sky - are we about to be docked six points?

[vbr]

That table is fucking bollocks, hope Portsmouth don't get liquidated, win both our games in hand and we're only level on points with Liverpool? That's absolute shite.

 

[Andouble]

Sheikh will just cut them a check before they take our top 4 spot

 

[MCFC BOB]

Mansour should give them some money.

 

[Mattyc55]

Its ok people, if our 6 points are at risk, the sheiks will just buy Pompey ;)

 

[rickmcfc]

Its ok people, if our 6 points are at risk, the sheiks will just buy Pompey ;)

great idea but under "fit and proper persons test" introduced by the FA you can only own 1 premier league club. What i think we should do, its come to an agreement with pompey that we got for example, benjani and ben hiam very cheap and really we should have payed lots more, then hand over £20m or something???

 

[allan harper]

Being Portsmouth you think they'd be able to drum up a bit of Financial investment.

 

[marco]

arsenal will beat liverpool tonight and we will beat liverpool later this month 6pts ''gone for them''

 

[Jim Tolmie's Underpants]

arsenal will beat liverpool tonight and we will beat liverpool later this month 6pts ''gone for them''

But we's still be 6 points worse off.

 

[cibaman]

Think that's the main thing in our favour. Utd and Arsenal have both took 6 points off 'em, and the PL aren't gonna want to upset the drunk and Wenger.

If Pompey do go into liquidation there is absolutely no chance that the PL will change the rules no matter what City, Utd or Arsenal might threaten to do. If they did they would face an immediate legal challenge from those clubs that lose out, and that challenge would be almost 100% certain to succeed. The Courts take a very dim view of organisations that change their rules retrospectively in a way that favours some members over others. The rules are very clear and have been in place all season. Even the most fervent United supporting judge is not going to allow them to be changed retrospectively.

The restated league tables look bad for City but probably paint a gloomier picture than reality. Given Pompeys current state, its hard to see Liverpool or Spurs not winning their outstanding home fixtures. Hence we'd probably end up 3 points worse off than Liverpool, bad but not as bad as the restated tables appear.

 

[Blue Train]

Think that's the main thing in our favour. Utd and Arsenal have both took 6 points off 'em, and the PL aren't gonna want to upset the drunk and Wenger.

If Pompey do go into liquidation there is absolutely no chance that the PL will change the rules no matter what City, Utd or Arsenal might threaten to do. If they did they would face an immediate legal challenge from those clubs that lose out, and that challenge would be almost 100% certain to succeed. The Courts take a very dim view of organisations that change their rules retrospectively in a way that favours some members over others. The rules are very clear and have been in place all season. Even the most fervent United supporting judge is not going to allow them to be changed retrospectively.

The restated league tables look bad for City but probably paint a gloomier picture than reality. Given Pompeys current state, its hard to see Liverpool or Spurs not winning their outstanding home fixtures. Hence we'd probably end up 3 points worse off than Liverpool, bad but not as bad as the restated tables appear.

Isn't this exactly what UEFA did to ensure glamour teams like France and Portugal qualified for the World Cup?

And it's not just the 6 points we'd lose. Liverpool and Spurs are also playing one less game than us.