Gold offers Pompey £10m loan

WEST HAM chief David Gold has sensationally offered to lend Portsmouth £10 million to keep them from going bust. However, the Hammers co-chairman insists any loan would have to be underwritten by the Premier League.

“If Portsmouth asked me for £10m, I would lend it to them so long as the Premier League endorsed it and I was repaid on the agreed date,’’ Gold said.

“I am prepared to lend them £10m. The people who caused their problems are no longer there. So you can’t take it out on the people who are left, the major people left are the fans.