RHST: Does Avram Grant Smile While In the Brothel?

Portsmouth has another owner, their fourth this season. This is starting to get ridiculous. The newest man in charge is Hong Kong businessman Balram Chainrai, who like his three predecessors wants to bring financial stability to the club but has no actual desire to run it. You’d like to think that eventually someone will come along who actually wants to run Portsmouth but I suppose it’s possible that will never happen. Hopefully the Southampton team store will have a discount on jerseys if you trade in your Portsmouth shirt at the time of purchase. With all the problems at Portsmouth, I guess you really can’t blame manager Avram Grant for frequenting a brothel. More interestingly would be if we could find out he if actually smiled while in said brothel. Take a moment from your day and send a positive thought to the poor girl who had to, umm…service Mr. Grant.

Hello Portland! Welcome to the First Division of American Soccer! Thanks to a 4-1 Portland City Council vote yesterday, the renovations plans for PGE Park have been approved and team owner Merritt Paulson was able to finally sign the last of the MLS franchise agreements. With Seattle already in the league and Vancouver joining with Portland in 2011, yesterday’s council vote was a victory for not only the Timbers and their supporters, but a victory for the game in the US. The fantastic Northwest rivalry that was built over the past years in USL will now become part of MLS and hopefully provide an example for fans across the country of what real football derbies look like. Nothing says awesome like an animated tifo of a giant lumberjack taking a chainsaw to the Space Needle.

There are great football related stories and there are GREAT football related stories. Thanks to Ollie Irish over at Who Ate All The Pies, we can enjoy one of those GREAT stories. I give you “Drunken Irishman urinated on french bread in protest of Henry handball”

Quote of the Week

The phrase, “you should have done this in the first place” comes to mind…

“We’ve met with developers and land owners and we’ve commissioned a fresh look at Goodison Park with a highly recommended architect” -Everton chief executive Robert Elstone