Alexander Litvinenko
All the fans I know agree don't dispute that the club benefited through cheating from its previous owners. But what would you like them to do now - say "Yes, it's a fair cop, guv'nor, we don't deserve to exist any more, we'll just walk away from the club we've supported all our lives"?
The big problems is that the owners who did the damage have now fucked off - so who are you actually punishing? Or did you want the supporters not to cheer or celebrate when their club won things - even if it was with money they shouldn't have had?
I think it's the fact that they went along the same path before the ink was dry on the first CVA that riles a lot of us. No sooner had Chanrai's pet administrator said the days of overspending were gone - minutes after local businesses and UK taxpayers had to accept 20p in the pound - they signed Kitson and Lawrence on 20K per week. In the same league, Reading could barely afford a signing let alone salaries on this scale. Then you factor in the charities that had their money stolen and the never-to-materialise promise from Chainrai to pay all creditors owed 2K or less in full after the first CVA and you get a feeling that this club is almost beyond salvation. Rotten to the core. And isn't this their third admin in 15 years? How many more lives do they deserve?
I don't wish any team to go out of business, but I make an exception for Portsmouth. In any other business, they would have gone or been forced to compete on a level nowhere near the years before admin. For the general good of football, someone needs to be made an example of, and for me at least, Portsmouth's crimes outweigh any tangible benefit to keeping them in the league.
