Pompey

[cheshiregreen]

......and to add to the woes, now this

Cash-strapped Portsmouth have been fined by the Premier League for breaching rules and regulations over the course of the season.

The penalty of about £1m relates to a number of issues, including the late payment of wages and transfer fees.

 

[Ave IT]

Players put hands in their own pockets

Makes a change to hear a nicer side to some players for once. I can’t get my head around the idea that laying off a few ‘ordinary’ people will help in the slightest - but maybe that’s the administrators’ orders. Not surprised to hear David James credited with the move – I’ve heard other things to suggest he is a decent bloke who appreciates his own good fortune and apparently does a lot of work for good causes without wanting it splashed all over the press when he does. A friend of a friend of mine did some building work at his house not knowing he lived there. DJ walked in and was very un-starry and friendly, making them teas & bringing biscuits and even fetching and carrying gear from their truck for them.

 

[Misco]

Portsmouth today given permission to sell players outside the transfer window.

Are there any centre backs or in fact any defenders which would be available to us?

 

[Mike Greening]

Portsmouth today given permission to sell players outside the transfer window.

Are there any centre backs or in fact any defenders which would be available to us?

It's poo isn't it. Any other club would not be allowed to do it. Just goes to show that the F A (NOW WHAT DOES THAT REALLY STAND FOR) will do any thing to protect the premier teams. If they are allowed to do it so should anyone else. They should abolish the transfer window. Come to think of it they should do football in this country a favour and abolish themselves. :twisted:

 

[Devonport Ender]

Hermann Hreiðarsson

Doubt interested clubs would be able to play the players until next season

 

[Quinny]

Just goes to show that the F A (NOW WHAT DOES THAT REALLY STAND FOR) will do any thing to protect the premier teams.

The Premier League have given permission for Pompey to sell players, under certain provisos - that they can be sold to another Premier League club, but they can't play this season. Any sale of a player to a Football League club (i.e. Argyle) or an overseas club would need FIFA approval.

 

[mde203]

WHAT?!?!?!? What a joke. When were Chester allowed to do this? Or Leeds? Or Bournemouth/Southampton/Crystal Palace? Ridiculous, football is a complete joke nowadays, what a load of planks running this game.

 

[DuncMcRae]

I think if we were a prem club I'd be really hacked off with this move. Why does the worst club in the league get a reward that the rest don't get?

 

[Gareth Nicholson]

WHAT?!?!?!? What a joke. When were Chester allowed to do this? Or Leeds? Or Bournemouth/Southampton/Crystal Palace? Ridiculous, football is a complete joke nowadays, what a load of planks running this game.

The decision about Portsmouth was made by the Premier League. None of the other clubs you mentioned were in the Premier League when they went into administration, therefore the situation never arose. The governance of football is a mess at the moment, and it does raise serious questions about where the game is going, but in this instance the comparison isn't really valid.

 

[Mike Greening]

WHAT?!?!?!? What a joke. When were Chester allowed to do this? Or Leeds? Or Bournemouth/Southampton/Crystal Palace? Ridiculous, football is a complete joke nowadays, what a load of planks running this game.

The decision about Portsmouth was made by the Premier League. None of the other clubs you mentioned were in the Premier League when they went into administration, therefore the situation never arose. The governance of football is a mess at the moment, and it does raise serious questions about where the game is going, but in this instance the comparison isn't really valid.

IT IS AS THEY ARE ALL FOOTBALL CLUBS WITH FOOTBALL SUPPORTERS. :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :twisted:

 

[up the line]

Aah the old Premier Cartel strikes again.
This really does prove how crooked Football is, the bully boys of the Prem gather round their buddy in his self inflicted crisis.
Makes me more and more angry that Argyle didn't just do the same & bet a wad of money they didn't have on getting into the Prem a couple of seasons ago.

 

[Paul_Roberts]

WHAT?!?!?!? What a joke. When were Chester allowed to do this? Or Leeds? Or Bournemouth/Southampton/Crystal Palace? Ridiculous, football is a complete joke nowadays, what a load of planks running this game.

The decision about Portsmouth was made by the Premier League. None of the other clubs you mentioned were in the Premier League when they went into administration, therefore the situation never arose. The governance of football is a mess at the moment, and it does raise serious questions about where the game is going, but in this instance the comparison isn't really valid.

IT IS AS THEY ARE ALL FOOTBALL CLUBS WITH FOOTBALL SUPPORTERS. :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :twisted:

The point Gareth is making is that most countries have a unitary FA - and they generally hold all the power and make all the rules.
English football's most powerful body, however, is the Premier League - which seems to be able to bend the FA's rules with impunity. Think of the FA as a modern-day British monarch: once all-powerful, internationally respected, soaked in tradition, wealthy with a grand home... but ultimately toothless.

 

[Mike Greening]

Did you say toothless or useless :twisted:

 

[Iggy]

To be fair i wonder if this is done to protect or aid some of the creditors that Pompey owe money to, in this case I would applaud it.
I also echo all your sentiments about the prem and the way footy in general is going.

 

[Mike Greening]

It is just that from the top of football down to the bottom it is not a level playing field. All the cream goes to the premier sides and to cap it all they reward failure with parachute payments which discriminates against the teams in the championship :twisted: :twisted: