The story so far...........and most of it true!
Allegedly............
Once upon a time there was a man called Deacon. Having sucessfully ensured that Pompey's stay in the ( then ) first division was for only one season he wisley called it a day and sold PFC to Jim Gregory for £3 million. Jim Gregory was a well liked Chairman having just come from QPR and being the owner of a number of Companies including Blue Star Garages and the bodybuilders for Royce-Rolls ( worth roughly £10 million ). A few managers, an FA Cup semi-final and missing automatic promotion by a single point later and Jim become seriously ill and his son, Martin Gregory ( aka G* ), took over the reigns. G* had a bright idea!...
"Lets get rid of that manager bloke Smith ( Jim Smith, now at Derby ) and bring in one of Daddy's mates. Daddy will be pleased!"
So, out went Jim Smith and in came Terry Fenwick ( aka Fuckwit, Baswick or bastard ). You might remember Fuckwit, he was the England defender that let Maradona mince passed him to score Argentinas second goal in the Mexico World Cup.
G* had another bright idea ( hey 2 in a lifetime! )....
"Lets sell some players and make some money from this. Daddy will be pleased!"
So Darren "Shaggy" Anderton went to Spurs, John "Skin 'em" Beresford went to Newcastle, Guy "Corporal Punishment" Whittingham went to Villa, Lee Bradbury went to Man. ( Div 2 ) City, Deon Burton and Darryl Powell joined Jim Smith at Derby.
and Pompey suffered, slumping to the bottom of the first division. Another of Daddys mates was bought into the club, hailed as a messire Terry Venables, fresh from Euro 'success' apparently brought the club for £1!!!!!! Things breifly improved with Pompey reach the dizzy heights of mid-table but it was a temporary state of affairs. As results suffered the crowd wanted someones head. But as long as Veg was in charge there was no way Fuckwit would go. Then it came to pass that, because G* had mortgaged the club to support Blue Star ( remember it was worth £10 million not that long ago ) Veg couldn't have his shares. So G* gave Veg a large payoff and told him to Piss Off ( not the last time he would use that phase ). So Veg went to Palace, and not long after Fuckwit followed him. G* claimed that he had had a master stroke and Alan Ball was bought in. Ball tuned it around and Pompey avoided relagation on the last day of the season with a 3-1 away win at Bradford ( Cheers Boys!! ). As it turned out, a life long Pompey fan, born and bred, called Brain Howe had been in touch with Ballie and Ballie said that he would walk to Pompey for the job. Brian, lead singer with pop band Bad Company, had made his money in the states, along with friend multi-millionaire property developer Vince Wolanin, put an offer together to buy the debt-ridden club from G*. G* turned it down. At first people were cautious of Brain and Vince, having been let down by other bidders to buy the club ( Warren Smith etc. ) but Brian was soon sending mails to the Pompey Anoraks ( the Internet Supporters ) and Vince sponsored the Anoraks football team - Atheltico Portsmouth ( who recently beat the Scummers 2-0 and recently trashed the CyberScum ) and his and Vinces intendtions showed through.
Talks followed and it looked as if things would go through, until G* had another idea and pulled out. Another improved offer was faxed to G* but he returned it with his epitaph scrawled all over it - "Piss Off" Reports were coming through that the club was in deep financial shit. A new stand had been built ( officially known as the KJC Stand but for ever referred to as the Fratton End ) partly paid for by the Football Trust and players had been brought in. More reports came in that Pompey hadn't paid hotel bills, ground improvement bills and even catering bills. Then the builders of the Fratton End, Try Build Ltd., threatened to take Pompey to court for the £250,000 they were still owed. Installments of transfer fees for John Aloisi and Steve Claridge hadn't been paid. The Club had to ask the FA to pay the players wages and the Inland Revenue wanted £500,000 . Increasingly the Anti-G* campaign started to gain momentum.
Latest details are that Pompey is £5 MILLION in debt and the entire squad are up for sale at really knock down prices. G*s latest idea was to state that he didn't care if Pompey ended up in the Conference with houses built on Fratton Park. It is rumoured that Aloisi has been sold to Charlton for £800,000 when he has been valued at £2 Million The players have in the main refused to be sold and Ballie will not have anything to do with it so what does G* do? Sell up and get out with what he can? No, he appoints a third party called Arhole somebody ( or should that be Arsehole ?) and gives him the opportunity to become the second most hated man in Portsmouth by arranging the transfer of players. On Sunday 13 December 1998 Pompey played Grimsby at Fratton live on Sky. The Sky cameras have always been unlucky for Pompey and the result this time was no different with Grmsby winning 1-0. But the news will be focused on the actions of 2000 or so Popmey fans. At half time the fans gathered around the side of the pitch chanting "Gregory Out". It was easy to see what was coming and it started with JAPFCW making a single charge onto the pitch. He didn't get far before being tackled by a steward or two, but that set the rest off. A 5 minute demo was staged in the centre circle but the crowd returned to the stands and the second half and the game continued. At full time again a lone supporter made it to the centre spot and from the Fratton End and North Terrace fans made their way to the tunnel outside the Directors box. The noisy demo latest about 35 minutes until Alan BAll spoke to them cleverly stearing clear of the politics and stating that the team would turn things round.
15 December 1998
Things are really starting to move.
Tomorrow night ( 16/12/98 ) there is to be a meeting at the Liberal Club, Landport, Portsmouth ( park in the Bridge Centre car-park - the club is on the roundabout ) Starts at 1930hrs first 400 get in!
There is increasing talk of boycotting the home games starting with the Oxford game on the 28th. Details to appear in the press etc. If you do decide to go to the game then PLEASE do not buy programmes, merchandice, food etc. If possible pay with forged notes!!!!!!!
JAPFCW has been indefinatly banned from Fratton Park for his role in the halftime pitch invasion.
And finally for today...
Mrs G* ( Florrie ) apparantly phoned FP during the Grimsby game asking why her son so getting so much abuse! She, apparently didn't have a clue was is going on at Fratton and ended up in tears when told.
Remember: IT COULD BE YOUR CLUB NEXT!