Dismal stuff, frankly. Not Portsmouth’s season to date – well, not entirely, anyway. But the dismissal of their manager Paul Hart, after what really was “the impossible job” of managing the “cash-strapped South Coast outfit” after their lunatic summer.   That Portsmouth had any points whatsoever, let alone the “more points to date” chief executive Peter Storrie reckoned they should have had, was an achievement of some note.

And while Storrie contemplates another court appearance and keeps himself busy on his £1m+ annual salary, he might ask himself whether even managers such as Ferguson, Wenger et al, could have done much better after seeing all bar one of their decent players leave during the summer, and those that stayed paid on a, shall we say, intermittent basis while those running the club off the pitch made seven messes per week of their jobs.

To be fair, Hart’s dismissal was widely celebrated among Pompey fans who had serious reservations about his conservative, sometimes outright negative, tactics. The most common word from fans commenting on local press reports of hart’s sacking was “Yesssssssssssssssssssssss!!!!!!!” – and that’s possibly stinting a little on the letters ‘s.’

Al-Fahim declared: “I was not involved in the decision at all. I’m disappointed with the way the board decided this, I should have been called. As chairman of the club I have an interest in the club and they should have run this by me.”

This only shows how clueless and deluded the man remains. He’s non-executive chairman for two years, a nominal and temporary position, wholly in line with his importance to the club.

And if anyone was worthy of dismissal from Fratton Park this week, it was him.

Portsmouth languish at the bottom of the EPL thanks to his inability to fund a club takeover during the summer and the merry dance he led everyone, including Storrie, with his tales of investment and ambition, all of which were just that….tales.

And Portsmouth are bottom because Al-Fahim’s farcical summer behaviour meant Kevin Prince-Boateng - the man who missed the penalty that lost the match that cost Hart his job - was the limit of their transfer ambitions come deadline day.

Hart can hold his head high, whatever his faults. Al-Fahim, if he ever finds out the meaning of the word, should hold his in shame.