Dr Sulaiman’s Resignation From Fratton Park
Sulaiman Al-Fahim offered his resignation as a director of Portsmouth Football Club in a characteristically farcical fashion. Mark Murphy takes a look at this, and wonders aloud what his motives...
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The Continuing Adventures Of Sulaiman Al-Fahim
According to the News Of The World, Sulaiman Al-Fahim has been sniffing around Portsmouth Football Club again but, as Mark Murphy reports, he has plenty else on his plate as...
Portsmouth Prepare For Their Day In Court
There are nine days until their big day in court, and Portsmouth are acting bullish. As they submit their statement of affairs to the court, though, what are the options...
Lies, Damned Lies & The Words Of The “Official Club Spokesman”
As football sinks further and further into the financial mire, the official statements made by clubs themselves are becoming more and more odd, and more and more telling. Mark Murphy...
The Portsmouth Revolving Door Continues Spinning
"In the future", said Andy Warhol in 1968, "everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes". It is tempting to look at Portsmouth's ownership record over the last year or so...
Another Black Week For Portsmouth
Their website was closed for non-payment, there have been threats of resignation from Peter Storrie & Avram Grant and more protests are planned. Is there any way out of the...
Football & The Media – There’s Something In The Air
The game is starting to smell rotten from the inside out, and this smell is starting to become all-pervasive to the extent that even those that have been trying to...
Match Of The Midweek: Coventry City 1-2 Portsmouth (AET)
Coventry City vs Portsmouth in an FA Cup Third Round Replay tonight, live and exclusive on ITV4 - the full lethargy of the cup brought into sharp focus on a...
Portsmouth And Sacha Gaydamak: Revival Or Revisionism?
Sacha Gaydamak has been giving his side of the story as Portsmouth sink deeper and deeper into the mire, but how reliable are his recollections? Mark Murphy has a look...
HMRC Go For The Jugular, And The Clubs Only Have Themselves To Blame
The cold air that is whistling through football isn't solely as a result of the recent wintry weather. HMRC are on the move, and their aim is to recoup taxpayers'...
A Tussle With The Tax Man
Portsmouth are due in court in February over an unpaid tax bill. The club states that HMRC are being unfair, but is this merely more bluster to cover up the...
Is Portsmouth’s New Owner The Urban Spaceman?
Mark Murphy returns to one of his pet subjects today, and has a few questions to ask about why, with the news that the players' wages weren't paid on time...
Portsmouth Sack Paul Hart, But Who Will Replace Him?
Portsmouth's decision to sack Paul Hart hasn't exactly been a surprise, but the paucity of high calibre names being chosen to replace him betrays their current position. Will they go...
Yes, It’s Sulaiman Al-Fahim Again!
Sulaiman Al-Fahim has been getting out in the press, and a recent interview with a pan-Arab business magazine caused Mark Murphy to get all hot under the collar again. He...
The “Fit & Proper Persons Test” Sting
Mark Murphy thinks that he might have discovered that the recent rash of football club takeovers may be a sting concocted by the News Of The World to show up...
Farewell then, Dr Sulaiman
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss? Sulaiman Al-Fahim overcame his kidney stones just in time to offload Portsmouth Football Club earlier this week, and Mark Murphy has...
Is The Portsmouth Crisis Deepening?
With Peter Storrie openly admitting that the money has run out, the players either getting paid late or not getting paid at all and Sulaiman Al Fahim now having apparently...
The Ongoing Failure Of The Fit & Proper Persons Test
The "Fit & Proper Persons" test is supposed to weed undesirable types out from owning football clubs. Mark Murphy is less than convinced that it is doing its job properly,...
Pompey Play Up
At first glance, Sulaiman Al-Fahim's CV looks pretty impressive. Hold it up to any rigorous analysis, however, and it all starts to look a little more shaky. Mark Murphy is...
A Bad Week For The Sportswear Manufacturers
It never rains but pours for the SFA and the SPL. Having lost a considerable amount of money after the collapse of Setanta Sports earlier this summer, they now stand...