Var det prisen værd?
This is the town I won’t forget
And after anger there’s nothing left
Walking now round and round
Familiar sights are open ground Being here again, I can recall
Forgotten moments, the rise and fall
The sun shines east, the sun shines west
But I know where the sun shines best
Casey street in the afternoon
Once again it’s over too soon
Sådan lyder en del af teksten I sangen Rise and Fall, og den kunne godt dække over det som mange fans føler i øjeblikket.
Pokerspil.
For de afgørende slag skal slås om klubben, rundt om pokerbordet sidder flere spillere.
PKF: Er administrator af klubben og skal finde en ny ejer til at tage klubben ud af administration.
PST: Pompey supporter Trust, har fået godkendt deres bud, og er som det står nu, eneste der kan købe klubben.
Portpin: Ejes af Chainrai der efter sigende £ 18 mill til gode hos Pompey
Keith Harris: Tidligere formand for The Football League, har budt på klubben, men The Football League har sagt nej, selvom PKF har sagt ja Keith Harris er ligeså beskyldt for at agere for Portpin.
Football League: Skal vare tage klubbernes interesser, og har sagt nej til Keith Harris buddet.
Stadion.
Fratton Park er det som er det store omdrejningspunkt, for det er slaget om stadion det handler om. Portpin/Chainrai holder Fratton Park som ’Ransom’.
PST har budt £ 2.75 mill for Fratton Park, hvilket Portpin/Chainrai har sagt nej til. Det er hvad retssagen primært handler om. Får PST lov til at købe Fratton Park, til det som de har vurderet den til, og den vurdering er PST og Portpin sjovt nok dybt uenige om.
Det kan ende med i sidste ende, at det er retten der afgør hvad værdien af Fratton Park er.
Hvad koster den.
Prisen, ja den kan så blive en udfordring, for PST har ikke uanede resourcer, men omvendt, så PST åben for at få andre ind og støtte op om deres arbejde. For PST har ambitionen om 100 % ejerskab, og derfor har de takket nej til tilbuddet fra Keith Harris, om at få 15 % af aktierne i en ny struktur.
Prisen for FA triumfen.
Pompey havde deres store triumf tilbage i 2008, den dag vandt vi FA cuppen, der gik mange hjem den dag, med stolthed. Det samme gjorde jeg, og en tanke slog mig dengang. Hvis det hele går rabundus for Pompey, så var den sejr det hele værd. Det var den ultimative drøm, at Pompey skulle vinde et stort trofæ.
Nu kan det så blive virkelighed, for Pompey er sendt ud i tovene, og mine tanker den dag da vi vandt FA Cuppen, de kan nu blive scenariet.
Bliver det så sådan, at Pompey går rabundus og skal starte forfra, så mister klubben de sidste parachute Payment, og skal nok et par rækker ned, og spørger du mig så om det var det hele værd med den triumf.
Ja, det var det, og jeg er også med, selvom vi skal en del rækker ned.
The Rise and Fall.
Så teksten som jeg startede artiklen med The Rise and Fall,, er det som Pompey gennemgår, vi steg op til tindernes højde med FA Cup sejren, og nu er vi ved at falde ned
This is the town I won’t forget
And after anger there’s nothing left
Walking now round and round
Familiar sights are open ground Being here again, I can recall
Forgotten moments, the rise and fall
The sun shines east, the sun shines west
But I know where the sun shines best
Casey street in the afternoon
Once again it’s over too soon
Milestones de sidste 4 år.
Hvis du har glemt lidt af alt dette som skete et år efter vi vandt trofæet, så lad dine øjne glide ned over nedenstående, hvor der er samlet mange af de milepæle der har været de sidste 4 år!
May 27, 2009: Portsmouth reveal takeover bid from Sulaiman Al Fahim.
July 1: Glen Johnson sold to Liverpool for £18 million.
July 21: Al Fahim passes Premier League’s fit-and-proper persons test and immediately joins Portsmouth board.
July 27: Peter Crouch sold to Tottenham for £9m.
Aug 19: Club open negotiations with a consortium fronted by chief executive Peter Storrie over a possible takeover.
Aug 26: Al Fahim finally completes takeover.
Aug 28: Sylvain Distin sold to Everton.
Sept 1: Niko Kranjcar sold to Tottenham.
Oct 1: Club admit failing to pay players’ wages on time.
Oct 5: Ali Al Faraj becomes new owner after acquiring 90 per cent of the shares from Al Fahim.
Oct 7: Avram Grant appointed director of football.
Oct 28: Premier League issue embargo on Portsmouth registering new players until they pay off debts to Chelsea and Arsenal for the signings of Glen Johnson and Lassana Diarra respectively.
Oct 30: Portsmouth receive loan of around £17m from Portpin Limited, a company which is owned by Balram Chainrai.
Nov 24: Manager Paul Hart sacked.
Nov 26: Club announce Grant will be their next manager.
Dec 3: Portsmouth confirm payment of players’ wages has again been delayed.
Dec 4: Club announce players have been paid.
Dec 5: Grant earns his first points with a 2-0 win over Burnley at Fratton Park.
Dec 10: Portsmouth respond to speculation over their future by insisting they are not about to go into administration. In a statement they also reveal HM Revenue and Customs have been paid £2m and «other historical arrears are being dealt with on an ongoing basis.» The club also stresses Storrie will not be leaving his post as chief executive.
Dec 19: Beat Liverpool 2-0 at Fratton Park.
Dec 30: HMRC issue a winding up petition against Portsmouth. Club say petition is in respect of «VAT, PAYE and national Insurance contributions which either have been, or are about to be paid, or are disputed». They outline their willingness to fight HMRC in the High Court.
Dec 31: Former owner Alexandre Gaydamak claims he is still owed £28m by Portsmouth. Confirmation that the players and staff have not been paid on time for the third time in four months.
Jan 28, 2010: Premier League lifts transfer embargo for loan and free transfers after confirming Portsmouth no longer owe other clubs any money. The league had diverted around £5m of Portsmouth’s broadcast payments direct to other clubs.
Jan 29: Storrie suggests his position is almost untenable after negotiations to sell Asmir Begovic and Younes Kaboul take place without his knowledge.
Jan 31: Transfer window closes with Kaboul and Begovic sold for £8.5m. Premier League keeps £2m of those fees to go straight to other clubs that have payments due from Portsmouth at the end of January.
Feb 2-3: All Portsmouth staff and players belatedly paid for January.
Feb 4: Chainrai becomes fourth different owner of the season, taking the 90 per cent stake that was held by Al-Faraj.
Feb 9: Talks with Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs break down as fears grow for Portsmouth’s future as a football club.
Feb 10: High Court give the club one week to draw up a statement of its financial affairs as it bids to avoid the HMRC winding-up order.
Feb 17: Portsmouth present statement of financial affairs at High Court.
Feb 18: The club confirm they have asked the Premier League for permission to sell players outside the transfer window.
Feb 20: Bid to trade outside the transfer window rejected by the Premier League.
Feb 21: Storrie reveals a South African consortium is pursuing a deal to buy the cash-strapped club.
Feb 22: Former owner Al Fahim quits as non-executive chairman at Fratton Park and passes on his 10 per cent shareholding to the club’s supporters’ trust.
Feb 23: Chainrai confirms Portsmouth will go into administration if they have not found a new buyer by Feb 26. Earlier, New Zealand-based businessman Victor Cattermole admits his interest in buying Portsmouth, but says a deal will not be in place before the club’s date at the High Court on March 1.
Feb 25: The club’s owner’s spokesman confirms Portsmouth have started the process of going into administration.
Feb 26: Portsmouth confirm they have gone into administration.
March 1: HMRC challenge the voluntary administration process.
March 6: A 2-0 home win over Birmingham in the FA Cup quarter-finals relieves the pressure at Fratton Park.
March 10: Administrator Andrew Andronikou confirms 85 of the club’s employees have been made redundant but that he is receiving «enquiries on a daily basis» regarding a takeover.
March 12: Storrie steps down as chief executive, but continues to work for the club as a consultant.
March 16: HMRC officially drops its challenge over Portsmouth’s move into administration.
March 17: The Premier League confirm Portsmouth have been deducted nine points with immediate effect for going into administration.
April 10: Relegation to the Championship confirmed as West Ham beat Sunderland.
April 11: Portsmouth reach the FA Cup final with a 2-0 victory over Tottenham after extra-time in a semi-final at Wembley.
May 15: Beaten 1-0 by Chelsea in the FA Cup final at Wembley.
May 20: Manager Grant resigns following the end of the season.
June 1: New chief executive David Lampitt takes up his role.
Jun 17: Tax officials insist the club still owe £37m in unpaid bills to HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC).
Jun 18: Steve Cotterill signs a three-year deal to become the club’s new manager.
Jul 15: HMRC lodge papers in the High Court to appeal the Company Voluntary Agreement with Portsmouth, which could prevent the club exiting administration.
Aug 5: HMRC lose their case in the High Court and say they do not intend to appeal, clearing Portsmouth to begin the Championship season at Coventry on Saturday.
Aug 7: Season starts with a 2-0 defeat.
Sept 24: Pompey beat Leicester 6-1 at Fratton Park to register their first league win of the campaign.
Oct 19: A fourth win in five Championship games – the other was a draw – moves Pompey to within five points of the play-off places after 12 matches.
Oct 22: Portsmouth issue a statement claiming «it appears likely that the club will now be closed down and liquidated» by the administrators as they are unable to support the continued trading of the club.
Oct 24: The Football League agree Portsmouth’s exit from administration on the condition that owner Chainrai cannot take any capital out of the club until all of the creditors are repaid.
Oct 29: Portsmouth confirm the appointment of Chainrai as the club’s new chairman.
Dec 16: Portsmouth manager Cotterill’s selection problems hindered further as club can’t afford salaries of Richard Hughes and Michael Brown.
June 1, 2011: Portsmouth have another set of new owners after Convers Sports Initiatives, controlled by London-based Russian businessman Vladimir Antonov, confirm they had bought the Fratton Park outfit following approval by the Football League.
Oct 14: Cotterill leaves Portsmouth to become Nottingham Forest’s new manager.
Nov 10: Pompey confirm Michael Appleton has signed a three-and-a-half-year deal to become their new manager.
Nov 23: A Europe-wide arrest warrant his issued in Lithuania for Antonov, the joint owner of Portsmouth, for alleged forgery.
Nov 29: CSI, the company that bought Portsmouth in June, goes into administration following the arrest of its main shareholder, Antonov.
Jan 24, 2012: Portsmouth issued with a winding-up petition by HM Revenue and Customs over an unpaid tax bill of £1.6million.
Feb 13: Portsmouth apply to go into administration for the second time in two years and face incurring a 10-point deduction from the Football League.
Feb 17: Portsmouth are separated from relegation by goal difference alone after the stricken Championship club suffer an automatic 10-point penalty for collapsing into administration under the weight of a £2m tax debt.
Feb 22: Cash-strapped club forced to make «a number of redundancies» to help aid their battle for financial survival.
March 1: Portsmouth administrator Trevor Birch reveals club may not be able to complete the Championship season. Birch says Pompey will not receive parachute payments from the Premier League as they will go straight to former owner Gaydamak.
March 6: Portsmouth lose 1-0 to Reading at the Madejski Stadium and drop to the bottom of the Championship table for the first time.
April 11: Portsmouth’s administrators PFK report the club has debts of £58m, which includes £3.5m to players and £2.3m to HMRC.
April 21: A 2-1 home defeat to Derby County confirms Portsmouth’s relegation from the Championship.
May 18: Portpin – former owner Balram Chainrai’s company – makes a 2p-in-the-pound offer to take ownership of the club.
June 22: The club’s Supporters Trust submits a counterbid to Portpin’s offer.
June 25: Portsmouth’s creditors vote to accept Mr Chainrai’s company voluntary arrangement proposal to take control of the club.
Jul 12: The Football League says it will accept Portsmouth’s entry into League One for the 2012-13 season on the condition the club agrees to start the season with another 10-point deduction.
Jul 24: Administrator Trevor Birch announces that unless all senior players leave the club by August 10 the club will have no option to close.
Jul 27: Greg Halford becomes the first senior player to leave Fratton Park since Mr Birch’s annonucement.
Aug 9: Portsmouth’s highest wage-earner, Israeli defender Tal Ben Haim, reaches a compromise deal with Portsmouth over his wages and leaves the club, just a day before Birch’s deadline.
Aug 14: Pompey play their first competitive match of the 2012-13 season, losing 3-0 at Plymouth in the League Cup. Michael Appleton’s side are forced to field nine teenagers in their line-up.
Aug 15: Balram Chainrai reportedly withdraws his bid to take over the club, criciticising Trevor Birch.
September: Pompey earn their first win in League One. Former Watford owner Laurence Bassini submits formal offer for the club. Former owner Sulaiman Al Fahim also confirms interest.
October: The PST is named ‘preferred bidder’ for the club. Appleton is linked to jobs at Burnley and Bolton.
November: Appleton leaves Portsmouth for Blackpool shortly before his one-year anniversary.
December: A High Court hearing to determine the future of Pompey and force the sale of Fratton Park is adjourned.
January: Staff at the club are forced to take a further pay cut while the Football League confirm the club will face a 10-point penalty when they exit administration. The latest court case is adjourned.
February: Keith Harris makes a late bid for the club but his offer for Pompey is rejected by the Football League