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for now!

The threat of liquidation has been lifted after the high court ruled against the HMRC.

good for them. i don't particularly like pompey, but i hate to see something like that happening t other football fans.

mr_nool wrote:good for them. i don't particularly like pompey, but i hate to see something like that happening t other football fans.

That's pretty much the way I feel too!

'onest 'arry didn't manage to quite kill them off then!

King Kev wrote:for now!

The threat of liquidation has been lifted after the high court ruled against the HMRC.

Good news for them, i was waiting for a thread to pop up with PORTSMOUTH ARE NO MORE.

I'm trying to muster the "give a shitness" and failing

Pompey have won this battle but I think it's going to have far reaching repercussions in the future. At the moment, if a club goes into administration then everyone gets paid before the taxman - that is any clubs they owe money for transfers and any players wages etc. I can't see HMRC letting this one go and will most certainly get a few of the rules changed to suit themselves in the future.

But, Well Done Pompey, you're back in the driving seat and although you are back with your 'L' plates, at least it's a start.

I'm happy for their fans. Imagine if we were in that position and I assume we've been close. Doesn't bear thinking about.

The only clubs I would want liquidated are the Scum and/or Liverpool.

Exiled wrote:I'm happy for their fans. Imagine if we were in that position and I assume we've been close. Doesn't bear thinking about.

The only clubs I would want liquidated are the Scum and/or Liverpool.

'Liquidated' or 'Liquidised' ;-)

King Kev wrote:

mr_nool wrote:good for them. i don't particularly like pompey, but i hate to see something like that happening t other football fans.

That's pretty much the way I feel too!

'onest 'arry didn't manage to quite kill them off then!

This is what I don't get, people want to cannonize the man, and he is the classic example of a captain abandoning a sinking ship that he ran aground for a better one.

Beefymcfc wrote:

Exiled wrote:I'm happy for their fans. Imagine if we were in that position and I assume we've been close. Doesn't bear thinking about.

The only clubs I would want liquidated are the Scum and/or Liverpool.

'Liquidated' or 'Liquidised' ;-)

Oh go on then, liquidised :D

To be honest, I don't think the powers that be will ever let a prem club (i know they're relegated but you know what i mean) go down the tube. Too much egg on too many faces.

Sorry to buck the trend but I consider them to be a bunch of cheating bastards and I'm sorry that they've not gone.
By buying players with everyone elses cash, it allowed them to stave off relegation in those seasons...AT SOME OTHER CLUB'S EXPENSE.
By doing what they did, they afforded to win the FA Cup at Wembley and take the income from it to assist their plight...AT SOME OTHER CLUB'S EXPENSE.
Some other club that tried to do it properly was penalised by relegation because Pompey were corrupt, it cost that club a fortune in lost income from which they may never recover.
I don't give a shit about whether the revenue get their pound of flesh, but the tea ladies, cleaners and those low waged admin staff who got sacked or the St John's Ambulance or all those local little businesses that suffered at Pompey's expense are the real victims. Those small traders and workers who will now (possibly) only get 20p in the £...sometime...maybe.

john68 wrote:Sorry to buck the trend but I consider them to be a bunch of cheating bastards and I'm sorry that they've not gone.
By buying players with everyone elses cash, it allowed them to stave off relegation in those seasons...AT SOME OTHER CLUB'S EXPENSE.
By doing what they did, they afforded to win the FA Cup at Wembley and take the income from it to assist their plight...AT SOME OTHER CLUB'S EXPENSE.
Some other club that tried to do it properly was penalised by relegation because Pompey were corrupt, it cost that club a fortune in lost income from which they may never recover.
I don't give a shit about whether the revenue get their pound of flesh, but the tea ladies, cleaners and those low waged admin staff who got sacked or the St John's Ambulance or all those local little businesses that suffered at Pompey's expense are the real victims. Those small traders and workers who will now (possibly) only get 20p in the £...sometime...maybe.

I have to say that I agree with what the revenue dudes were saying on this, why the fuck should footballing debts get priority? What is so special about a football club that means they can screw over all their suppliers and just carry on in business? This ruling is a kick in the teeth to all those small suppliers who will never see a penny back whilst Portsmouth carry on as nothing has happened.

irblinx wrote:

john68 wrote:Sorry to buck the trend but I consider them to be a bunch of cheating bastards and I'm sorry that they've not gone.
By buying players with everyone elses cash, it allowed them to stave off relegation in those seasons...AT SOME OTHER CLUB'S EXPENSE.
By doing what they did, they afforded to win the FA Cup at Wembley and take the income from it to assist their plight...AT SOME OTHER CLUB'S EXPENSE.
Some other club that tried to do it properly was penalised by relegation because Pompey were corrupt, it cost that club a fortune in lost income from which they may never recover.
I don't give a shit about whether the revenue get their pound of flesh, but the tea ladies, cleaners and those low waged admin staff who got sacked or the St John's Ambulance or all those local little businesses that suffered at Pompey's expense are the real victims. Those small traders and workers who will now (possibly) only get 20p in the £...sometime...maybe.

I have to say that I agree with what the revenue dudes were saying on this, why the fuck should footballing debts get priority? What is so special about a football club that means they can screw over all their suppliers and just carry on in business? This ruling is a kick in the teeth to all those small suppliers who will never see a penny back whilst Portsmouth carry on as nothing has happened.

And to lot's of other clubs who have been run properly, lived within their means and not won an FA cup on the back of over stretching themselves.

john68 wrote:Sorry to buck the trend but I consider them to be a bunch of cheating bastards and I'm sorry that they've not gone.
By buying players with everyone elses cash, it allowed them to stave off relegation in those seasons...AT SOME OTHER CLUB'S EXPENSE.
By doing what they did, they afforded to win the FA Cup at Wembley and take the income from it to assist their plight...AT SOME OTHER CLUB'S EXPENSE.
Some other club that tried to do it properly was penalised by relegation because Pompey were corrupt, it cost that club a fortune in lost income from which they may never recover.
I don't give a shit about whether the revenue get their pound of flesh, but the tea ladies, cleaners and those low waged admin staff who got sacked or the St John's Ambulance or all those local little businesses that suffered at Pompey's expense are the real victims. Those small traders and workers who will now (possibly) only get 20p in the £...sometime...maybe.

That's fair enough mate, and as I alluded to in the original post, I blame Harry and his cronies for the mess the club found themselves in but I don't see why the fans should lose their club because of it.

It seems that there were a few very dodgy people at Portsmouth who have done some very underhand things and they should be punished - but not the fans.