If Portsmouth go out of business...

[st albans fox]

as its already in administration, the administrators job is to effect the best possible return for the creditors. i suspect that, because of the football rule whereby all the players contracts have to be settled first, the return for the other creditors is nil and therefore Birch may as well keep the club running as long as possible in the hope that a buyer may come along and make an offer which which will generate something for the creditors. if it is liquidated, the return will defo be nowt. a normal business would have been liquidated by now but football clubs are different because someone may buy them through sentiment rather than for a return.

 

[Kingy_85]

Really? I love Leicester and wouldn't ever want to see them go, but if the worse did happen, I'm pretty sure I'd get over it after a short spell of mourning. It's just football at the end of the day. There's far more important things in life. Anyone who really thinks like this needs to start seeing a psychiatrist.

Did you honestly have to take what I said THAT literal?

If City went bust I would NEVER be able to watch a game of football again without feeling sick. Having such an obsession spoiled for me is a pretty heavy thing to take.

I wouldn't just give it a few months and then start supporting Hinckley.

 

[spionfox]

If City went bust I would NEVER be able to watch a game of football again without feeling sick.

Literally?

 

[Kingy_85]

Literally?

This time yes.

 

[Blue Maniac]

If City went bust I would NEVER be able to watch a game of football again without feeling sick. Having such an obsession spoiled for me is a pretty heavy thing to take.

City going to the wall is one of the things that would ensure I walk away from the game for good.

 

[gregs_y2k]

Did you honestly have to take what I said THAT literal?

If City went bust I would NEVER be able to watch a game of football again without feeling sick. Having such an obsession spoiled for me is a pretty heavy thing to take.

I wouldn't just give it a few months and then start supporting Hinckley.

But you wouldn't have to though. Realistically if the club were to fold a new replacement Leicester would be formed at the very lowest level and we'd still have a team to support. They'd have to come up through the leagues again but we'd still have a team in Leicester. Look at AFC Wimbledon and FC Utd of Manchester, very different examples but still applicable. If Pompey were to go out of business, which is looking more and more likely, I'm sure they will go down this route. Perhaps it's even the better option in the long run to start from scratch, rather than desperately trying to stay afloat although I realise that would be a desperately hard sell to any Pompey fan right now.

 

[pork pie fox]

City going to the wall is one of the things that would ensure I walk away from the game for good.

Really? I mean, yes I support Leicester, but feck me in the grand scheme of things football and LCFC are 'would likes', not 'must haves'. I could get over LCFC not existing and still enjoy football but some of the things I've seen in life are beyond getting over and make LCFC as important as a bag of pickled onion monster munch.

 

[Blue Maniac]

Really? I mean, yes I support Leicester, but feck me in the grand scheme of things football and LCFC are 'would likes', not 'must haves'. I could get over LCFC not existing and still enjoy football but some of the things I've seen in life are beyond getting over and make LCFC as important as a bag of pickled onion monster munch.

Yes, really. I'm a City fan first and a football fan second. I couldn't just switch allegiance, certainly not to another Football League / Premier League club. The only option for me would be to follow a team in a country where fans aren't routinely ripped off and treated as a tertiary concern like we are here.

There are a number of Blatteresque ideas that would cause me to stop spending my money in the English game. The closure of the Premier League is one. Penalty shoot outs in league football are another. I could go on but I won't. You'll get bored.

 

[gregs_y2k]

But this is a pretty irrelevant argument. It's not like there wouldn't be a team in Leicester to support. You wouldn't have to go over to Hinckley or Coalville or Oadby Town. A new Leicester would arise from the ashes and although it wouldn't be the same Leicester, it would still have a huge and loyal fan base that would ensure that it would quickly rise through the non leagues and be back into the Football League. A decent sized city like Leicester will always have a football team to follow. No one need slit their wrists or stop following football altogether.

 

[Foxes_Trust]

But you wouldn't have to though. Realistically if the club were to fold a new replacement Leicester would be formed at the very lowest level and we'd still have a team to support. They'd have to come up through the leagues again but we'd still have a team in Leicester. Look at AFC Wimbledon and FC Utd of Manchester, very different examples but still applicable. If Pompey were to go out of business, which is looking more and more likely, I'm sure they will go down this route. Perhaps it's even the better option in the long run to start from scratch, rather than desperately trying to stay afloat although I realise that would be a desperately hard sell to any Pompey fan right now.

The Pompey Trust have detailed plans for different scenarios, and there are some critical timescales to be followed in relation to those plans, only later this year will we know which path from that plan that they have had to follow

 

[H T B]

If City went bust I would NEVER be able to watch a game of football again without feeling sick. Having such an obsession spoiled for me is a pretty heavy thing to take.

I wouldn't just give it a few months and then start supporting Hinckley.

When City were in financial troubles, I was asked who would I support if City went under.
I couldn't support any professional team with the same amount of emotion and passion as I have for my home town team. It would be a local senior team and England. (also more time spent on the banks of the Trent fishing for Barbel)

 

[Blue Maniac]

But this is a pretty irrelevant argument. It's not like there wouldn't be a team in Leicester to support. You wouldn't have to go over to Hinckley or Coalville or Oadby Town. A new Leicester would arise from the ashes and although it wouldn't be the same Leicester, it would still have a huge and loyal fan base that would ensure that it would quickly rise through the non leagues and be back into the Football League. A decent sized city like Leicester will always have a football team to follow.

I think you're missing the point. I wouldn't want to contribute any more money to an industry which is so poorly regulated, and in which massive incompetence at boardroom level is so commonplace, that it has killed my club. A club that is in the Championship, bringing in the level of income that playing in this league guarantees, should never ever be spending more money than it is making. The clubs that are haemorrhaging money are doing so because they're spending shockingly inflated amounts on players who frankly are not worth it. They're doing this out of avarice because the rewards for being in the Premier League are so perversely disproportionate to the actual achievement of reaching it. The game in this country stinks of greed and it sweats giant beads of mediocrity. The moment it kills my club I'm gone.

 

[David Gwilliam]

But this is a pretty irrelevant argument. It's not like there wouldn't be a team in Leicester to support. You wouldn't have to go over to Hinckley or Coalville or Oadby Town. A new Leicester would arise from the ashes and although it wouldn't be the same Leicester, it would still have a huge and loyal fan base that would ensure that it would quickly rise through the non leagues and be back into the Football League. A decent sized city like Leicester will always have a football team to follow. No one need slit their wrists or stop following football altogether.

I am one of the few people on the forum who switched allegience having grown up as a fervent Worcester City fan. It seems to me that if Leicester ever went non-league those people who follow Leicester from afar would find it more difficult. It is very difficult to find out what is happening at your club when it is non-league. I found that I cannot support a team without seeing them play and it took about four months for me to adopt the team of my new city.

A non-league Leicester would no doubt keep some of its support but it would lose the new young fans that are the lifeblood of a big club. My guess is that there would be a rise in status for The Tigers and it could well be that Leicester would become more of a rugby city.

As someone who has an obsession with heritage in its widest sense I would point out that Leicester City (and no doubt Portsmouth)has been an important part of the heritage of many families - fathers taking sons (and increasingly daughters) as they were taken by their fathers. I was aware of the power of this at the last night at Filbert Street when there were a couple of friendly matches and people were in tears. For a city to lose a league football club is very sad and being non-league brings real problems. I hope Portsmouth survives as a league club.

 

[FryattFox]

I am one of the few people on the forum who switched allegience having grown up as a fervent Worcester City fan.

Might not be true. I was a Man Utd fan until I got a LCFC season ticket at the age of 9, from which my allegiance gradually changed.

 

[Motown Fox]

Hey up FF I didnt know you grew up in London.

 

[bocadillo]

Might not be true. I was a Man Utd fan until I got a LCFC season ticket at the age of 9, from which my allegiance gradually changed.

until 1963: Middlesbrough
from 1964: City

 

[FryattFox]

Hey up FF I didnt know you grew up in London.

Close...Warsaw. Only team I'd ever heard of...

 

[Blue Maniac]

Close...Warsaw. Only team I'd ever heard of...

I didn't know Fryatt was a Polish name.

 

[bocadillo]

I didn't know Fryatt was a Polish name.

That's only his TB name. His real name is Mr Sheen.

(The old ones are the bestest)

 

[Redditch Fox]

if the club were to fold a new replacement Leicester would be formed at the very lowest level

It wouldn't actually.

A club which 'replaced' Leicester City would apply to join leagues at the highest level that would accept it.

This means that Beckford and Wellens & co are not likely to be gracing Humberstone Park at any time soon.

More generally, I think we should be more concerned about our financial future than worrying about Pompey. In my opinion the miserable failure on Saturday as the culmination of a season of massive under-achievement will have seriously p-issed off the owners who have only themselves to blame for throwing money at an industry that they don't understand especially spending money on fees/ salaries on a bunch of over paid w-nkers Doesn't look to healthy to me at the KP.