Portsmouth is, currently, living on borrowed time. Described as “insolvent” by Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs department, they’ve got until next Wednesday at 4:30 PM GMT to prove that they can pay their £11.5 million tax bill; failure to do so will result in liquidation. Liquidation, it should be noted, is different from administration in [...]
Archive for February, 2010
How A Portsmouth-Less League Would Look
Posted in English Premier League, Financials, tagged English Premier League, Financial Disasters, Portsmouth on February 10, 2010 | 13 Comments »
The Thursday Challenge: The Answers
Posted in FIFA, General, Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics, Off the Pitch, South America, Trivia, USMNT, Whimsy, Wild Ass Guesses on February 10, 2010 | 8 Comments »
Well, as usual, both of “the Andrews” took a stab at last week’s challenge, but unfortunately neither got them all right- but one did do significantly better than the other. I won’t single out “that” Andrew, he can suffer in his own personal silence… No, we had one winning entry this week and it was [...]
Chester City Players Wish They Had it as Good as Portsmouth Players
Posted in Blue Square Premier, tagged Blue Square Premier, Chester City, Financial Disasters on February 9, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
It’s all well and good to mock Portsmouth for not paying their players. After all, Pompey is one of the twenty clubs lucky enough to be in the top league in the world; their players should be compensated appropriately, and it’s completely ridiculous that it isn’t happening. It was ridiculous with Valencia last year, and [...]
Rooting for Arsenal is like watching Groundhog Day
Posted in General, tagged Arsenal, Arsenal Victimes, Arsene Wenger, Editorial on February 9, 2010 | 9 Comments »
I started writing this post a week ago, after Arsenal lost to Manchester United in quite an uninspiring performance. Arsenal were rather heavily outmatched by a United squad that wasn’t really expected to be that good this season. I wasn’t happy with the game, but as I was writing I realized that an even bigger [...]
Football Club Seeks Owner for Fun, Possible LTR
Posted in The Championship, tagged Crystal Palace, Financial Disasters on February 9, 2010 | 7 Comments »
This has what it’s come to, folks. In today’s Financial Times, the administrators who are now in charge of Crystal Palace ran this ad to try drum up a new owner. If it reminds you vaguely of the tactics used to try and sell Michael Owen, then you’re starting to pick up on the pattern [...]
A television update – FSC in HD on the dishes
Posted in Swimming the Chanels, tagged Swimming the Chanels on February 8, 2010 | 12 Comments »
Grant Wahl of Sports Illustrated reported today on Twitter that Fox Soccer Channel will begin to be shown in high definition on both major satellite services (DirecTV and Dish Network) as of Wednesday February 10. According to his source, there is nothing new to report with the major cable players, so your best bet there is [...]
“These managers all know their onions and cut their cloth accordingly.” – Mark Lawrenson
Posted in Weekend Open Thread, tagged Sunday open thread on February 7, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Victoria Park It’s yet another massive derby in the Barclay’s Premier League today as Arsenal get on the bus and travel through the busy streets of London to the west, and park in front of Stamford Bridge. Both clubs are facing major issues at the moment. For third place Arsenal, there can be no denying [...]
