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Why Weymouth should be worried
Just how brazen can you get in flouting the Fit and Proper Person test? See my last posting for some suggestions. There is however a new contender. Latest on the takeover at Weymouth from the Dorset...
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More high drama at Weymouth
A press conference scheduled for last night was postponed, and the Dorset Echo has carried two reports today (1 and 2) which provide some insight, if not full transparency, on what is going on....
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More on Portsmouth’s woes
Since my last posting on Pompey (1), not a great deal has happened off the pitch it would seem. On the pitch, Liverpool have been defeated, with the media reporting this as ‘Rafa this’ and ‘Rafa...
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Portsmouth: the continuing soap
One of my friends, who is also a colleague and a fellow Pompey fan, always says that supporting Pompey reminds him of a John Cleese quotation: “I can cope with the despair. It’s the hope I cannot...
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Whatever happened to due diligence?
In much the same way that you would get a surveyor’s report as a matter of course when considering buying a house, so you would ‘conduct due diligence’ if you were considering buying any company,...
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Developments at Wrexham
Readers may recall that I have blogged on the farcical attempts of Wrexham’s owners to paralyse legitimate (as well as objectionable) discussion on the RedPassion message board (see RedPassion...
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Setting up own goals
I’m not one given to railing against foreign owners in principle, providing that is that they are not absentee owners. Lately though we seem to be finding foreign owners attracted to English clubs who...
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The Portsmouth Soap: Episode 94
In what seems to be now a tradition, my being abroad for a week coincided with yet again a bizarre development at Fratton Park. On Tuesday The Sun revealed that “Lever’s Pomped up for buyout....
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When a club is at its most vulnerable
A week can be a long time in football, but, having been out of the country for a week, working in the Tirol, I find it quite surprising in some ways how little has happened, or, to be more precise,...
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Just how slow can a car crash be?
On Tuesday we were told that the long-running Plymouth Argyle saga was on the verge of taking a significant turn according to Administrator Brendan Guilfoyle: “at a meeting with the preferred bidder...
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“Completely vindicated”? Well, not quite completely
The press have been quick to quote Peter Ridsale as saying that he had been “completely vindicated” following the dropping of charges fraud brought against him by Cardiff Training Standards Department...
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That feeling of déjà vu at Pompey, all over again
Portsmouth’s return to Administration today (1) for the second time in a smidgen under two years speaks volumes, especially coming in the week that Rangers, a rather more iconic club, suffered the...
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