Pompey get provisional court date

[BBC Sport]

Portsmouth get a provisional date of 1 March for the High Court hearing of their winding-up petition.

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[Ultimate FM Fan]

does this mean they may go bust?

 

[Max]

does this mean they may go bust?

Most probably yes unless we provide the funds we need to give to the tax man, hopefully we can get ANOTHER takeover.

 

[Ultimate FM Fan]

ok thanks for explaining i hope they dont

 

[Zebedee]

Most probably yes unless we provide the funds we need to give to the tax man, hopefully we can get ANOTHER takeover.

Max - any idea why you guys didn't go into administration rather than trying to contest the winding up order? I can understand that it may well have guaranteed relegation, but by not doing it, you're in serious danger of actually being wound up and ceasing to exist. It's either brinkmanship of the most foolhardy sort, or someone's pretty positive of getting their hands on a lot of money very quickly... and judging by the whispers of the request to the EPL to forward parachute money, if that was the money they were counting on, they made a huge boo-boo.