Plymouth Argyle kept their League One survival hopes alive by beating Dagenham & Redbridge 0 – 1 at Victoria Road and even better news; the Pilgrims are off the bottom of the league table. Plymouth are now upto the heady heights of 23rd and just five points away from survival with four games remaining, still tough going but very possible; two wins out of four can make it happen. But today’s result is the big one as it’s the only game against another relegation threatened team, the next four games are against top 10 teams. Today Rory Patterson was hero of the day scoring the only goal of the game but also managed to get himself sent off near the end of the game for a second bookable offence. It was a fairly even game from what I understand, it could have gone either way but Plymouth had the luck today; which makes a nice change, can I have some more sir?!
Despite the win; there is a down side for Argyle today, actually this news came yesterday; Administrator Brendan Guilfoyle has given creditors an ultimatum; either accept the offer or receive nothing as the club will be put into liquidation by the 6th May; one day before the end of the season for Argyle. The offer would mean that all the unsecured creditors accept 0.77 pence per pound owed. The way I see it; the creditors have no option as if the club is liquidated they will get nothing as profits from liquidation will go to the administrators and the three secured creditors. The club now has debts of £17.7m which includes wages owed to players and staff.
In tech news; it’s not been a good couple of days for Amazon and Sony. Let’s start with Amazon; the giant online retailer’s cloud computing system, EC2 went offline taking many well known websites with it; the network was down for much of the day yesterday. Also Sony’s Playstation Network was down all day yesterday and so far unavailable today meaning millions of Playstation owners are unable to log into their PSN accounts meaning that online play is… well OFFLINE. The former doesn’t really affect me as I don’t use the services hosted on the EC2 network. But not being able to log into PSN is a hassle as I have to login to PSN to access NetFlix; after several attempts to log in and getting the message that it’s down for maintenance after yesterday’s error message, NetFlix finally loads but it’s still annoying and of course Sony are very hush, hush!