The Hall Right Now blogs of Micah Hall have kept all Pompey fans abreast of what has been going on at their club in their name over the past three years and now the national media are beginning to pick up on the story...
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As Portsmouth football club, founded in 1898, edges towards a takeover by supporters seeking to grasp it as their own, they are starting to look back too, at a bust, broken and bizarre period for their club, as if waking from a nightmare.
The Pompey Supporters' Trust, fans who have devoted oceans of time to the battle for the soul of their club, remain the preferred bidder to buy it out of its second administration, against the intense, furious opposition of Balram Chainrai, a lender of money from Hong Kong. Chainrai – with a mortgage over the club's assets to secure £17m owing to him from loans made at eye-watering rates of interest – is last man standing from Pompey's extraordinary, bloody chronicle of rapidly changing overseas owners. Click here to read the rest of this article
Next to pay hommage to the work of Hall is football365.com's Tom Young.
For a few years now, Fratton Park has been the home to a sort of teeth-gnashing defiance. With little to cheer for, but much to howl against, chants mocking the fit and proper persons test or the club's latest dubious owner have been common. It hasn't been a happy place to spend a Saturday afternoon as the club fluttered down the divisions, losing money and respect from within the game as it went.
On Saturday, there was a different mood for the first time in years. During the victory over Shrewsbury, a new chant ripped through the Fratton end. "...And now you're going to believe us, we're going to run the club." Click here to read the rest of this article
If you haven't yet caught up with the full range of Hall's impressive array of investigative articles click on the links below.
Click here to read why PFC owe Portpin absolutely nothing...
Click here to read why Portpin controlled PFC from October 2009...
Click here to read the inside story of the 'Ali Al Faraj' regime...
Click here to see how 'Ali Al Faraj' tried to take the biscuit with Sacha...
Click here for Part One of our exclusive interview with Andronikou and here to read Part Two
Click here to read questions 1-13 sent to Portpin and their responses, here to read questions 14-23, here to read questions 24-33, here to read questions 34-44, here to read questions 45-54, here to read questions 55-70, here to read questions 71-85 and here to read questions 86-106.
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The Pompey Supporters' Trust is still seeking pledges from Pompey fans to back their bid. Information can be found here