Portsmouth and Hull compete to see who can implode the quickest

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So, while the world loves to focus on the action at the top of the Premiership table, and the perpetual "will they, won't they" of Liverpool winning the league, Tottenham/Villa/Man City breaking the top 4, Arsenal doing something, and Man Utd getting weaker without Ronaldo*, spare a thought for the other end of the table, where the relegation spots are dominated not only by teams seemingly trying to play as poorly as they can, but also be as financially insolvent as is humanly possible. Sandwiching West Ham, and making their "well a bank bought us, but now that bank doesn't have any money" tale of woe look amateur by comparison, are two teams that seem determined to elevate the tale of "doing a Leeds" into an art form:

Bottom of the table, 7 points in 11 games, Portsmouth "whatever happened to that new stadium?" FC:


Meanwhile, not to be outdone, over at the amber lot next to me, one point better off, and ten goals to the worse:

Portsmouth look like the ones in more trouble in the short term, as I doubt Hull will have to worry about wages not getting paid, or the likes, but at the same time, the latter look more screwed in the long run. Players will definitely have to go, and there's no mythical pot of money there to save them.

At the same time though, whilst I won't admit to being that knowledgeable on Pompey's squad, I think City still have a lot of decent players in their team, and even shorn of a few trimmings, potentially have enough talent to stay in the division. It's just a matter of utilising it, and Brown doesn't seem like he'll be the man to do it. The risk is whether there's sense in first paying him off to leave, and then finding someone who can get the best out of what they have, without being able to add much of their own.

So who's going to break first?

*The answer to all of these is "no, they won't", by the way
 
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Nice post, hopefully both will go down. Hull haven't got a chance imo, Pompey have been dire but look a little better in recent weeks. Still hope they go down though.
 
Shamikebab said:
Nice post, hopefully both will go down. Hull haven't got a chance imo, Pompey have been dire but look a little better in recent weeks. Still hope they go down though.
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I hope Portsmouth stay up just for the sake of that tattoo bloke that always turns up to their matches. Who would want to be covered in tattoos of a Championship team? :p

Great post by the way, a good read. :)
 
See, you'd think relegation would be nailed on for them both, with circumstances like that, but at the same time, Blackburn are somehow conspiring to look even worse than either recently, Bolton haven't exactly been great shakes, and none of the promoted sides look chock full of talent, despite their higher placings. A couple of weeks ago Portsmouth looked dead in the water, now they're clawing it back. Who knows.
 
I would say Hull are worse off out of the two. They are managed by Phil "me me me" Brown.
 
Hull are a shambles of a club on and off the pitch.

Pompy are the same, but have a better bunch of players.

Both have been ran in to the ground.

*on a side note, It's funny how the FA just let these shocking things happen, letting anyone take over a football club, and not checking profits / debts of clubs.
 
Pompie have a lot of quality, and millions take time to be transfer and released and sorted out, the ban is a big deal about nothing, long term debts that take more than a few weeks to verify and sort out normally. They have a lot of good new players that are more than good enough, there more goals and quality in the pompie squad than Blackburn and Hull combined.

keep in mind they've been not scoring but not conceding, they've conceded LESS in the league than LIVERPOOL, with blackburn and hull significantly more and the goals aren't coming from anywhere. Pompie have new players who look better every game as the team clicks more and have looked ok for a couple months and now the with goals looking very much like coming out of the relegation zone soon.

AS for Blackburn they have less points at this stage than last year still under Ince, though its possible a couple extra games against the top 6 might make this season harder so far, but still, no big improvements under the useless Fat Sam. Hull and Blackburn are most likely to go down at the moment.
 
Greenlizard0 said:
Hopefully Hull will go down. I detest their hole of a city just because of Phil Brown.
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Up untill he completely went mental the only thing I hated about him was the truly absurd headset mic thing he uses. If he's not Britney Spears in the mid 90's wear something you can't see, or use a sodding phone when needed.

But he gradually got oranger throughout the year, lost his marbles, he did start the year playing attacking fearless football, a few losses panicked him into retarded managerial positions and I think actually caused his brain to implode.

The Arsenal spit thing was just, not just embarassing, it was a complete joke and I still find it ridiculous he wasn't punished. Arsenal provided clear evidence Fabregas was still on the pitch when the spit supposedly occured. Surely Brown should have had all those things thrown at him other managers do, bringing the game into disrepute, unsportsman like conduct, etc, etc, etc.

The talking a woman down off a ledge thing, I still have no idea what that was, did he fake the whole thing? There was rumours that the players who were walking along behind him(he was walking the players around town, which is mad enough) didn't see him talk to anyone, did he make the whole thing up and claim to be a hero?

Methinks he's due for a breakdown soon and a short(or very long) stay in a institution of some kind once he gets fired.

I don't think Hull have nasty players, or purposefully foul more than anyone else, I only really despise Brown since he went nuts. But of everyone this year they really can't stay up. Pompie actually look half decent, even looked in the past few games like a midtable team. Hull never look that good, ever.
 
K1LLSW1TCH said:
I'd love to see a photoshop of Brown with red eyes and steam coming out of his ears. :D
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Surely just watch the final 2 minutes of any Hull game this season?

IF he losses this weekend he has to be out, Curbishly's around, not sure who else would want the job or be thought of as decent enough to stop them going down.
 
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