It's outrageous you can buy a Premiership football club one day and sell it the next. Should have to sign up to some mininum period of ownership

Portsmouth will only go into administration if there is some cash to keep them going. This doesn't seem to be the case. If the club cease to trade/ play, then the points won against them will be lost.

Which is our worst case. We lose 6 points, Liverpool lose 0.
Got to wait a week to find out.

They only need a couple of mil. We need to give them the money to survive. Doubt it will come to that though. The Prem league cannot afford the fallout of a club ceasing to exist mid season.

The Premier League have a responsibility in making sure that the owners of the club are up to the job and can fulfil their obligations. It is only a matter of time before a big club goes belly up.

Chelsea were on the verge before Roman stepped in. It could have been us when we were owned by Frank.

Nex time it could be Liverpool or the rags.

Doesn't change the fact that the FA won't let this happen. The rags will lose 6 points and Chelsea only 3. You think Ferguson will let his cronies at the FA take points off them and potentially cost them the title? I don't.

How can they stop it? The winding up order is out of their hands. Other clubs can't have a whip around because for them either and why should they get a hand out from the FA or the Prem? They've been given enough help to date so bollocks to them.

And their fans are twats.

And bollocks to our Champions league place? Fuck that. Keep em alive until the end of the season and then fuck them off.

We can expect a team or two to go this way every season from now on.

I hope the rags are next in line.

Happens in the eircom league all the time.

As a supporter of a team that have been in administration twice in recent years, I'd be shocked to see Portsmouth get wound up. The players wages are presumably the largest issue in regards to the club seeing out the season - the PFA has a fund set aside for when clubs aren't paying the players, so that should cover that issue (whether the players get the full amount is a different matter). The administrators will go in and basically lay off everyone who isn't 'necessary' in the functioning of the club. A date will be set (probably in the summer) as to when a new buyer has to be found - a last-minute buyer will probably buy the club paying only one pence in the pound or something like that. Portsmouth will be deducted ten points, all the players will leave in the summer and they'll end up around about where Southampton are now.

As for the Wimbledon scenario - they didn't exactly fold. They just became Franchise FC and so the majority of the remaining Wimbledon fans went to support AFC Wimbledon instead of the club that the majority of lower league clubs despise.

9 day stay of execution in court to get something sorted.

If the premier League or FA cough up for them then they have to do it for everyone

Plastic

I can't describe how depressed this has made me thinking about it, I don't really care about portsmouth as a club but man, imagine how bad you wold feel if one day you woke up and City just weren't there. Like you couldn't just support someone else (except darlo, 'cause he already does) and your whole view on football is gone forever. I can't bare to think of this. I'm suddenly very aware the arabs could fuck off once we've won the CL and leave us with rediculous wages to pay and thus the same thing occurs. Scary.