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@Ryandickson23: Also thanks to Southampton a great club with great people that im extremely proud to have been apart of #saintsfc

@officialsaints: Defender @Ryandickson23 has joined Bradford City on loan until the end of the season http://t.co/aNf4guMP #saintsfc

Sky News Newsdesk ‏@SkyNewsBreak Administrators PwC says camera retail chain Jessops is to close all 187 stores with a loss of 1,370 jobs after entering administration Failing high street retailer goes into administration....and there's a move to liquidate within days... Failing football club goes into administration (for the 2nd time in 3 years)....and a year later it's still on life support....

Only 238 hapless souls fell for the parody retweet request then.....

Neil Allen ‏@NeilAllenPN If this message gets retweeted 100 times, I'll donate another £200 to the#Pompey Trust. Neil Allen ‏@NeilAllenPN Fellow syndicate members at the News now say THEY will also double their #Pompey pledges, if this gets 1K retweets. Neil Allen ‏@pn_neil_allen So sweet fans from down the road have created a parody account of me to prove they're not obsessed with #Pompey. RT this message 100 times.. Alex Burrows ‏@Alexb19 Why are people re-tweeting a fake Neil Allen....this is the real one >@pn_neil_allen Who Runs My Club ‏@whorunsmyclub Cant afford £200, but to compensate for silly spoof of @pn_neil_allen's account, which i fell for I will donate £100 to Trust for 100 RT's!

This is the best illustration yet of the hypocrisy and ignorance that penetrates every recess of their recent history

Oh well, one less stick to beat them with...

You'll need handkerchiefs at the ready for this one... [video=youtube_share;K85Le6Ocn1M] Edit: just watched it....he's basically saying "The club was overspending and we were fools to be taken in by it....but we'll still celebrate and cherish the success we achieved during that period"

Just a thought.....Anyone hazard a guess at how much profit or loss there is in producing a glossy 68 page matchday programme? Given they're in administration and that their average matchday attendance isn't much above 10k it wouldn't surprise me if they're making a loss on this sort of thing... http://www.portsmouthfc.co.uk/LatestNews/news/Eastwood-No-Excuses-4048.aspx

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/20983919 An I reading that correctly? Swindon have recalled Benson because Pompey couldn't / wouldn't pay his wages?

Cheers for that info - appreciated. Doesn't appear to tally with what Appy's dad told him though?

@BroadcastMoose: Norwich /Celtic fans - I said today a deal was close - not happening today - need to be a bit patient

This one?

^This

I think Adkins will start with Rodriguez on the left instead of Guly. Just a hunch.

Neil Allen ‏@NeilAllenPN I want to use the #packthepark hashtag again. Remember those wonderful, pie-in-the-sky days when we thought the Trust was serious?#Pompey

This is quite interesting (if you're a nerd like me) http://oxfordinternetinstitute.github.com/football-mapping/#southampton

Anyone else wondering why there's been no publicity about the outcome of the creditors' meeting earlier in the week? Whilst it was badged as a 'private' meeting one of the members of the committee is there to represent the hundreds (thousands?) of small creditors. If I was one of those creditors I'd be somewhat miffed that my rep at the meeting hasn't communicated the agenda of the meeting and what the outcome was. You can't represent a group of people if you don't communicate with said group of people.

@solentsport: #pompey striker Paul Benson's loan spell will not be extended beyond next week by parent club Swindon

Joe Michalczuk ‏@joemichalczuk Right I'm not getting drawn into one long argument regarding the latest 'statement of fact' from Mike Hall. Joe Michalczuk ‏@joemichalczuk @pn_neil_allen @PompeyCal @blueballoo2000 Specifically? "PKF put forward Portpin and were told they were unlikely to pass the test..." Joe Michalczuk ‏@joemichalczuk @pn_neil_allen @PompeyCal @blueballoo2000 and "The reason they have not been told they failed is because they were not invited to apply. " Joe Michalczuk ‏@joemichalczuk I asked the FL if those two statments were true - and they denied it - so all I've done is ask the question, don't shoot messenger Joe Michalczuk ‏@joemichalczuk Some Pompey fans are amazing - accept all sorts as fact via blind faith - and question a national journalist who asked a simple question Joe Michalczuk ‏@joemichalczuk Put it this way as someone who has worked for ITN and now Sky News for the last 6 years - I don't doubt or question my credentials Joe Michalczuk ‏@joemichalczuk If you wish to throw all sorts of nonsense at me - then so be it - I asked the question, some of you didn't like the answer, no probs!

Devil's advocate question: why would Chainrai want to buy a company (aka Football Club) that he's banned from operating as said company (i.e. FL won't give him the golden share)?

I think the suspicion is that Birch needs to be seen to be doing and saying the right things (from a cost cutting perspective) ahead of the court session next week

@pn_neil_allen: #Pompey Academy cuts on their way. But PKF consideration to reduce age groups has been shelved. http://t.co/iMdpUlT3