individual cases could not be made.
“I heard David had offered to pay my wages and that is incredible,” said 64-year-old Wilson, who had been at Portsmouth for eight and a half years.
Portsmouth’s hopes of survival were yesterday given a boost when Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs accepted the club’s move into administration.
Barrel of Fun
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I do too.
Curious Orange
Punxsatawney Phil
Only if they don't come out of administration through a CVA.
Tug Wilson?? Rings a lot of bells.
rusty redeyes
New member
they deserve all they get, they've cheated by having players they can't afford to even pay for and on inflated salaries.
Our Tug Wilson made his Albion debut in 1922, so it's not the same one.