Vlad the Fox Posted 14 February 2012 Posted 14 February 2012 Portsmouth Football Club set for administration Portsmouth are set to enter administration for the second time in as many years. Issued with a winding-up petition by HM Revenue and Customs on 3 January, the Championship club were due at the Royal Courts of Justice on 20 February. They face a 10-point penalty, which would leave them 21st in the table. Should hate to see forest or cov escape because of this. (From the BBC)
Wherethefoxhat? Posted 14 February 2012 Posted 14 February 2012 They should ask Mandaric & Redknapp for it back !!!!
Captain... Posted 14 February 2012 Posted 14 February 2012 Would rather have a whip round for Kettering, they genuinely seem on the brink.
LCFC FOX Posted 14 February 2012 Posted 14 February 2012 What about Plymouth , Darlington and Kettering?
acooling08 Posted 14 February 2012 Posted 14 February 2012 Agree with OP, first thing I thought of after seeing the possible 10 point deduction was 'bollocks, that'll help forest and cov'. Why can't Man City who pay their players £millions each month put £5 million into a rescue pot. That is nothing to them but would do Pompey the world of good. It seems like the morally right thing to do.
acooling08 Posted 14 February 2012 Posted 14 February 2012 What about Plymouth , Darlington and Kettering? No offence to the above clubs, but they are hardly great losses to football in the same way as Portsmouth who actually have a great history as the 'mighty pompey' in the 40s and 50s.
Craig Posted 14 February 2012 Posted 14 February 2012 They are to their fans. What a ridiculous statement.
leicesterisme Posted 14 February 2012 Posted 14 February 2012 Agree with OP, first thing I thought of after seeing the possible 10 point deduction was 'bollocks, that'll help forest and cov'. Why can't Man City who pay their players £millions each month put £5 million into a rescue pot. That is nothing to them but would do Pompey the world of good. It seems like the morally right thing to do. What? Man City should give money to the likes of Pompey because their owners have ran their club shambolicly? No thanks. The clubs that should be recieving that kind of money is the likes of Kettering.
Bayfox Posted 14 February 2012 Posted 14 February 2012 Rangers maybe going cheap!! rather save them than pompey, however the comment about clubs like Darlington and Kettering meaning nothing to football is shocking, lets hope LCFC never have to go through that fate again.
Finnegan Posted 14 February 2012 Posted 14 February 2012 Portsmouth's a big place, as I've said about other sides, it'll always have a football club. The company Portsmouth FC PLC, or whatever the **** its called, may have been destroyed by moronic businessmen but the tens of thousands of Pompey fans won't be denied. There'll be a phoenix club and, in time, it'll be back in professional football. If football bailed out the owners of clubs like Portsmouth after the shit it's gone through then nobody ever learns. The Ketterings of this world, however? They're the clubs that really need help.
darko2k7 Posted 14 February 2012 Posted 14 February 2012 No offence to the above clubs, but they are hardly great losses to football in the same way as Portsmouth who actually have a great history as the 'mighty pompey' in the 40s and 50s. AND.... who cares about their great history and really who on here can honestly say if pomey went under they would have a feeling of loss. I only feel sorry for the fans and for the other companys involved in pompy who will now lose alot of money owed them by pompy should pompy go into admin AGAIN
21st Century Fox Posted 14 February 2012 Posted 14 February 2012 All the owners and board members involved in the poor running should receive a lifetime ban from running a football club and a 'rescue fund' should be put together to help the fans rebuild a new club a la AFC Wimbledon.
flowwolf Posted 14 February 2012 Posted 14 February 2012 No offence to the above clubs, but they are hardly great losses to football in the same way as Portsmouth who actually have a great history as the 'mighty pompey' in the 40s and 50s. No offence to the above clubs, but they are hardly great losses to football in the same way as Portsmouth who actually have a great history as the 'mighty pompey' in the 40s and 50s. Bloody short memories on here. Lots of other fans would have said the same about us when we were in the shit. Talk about i'm all right jack !
bluesbrothers Posted 14 February 2012 Posted 14 February 2012 I'd happily put a quid or two aside before matchday if people were taking collections for the likes of Pompey, Darlington, Kettering or Plymouth. The Rangers story however? Well, I and many others have always said that it'd take one of the really big clubs hitting the wall to really wake everyone up to how screwed up football finance is. I don't think theres a sane person on earth that has the finance to absorb £75 million of debt, take on the running costs of a big fish in a very small pond in a mess of an economic climate and increase turnover to make a profit in a league with dwindling interest. The bigger they are, the harder they fall. If Ranger's money woes were to continue and they dropped out of the SPL (a real possibility - this 10 point deduction looming would probably be the first of many) the repurcussions could see the death of the professional league in Scotland altogether - exposing it for the bloated, tinpot 2-horse race it is. Rangers is Greece, and the SPL is the EU. Go figure.
acooling08 Posted 14 February 2012 Posted 14 February 2012 I didn't say that others clubs in administration shouldn't be rescued but I think clubs like Portsmouth who have been important for the history of football should get priority.
DB11 Posted 14 February 2012 Posted 14 February 2012 Pompey lived the high life after promotion to the Premiership. It's their own fault... if they had spent wisely maybe they'd have been relegated instead of Leicester, and would be in a good financial position
AaronH Posted 14 February 2012 Posted 14 February 2012 No offence to the above clubs, but they are hardly great losses to football in the same way as Portsmouth who actually have a great history as the 'mighty pompey' in the 40s and 50s. Kettering actually have quite a history firstly they are the highest scores in the FA cup and also the first british team to have sponsors on their shirts.
flowwolf Posted 14 February 2012 Posted 14 February 2012 I'd happily put a quid or two aside before matchday if people were taking collections for the likes of Pompey, Darlington, Kettering or Plymouth. The Rangers story however? Well, I and many others have always said that it'd take one of the really big clubs hitting the wall to really wake everyone up to how screwed up football finance is. I don't think theres a sane person on earth that has the finance to absorb £75 million of debt, take on the running costs of a big fish in a very small pond in a mess of an economic climate and increase turnover to make a profit in a league with dwindling interest. The bigger they are, the harder they fall. If Ranger's money woes were to continue and they dropped out of the SPL (a real possibility - this 10 point deduction looming would probably be the first of many) the repurcussions could see the death of the professional league in Scotland altogether - exposing it for the bloated, tinpot 2-horse race it is. Rangers is Greece, and the SPL is the EU. Go figure. Totally agree. Rangers are like Celtic a bigoted sectarian blemish on the name of sport. I would love to see either of them go under. The thing I don't understand is how in England the media give them and the Scottish leagues so much coverage . So much in fact that they get a mention before the championship. It's all politics I suppose. So fvcking good riddance to them and all piss pot scottish clubs.
Wherethefoxhat? Posted 14 February 2012 Posted 14 February 2012 pay up pompey ! pompey pay up ! Brilliant !!
Vlad the Fox Posted 14 February 2012 Author Posted 14 February 2012 All the owners and board members involved in the poor running should receive a lifetime ban from running a football club and a 'rescue fund' should be put together to help the fans rebuild a new club a la AFC Wimbledon. Totally agree with this. Everyone who cant walk away, the supporters and staff, people who are owed money are the ones left to suffer while some of these people take up positions in other clubs (Ridsdale and Elsom). This for me is why the point deduction is wrong as it punishes the wrong people, people who will suffer enough as a result of the previous owners actions. If football was to go down the road of rescue packages then it must come from a form of insurance that all clubs pay into. Any club drawing from this fund should face strict financial controls imposed by the FA until the money is paid back. But as someone said, why would man city or united want to pay into something that has no benefit to themselves.
Larry_LCFC Posted 14 February 2012 Posted 14 February 2012 I think Im ill. As much as I hate forest, I really dont want to see them get relegated.
LCFCstriker Posted 14 February 2012 Posted 14 February 2012 I'd happily put a quid or two aside before matchday if people were taking collections for the likes of Pompey, Darlington, Kettering or Plymouth. The Rangers story however? Well, I and many others have always said that it'd take one of the really big clubs hitting the wall to really wake everyone up to how screwed up football finance is. I don't think theres a sane person on earth that has the finance to absorb £75 million of debt, take on the running costs of a big fish in a very small pond in a mess of an economic climate and increase turnover to make a profit in a league with dwindling interest. The bigger they are, the harder they fall. If Ranger's money woes were to continue and they dropped out of the SPL (a real possibility - this 10 point deduction looming would probably be the first of many) the repurcussions could see the death of the professional league in Scotland altogether - exposing it for the bloated, tinpot 2-horse race it is. Rangers is Greece, and the SPL is the EU. Go figure. Even with the 10 point deduction they would be in second place, 9 points ahead of 3rd but 14 behind 1st, that's how much of a two horse race it is!
buzzy Posted 14 February 2012 Posted 14 February 2012 No offence to the above clubs, but they are hardly great losses to football in the same way as Portsmouth who actually have a great history as the 'mighty pompey' in the 40s and 50s. you talk utter crap those smaller clubs are the bread and butter of football why the hell should pompey get any help when it is twice in 3 years that they go into adminstration .the mighty pompey you havin a laugh
Kitchandro Posted 14 February 2012 Posted 14 February 2012 If Forest stay up because of this I'll hate Portsmouth forever. They were 5 points adrift for god's sake.
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