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What qualifications does one need to work in a job centre? Sounds like they need to make it a better paid job to raise the quality of people working there...

@Lord_Palmerston: #Pompey staff meeting today. Think it's the usual one to comply with employment law, wait and see if Birch turns up. Anybody from PST going?

Probably nothing new in this but 'for the record'... http://www1.skysports.com/football/news/11677/8388275/Aston-Villa-have-made-an-enquiry-for-Inter-Milan-winger-Philippe-Coutinho

@BBCSport: BREAKING: Blackpool reject Championship rivals Blackburn's approach for manager Michael Appleton #bfc #brfc #bbcfootball

@Peston: China annualised export growth of 132% in Dec & whopping $32bn trade surplus. Hopes of rebalancing & fears of hard landing both overdone

But look on the bright side....99% don't despise you... #everycloud

Source?

Fixed it for you sir. No need to thank me - my services are free of charge.

Meanwhile, in this weeks episode of Pompey spin... http://m.portsmouth.co.uk/sport/pompey/pompey-boss-demands-characters-as-he-seeks-to-end-winless-streak-1-4663319

Seeing as only 6 Saintswebbers have thus far dismissed this Daily Mail article out of hand it might be more pertinent to ask them individually. One assumes the other 99% of Saintswebbers are more ambivalent to the musings of this particular journal... Edit: just seen another one....make that 7 in total

http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/sport/saints/news/10152683.Saints_centre_half_Jose_Fonte_facing_major_injury_crisis/?ref=twt

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/danhodges/100197305/once-again-labour-is-sticking-its-head-in-the-sand-and-hoping-the-welfare-debate-goes-away/

The American debating technique...shout loudly and often... [video=youtube_share;AtyKofFih8Y]http://youtu.be/AtyKofFih8Y

Funny old world... BBC Sport ‏@BBCSport Blackburn Rovers have made an official approach to Blackpool for their manager Michael Appleton. @OneRovers statement:http://www.rovers.co.uk/news/article/blackburn-rovers-statement-588897.aspx …

Hush now....it's against forum thought police rules to reflect on where we were 3 years ago...

That's another question I asked Mr Allen on today's webchat but no response (one assumes he's forgotten all about that £2m as well....very easy to forget about these 7 figure sums of cash down Pompey way...)

Have some kind of legally binding pre-contract agreement maybe? A bit like a house where you go through two phases of purchase..... exchange of contracts and then completion Actually, the solution is to get rid of the daft transfer windows in the first place...

Don;t we get through that number of pages in a couple of months these days....?

A day after the court case collapsed....ties in... So, the administrators of Miland Development 2004 Ltd sold the land direct to Tesco rather than Robinson? Wouldn't there be something on Land Registry to confirm the details? There's nothing on Companies House for Miland Development to confirm an asset has been sold.

@Milanello: Sky reports that Milan are ready to offer €8.5m for @DavideAstori. Cagliari's president, Cellino, wants at least €15m. @Milanello: The pact that Milan and Cagliari made for Astori was only valid if Milan wanted to buy him back within a year after he was sold. [sky].

Can I ask an Alpine-esque question? Why don't the clubs do all this fart arsing around negotiation stuff BEFORE the window starts and then just rubber stamp things in the window itself? Isn't that a win-win for all parties?

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What is it about Italian football and selling/buying percentages of a player? Here's another one... AC Milan News ‏@Milanello Empoli's SD: "If it's true that Milan have signed 50% of @rickysaponara for €4m? Yes, those are the figures." #BenvenutoSaponara AC Milan News ‏@Milanello Empoli's SD: "We have an agreement with Parma, so we'll sell the other 50% of Saponara to Parma at the end of the season." (edit: apologies to wander off topic but this whole co-ownership malarkey sounds bonkers to me)

Funnily enough I said the same thing to my son walking back to the station after the game. Happy to be proven wrong but I don't think Rickie scores many goals running onto fast through balls?