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View Article  Another new owner

Portsmouth FC have their 4th owner in less than a year as Balram Chanrai succeeds All Al-Faraj or Al Mirage as he had been called as he was next to invisible during his term in charge.

Chanrai has taken over as Faraj defaulted on loans made by Chanrai who, by agreement, took over the club instead. What the future holds now is anyones guess as Chanrai has stated he has no interest in owning football club and is seeking to sell it on pretty quick

View Article  New Hard Drive

Got myself a new 2TB hard drive as my old 750GB was getting full.

It's been a pain moving data across.

Trying to use Acronis but as that has installed its own small partition, to use as and restore boot, it insists on either resizing this to take up a large portion of the new disk or I can keep it and main partition the same size and this leaves half the disk unallocated!

It's taking a long time to complete the move and I'm not sure when it,s finished if it will let me allocate the the rest of the unused drive space to the main partition

View Article  Scummers + Takeover

Now facing them over the previous two seasons would have been great, we were a team in the upper Premier full of internationals and they were a team sinking fast.

Now they are turning things around and we are fast approaching oblivion.

Not a game I am looking forward to.

On the other hand there are now more rumours of another takeover, this time from the Irish. Would be nice but don't believe a word of it

 

View Article  Snow

I have never seen snow this bad in Havant before.

Made it to work on time but everyone got sent home at 9.15

View Article  Bottom at Xmas?

Well stats show that the team bottom at Xmas gets relegated, with the exception of West Brom who went the following year instead.

All we need now is a Chelsea win over West Ham to drag ourselves off the bottom after a great win over a shite Liverpool team.

Nice to have a referee who didn't give everything to a "big" club

 

View Article  Paul Hart sacked

After a disastrous start to Portsmouths season, two wins in thirteen, Paul Hart is finally relieved of his position as manager.

Not the ideal circumstances to be i charge of a club with the financial situation and three different owners!

Surprisingly Darren Ferguson is favourite to take over and not Avram Grant. Paul Groves and Ian Woan in temporary control

View Article  Nick Griffin, BNP and the BBC

Whatever your political viewpoint the BBC have certainly shown their true colours in not be the impartial channel they say they are. Has any other political leader had such a biased audience and panel hand picked to attack them? Of course not.

All it seems to have done, once you get past the national papers creaming themselves over it, is raise sympathy for the party instead of alienating people to their cause

 

View Article  Credit Card

Some little shite has cloned my credit card or somehow stolen it's details.

I am now without a card while Mint send me a new one.

They couldn't even use it somewhere glamourous, whos clones a card and goes shopping in WH Smiths!

View Article  New owners, again!

Well it appears Sulaiman Al Fahims ownership of Portmouth maybe the shortest in history as it now looks like he is going to sell a "majority" holder to the Al-Faraj consortium that was put together by Peter Storrie.

Quite why he bought the club in the first place is beyond me when he clearly does not have the money for it

View Article  Worst ever !

Start for a Premiership team.

Six straight defeats, we are surely going down

View Article  CSA!
How can they honestly believe it cost £360 a month to support one child!!
View Article  Decorating

I hate it

Just finished doing my bedroom and now trying to put everything back without making it look a mess again

View Article  Takeover complete

After what has seemingly been the longest takeover saga in football history Portsmouth finally have  a new owner in Mr Sulaiman Al Fahim.

Not convinced he has any real money to boost the team and it sure needs boosting at the moment even more so if we continue with the plan to sell Peter Crouch

View Article  HD and Blu-Ray

Well once again it's time to catch up with modern technology, also called technolust.

Just bought myself a 19" Sony KDL-19L4000 HD TV and Sony BDP-S350 Blu-Ray player, in theory I can convert the player to accept my Region One DVDs as well.

Would have been nice to have a larger TV but 19" is about the biggest I can get in my room

 

 

View Article  Clearout time at Portsmouth

As expected a number of players have gone.

The obvious ones like Jerome Thomas, Djimi Traore, Glen Little and Lauren went. Unfortunately Sean Davis also decided to try his luck elsewhere with Bolton looking to be the most likely destination.

Both Sol Campbell and Hermann Hreidarsson have been offered new contracts and hopefully both will sign as we are desperately short of number for next season

View Article  Portsmouth in new hands

Dr Sulaiman Al-Fahim has been confirmed official as having a bid accepted to buy the club.

He was head of the original group to buy Manchester City so not sure how his involvement in that effects us, will be interesting to see how much money he brings with him. I doubt we will be title challengers

View Article  Anniversary!
It would have been my 21st Wedding Anniversary today, thank fuck I got let out when I did
View Article  First signing!

Before the last season has even ended Portsmouth have made their first signing for next year.

Unfortunately nothing to get over excited about as it's Aaron Mokoena who didn't exactly set the world alight at Blackburn, and he's also another defensive midfielder!

?

Replacing Sean Davis maybe?

View Article  Newcastle relegated!

Probably the best thing that has happened in this otherwise disappointing season.

Far too long have they had a high opinion of themselves and their worship of the so called messiahs Shearer and Keegan is laughable.

Still, a trip to Scunthorpe should be an experience for them

View Article  Korg 03R/W

Well I went shopping for a Korg M1 and somehow managed to buy a Korg 03R/W which I finally got around to connecting up today along with the Roland A-880.

It's not a bad synth, just not sure it adds anything that the MU90R didn't offer me, maybe if I learn how to program some of this gear I may appreciate their value more

View Article  Women
Is it just me or does everyone go on a downer when bumping into ex-gfs?
View Article  Portsmouth 3 v 1 Sunderland

Well at least we finally got a good  result for our last game at home.

Dire first half but an entertaining second one including a cameo from Linvoy Primus

View Article  Poker!

After far too many attempts I finally won at poker, albeit it a split pot and a play-off for the tophy but it still counts.

Pity that the evening was once agained marred by arguments, really don't know why I bother playing sometimes

View Article  The return of ULTRAVOX!

You know the feeling you get when something that was so great in the past turns out to be a disappointment when you see it again?

Well Ultravox were certainly no disappointment, from the opening bars of Astradyne to the encore of The Voice they were absolute perfection.

Must admit I never expected to see them again as a band but well worth the wait, hopefully they will tour again and maybe even some new material.

Well done Midge Ure, Billy Currie, Chris Cross and Warren Cann

View Article  League One

The new home of Southampton Football Club

I shouldn't laugh, but I will

View Article  Southampton Football Club

Not a usual subject for here but yesterday their "Parent Company" went into administration.

At the moment they are trying to escape a points reduction next season by using the argument it's the parent company and not the club itself in administration, how this works when the club is the PLCs only source of income remains to be seen.

Appears the League are meeting to discuss this so Southampton may not escape the penalties, as it stand they will not exist if they cannot find a buyer by the end of summer if not sooner.

I would be laughing if I wasn't worried Portsmouth could be heading the same way in the future, at least I have my Havant shirt

View Article  MIDI Cables

After a lot of work I think I finally have all my MIDI cables routed and working.

Does appear that both the A-880 and the DACS are happy and even the DD-10 seems to be triggering correctly, time will tell

View Article  Portsmouth 0 v 1 Chelsea
Average game, poor result, atrocious weather and and unfortunate meeting with the ex-girlfriend all made for a fairly dismal day out
View Article  AFC Wimbledon

Well done to Havant for holding an impressive Wimbledon side to a 0-0 draw today, still don't look like scoring though!

An attendance of 1700 was very good, officially 800 were from Wimbledon but I would guess they had more than that. An extremely well supported non-league team!

View Article  Bloody MIDI!

Spent most of last weekend rewiring all my gear, both MIDI and audio, and now I'm get odd or no data on MIDI.

Still not 100% sure whats causing it, bypass all the switches and everything works but pass it through the Philip Rees or the DACS and it causes problems. Think it is probably the Philip Rees 5x5 that is causing the problem but not sure which one.

I'm bidding on a Roland A-880 on eBay which, if I win, could replace one, if not both, Philip Rees boxes (even though it was the DACS I was looking to replace

View Article  Adams sacked

Unofficial reports, well every paper, is saying that Tony Adams has been sacked as Portsmouth manager.

Not surprising given the bad form we are in albeit with some improved performances, if not results, in the last few weeks.

Odds on it being either Avram Grant or Alan Curbishley as replacement

View Article  Me and the FA Cup

Well it made an unexpected visit to my place of work today and I managed to get my self photographed with it.

Hopefully a good omen for the team!

View Article  Jermaine Pennant
A bid accepted which would make him out first signing in January but he appears to want to stay at Liverpool, odd considering they don't want him
View Article  Matt Smith - Doctor Who

No a name I know but glad they didn't cast a woman or overly camp actor which I was worried they would

View Article  FA Cup 3rd Round

Well we kicked off the defence of our cup with a garbage display against Britstol City.

At least we didn't lose but another dismal display which does not bode well for the rest of the season, relegation is looking a possibility

View Article  Lassana Diarra leaves

Lassana Diarra seals his move to Real Madrid for a club record fee, whether its the quoted £20M remains to be seen.

Cannot blame him for going in the slightest but a sad loss to Portsmouth