Duncan Barkes

Absurd.

Completely absurd.

But, I suppose, in some corners of journalism, that's what you want.

A little bit of nonsense.

I hope you've recognised in listening to Pompey Sound as you do, faithfully, dear listener, that is not something we indulge in.

It's an excellent piece and it comes highly recommended by Pompey Sound.

He's a professional.

The piece is beautifully crafted, it's measured, it's intelligent and there is a revelation in it.

which was mentioned just now by our voice for Andrew, and that is that there was one aspect of the transfer activity was acrimonious, which we hadn't spotted, had you?

It turns out that Moon believes that the Lang saga was turned acrimonious.

There was some bad blood.

And one can only speculate as to what that might be.

Later on in the piece, and I strongly recommend you go to BBC Solent's website and read it in full, he talks about the possibility that Lange might have to turn round and come back down the M6.

as though his heart was so set on a move back home for him that he'd more or less done it, and he was just waiting for the ink to dry on various pieces of paper, metaphorically speaking.

And he was possibly miffed that Pompey kept holding out and holding out and holding out for a bigger fee, which is what you do.

What did he expect Pompey would go?

Oh, you want to go?

Oh, OK, we'll charge him seven and six.

No, business is business.

Football is business.