The High Court hearing on the future of Portsmouth Football Club has been adjourned again for seven days until 21 February. It is believed that an issue involving the Professional Footballers’ Association (PFA) is the reason for the latest adjournment.
The behaviour of the PFA was raised by Portsmouth North MP Penny Mordaunt at prime minister’s questions this afternoon, but Dave Cameron was careful not to criticise them directly, confining himself to emphasising the importance of the campaign to save Pompey.
The High Court hearing on the future of Portsmouth Football Club has been adjourned again for seven days until 21 February. It is believed that an issue involving the Professional Footballers’ Association (PFA) is the reason for the latest adjournment.
The behaviour of the PFA was raised by Portsmouth North MP Penny Mordaunt at prime minister’s questions this afternoon, but Dave Cameron was careful not to criticise them directly, confining himself to emphasising the importance of the campaign to save Pompey.
Pompey Supporters’ Trust (PST) spokesman Colin Farmery said that he was hopeful the issue with the PFA could be resolved quickly. He said: ‘We want to work with the PFA and find a way that this can be resolved amicably. The bottom line is that we have been negotiating with PFA for some time now and they have been quite supportive of what we are trying to do.’
PST issued a statement saying that they had now agreed a £1.45m loan with Portsmouth City Council and would be in a position to buy Fratton Park along with their property partner Stuart Robinson. They have about £2.5m in escrow from fan pledges and individual investors and they are confident that that sum will grow substantially once the legal logjam is broken.
There are contingency plans for a phoenix club if it should turn out not to be possible for Portsmouth to retain its Football League membership.