If the Mersey derby is unlikely to produce much goals, there is almost a certainty that Manchester United will more than make up for it tonight as they host a Portsmouth team all tangled up in a financial crisis. Pompey are in a big and complicated mess but in short they are almost bankrupt and could be put into administration in the near future.
Having had as many changes of owners as wins this season, it’s been the off-the-field activities rather than the football which seem to have dictated Pompey’s fall to the foot of the EPL.
Just this past week alone, the club was taken over by a Hong Kong businessman due to the previous owner’s failure to repay a loan, midfielder Kevin Prince-Boateng found himself in trouble with the law in Berlin for damaging cars while drunk, and manager Avram Grant was exposed by The Sun newspaper in the UK as being the EPL manager who visited a brothel, which was masquerading as a Thai massage parlour, in London a few months ago.