Could Portsmouth save us?

[Fonda]

We'll be really unlucky if we're not saved by another team going bust. If anyone else was near the bottom of the League, you can be sure they'd be saved. Everyone hates us. :}

[Dutchgull]

Portsmouth ...£60 - £80 million in debt doesn't matter they will get away with ...its just a sick joke.

[Scott Brehaut]

We'll be really unlucky if we're not saved by another team going bust. If anyone else was near the bottom of the League, you can be sure they'd be saved. Everyone hates us. :}

[Neal]

Makes me lose interest and faith in Football to be honest. How can a club that much in debt get away with it.

IMHO if you go into administration you should be relegated at least 2 divisions immediately. Its cheating spending money you dont have to beat other clubs that are thrifty.

[AustrianAndyGull]

You shouldn't have administration full stop. Should any debt become payable then it must be paid in full within a week or fold the club. Everyone knows where they stand and the punishment is the most severe. No time for it now, pay up or p*ss off.

[AlexGulls]

Bury need a million sharpish to save them as well...

http://www.buryfc.co.uk/news/article/bu ... 64293.aspx

[SuperNickyWroe]

I wish them all the best.............

[ferrarilover]

It's not for the football league to decide Portsmouth fate, that is up to HMRC's

Their reluctance to make "a big boy" pay for football's attitude to tax and VAT is probably just making the matter worse

I think we are looking at two related but separate issues, are we not? HMRC can apply to wind up PFC the company, but PFC the 11 men on a grassy area hacking a pig's bladder about, that is under threat from the Football League and their Super License (or whatever it's called) which allows clubs (not businesses) the right to play in the FL.
I will confess to not having looked this up at all and going from memory, but I think this is at least the jist of the matter.
Obviously, in real terms, if there is no PFC the business, then there is no PFC the football team, but I guess in theory the two things are sufficiently separate that one could exist without the other, it's just they would have to play at a local park and the players would have to be unpaid etc.

Matt.