Last Post

So this is the end of another blog, and what a season it has been. What is going to happen next season well let me look into my crystal ball ......................... I see but I am not going to tell you!

With no official announcement on new owners yet, I have decided to take no notice of any press or fans site until it is announced on the Portsmouth FC web site. We are very close to the deal going one way or the other, I am getting fed up with one paper saying one thing and the other saying the other. The only people who know what is going on are the club and the Dr and his representatives. So untill they come out of that smoked filled room so to speak we and evryone else know nothing.

So till the next blog gets going Good Bye Pompeygary

New blog at this link BANANA AND STARFISH

Watching Idiots

I used to say to myself when I watched Sunday Supplement " what are these people on?" they used to talk such utter drivel, they seemed to think they new it all. To me they were Football fans last and bully boy hacks first, they are so far removed from what the real fan is thinking it is a bit scary. So I was not surprised to find the Pompeytgate rubbish is the work of one of these morons, a none story story, what is his problem with my team? well I tell ye in hack fashion

Headline "POMPEY-HATING GEORDIE HACK FILLS THE SUN WITH LOAD OF CACK"

And there is more substance in that headline than anything this idiot has ever written.

At This Time

As things stand in my mind Pompey are in the same position as we were at the end of the season, the owner wants to sell the club and will not put more money in. The club are still cutting costs and balancing the books to make the club break even. The players that are going or gone want to go, and I think there must be a clause in Glen Johnson's contract to the effect that if a big club come in for him he can go, and I think the money for him is a good deal but it is sad to see him go.
As with the proposed sale of the club to Sulaiman Al-Fahim we are in the process of Due diligence as of the time of the announcement on the club web site and to the press so we are only half way through, the announcement of the selling of the club is usually done when Due diligence is completed and finalized but with other clubs trying to tempt Sulaiman Al-Fahim away from Pompey Peter Storrie had announce it to the world. We would know nothing about this now but it has been pushed to the public for the sake of the take over.
The selling of players is ultimately up to the owner not Sulaiman Al-Fahim who is not, until the sale of the club goes through.
So until we get a new owner things will stay on course with what Peter Storrie has said all along "we need to balance the books"
By the way I am not going to waste my time talking about the rubbish in the National press over this story so I wont. Play Up Pompey!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Dr in the house

So the good Dr made a visit to Fratton Park yesterday, I have been waiting for something more than just paper talk and to see the Dr at the park was encouraging and by all accounts he was a nice guy.
Questions on the message board and in the press are as follows.
When will the deal be completed? I don't know
What are the Dr's plans? Who knows
Where is the money coming from? Your guess is as good as mine.
This is what I want if all goes well, the redevelopment of Fratton Park, the new training facility and keeping of our best players and improvement of the squad and a new stadium.Not much to ask for then! oh I forgot paying of our debt.
The only thing the press can find to be negative about this (I do believe that some of the press hate Pompey and every year they can't wait or Pompey to fall) is the FA's Fit and Proper checks, I hope this gets the go ahead witch I think it will, as Portsmouth are one of the proposed city's for the world cup and the Dr is the only man to deliver a world class stadium for Pompey and England that may help things!. Why are we the first club to get problems when we are going to get a rich owner, they are all against us I tell you!!!!!!!!

New Owner

It was one afternoon I was looking at some message boards and one of the headers came up and said "Pompey bought by Billionaire Arab" so looking at it thinking it would be a joke article or a wind up. But no as the afternoon went on it started to appear on more and more reputable web sites until this below appeared on the Portsmouth web site. I am not going to get to excited until the deal is done and dusted. The press I think were caught with there trousers down with this one, I had a feeling they were sharpening their knives for our potential fire sale and demise. So they can go and pick on someone else so to all the press I say "Fuck Of And Die"

So I am going to extend this blog until the sale goes through, so if it does well done Peter Storrie.

Portsmouth Football Club can confirm that it has accepted an offer from Dr Sulaiman Al Fahim to buy the club.

This follows initial due diligence and negotiations with Portsmouth executive chairman Peter Storrie on behalf of club owner Alexandre Gaydamak.

Peter Storrie concluded the deal with Dr Sulaiman Al Fahim in Rome on Tuesday night.

A period of formal legal and financial due diligence will commence next week so that the transaction can be completed as soon as possible.

The club cannot make any further comment on the future structure of the club until this period has been completed.

Wigan1-0Pompey

So we ended this season on a defeat, I did not even have the radio on for this one I was watching Newcastle get relegated sad I know. So that's it for another season a slightly different end to this season than the last, what will happen next term?

Wigan: Kingson, Melchiot, Boyce, Bramble, Figueroa, Valencia, Cattermole, Brown, N'Zogbia (McManaman 78), De Ridder (Routledge 90), Rodallega.
Subs Not Used: Pollitt, Edman, Cho, Watson, Kupisz.

Goals: Rodallega 26.

Portsmouth: Begovic, Kaboul (Kanu 72), Campbell, Distin, Hreidarsson, Pennant (Thomas 72), Hughes, Mullins, Traore, Utaka, Crouch.
Subs Not Used: Ashdown, Primus, Pamarot, Cranie, Basinas.

Booked: Hreidarsson, Hughes, Crouch, Thomas.

Att: 17,696

Referee: Phil Dowd (Staffordshire).

Portsmouth 3-1 Sunderland

Well what a good Finnish to the season at home. It seemed for the first half that as we were safe that we might lose this, we started with quite an attacking formation for once 4-3-3, but strangely I am glad to say when we went to 4-4-2- in the second half and went on to win from one down. But to me the highlight of the night was when Linvoy came on for the last five and it gave the game that added extra punch that we have been missing at home since the AC Milan.

It was good to go back to my old haunt and have a couple of drinks. The place soon got busy with a glow of relief that we were now safe for this season. The only downside for Mum was the lack of Stella. Well there is no accounting for taste.

The visitors took the lead against the run of play when Calum Davenport's cross was tapped in by Kenwyne Jones.

John Utaka fired in an equaliser a minute later and then forced Phil Bardsley to bundle in an own goal that gave the home side the lead.

Portsmouth went down the other end to score; Utaka finding Traore on the left and the defender drilled a shot past Fulop into the far corner to seal the win.

So except for pride and a bit more money, the game against Wigan there is not much to play for I still hope for a win, but I will be more interested in the 4 way who is going down matches that will be one afternoon in front of the box.

Portsmouth: Begovic, Johnson, Campbell, Distin, Hreidarsson, Utaka, Davis, Mullins, Hughes (Traore 46), Kanu (Kaboul 46), Crouch (Primus 90).
Subs Not Used: Ashdown, Nugent, Basinas, Belhadj.

Booked: Utaka.

Goals: Utaka 60, Bardsley 68 og, Traore 88.

Sunderland: Fulop, Bardsley, Davenport, Ferdinand, Collins, Tainio (Cisse 80), Malbranque (Edwards 54), Whitehead, Leadbitter (Murphy 85), Richardson, Jones.
Subs Not Used: Colgan, Reid, Healy, McShane.

Goals: Jones 59.

Att: 20,398

Ref: Alan Wiley (Staffordshire).