The Daily Echo has revealed that the builders responsible for the shirt in the wall prank at Staplewood have effectively been sacked.

The video of a couple of Pompey fans putting one of their clubs shirts under the dry lining of a wall at Saints training ground at Staplewood has been doing the rounds over the last week, now it seesm that the perpertrators of the prank will be needing to contact Pompey's shirt sponsors Jobsite as its reported that they have been sacked.

Whether they actually have is unclear because they were subcontractors to Leadbitters, the main contractors, so whilst undoubtably they will not be allowed back onto the Staplewood site, its unclear whether Leadbitters have also sacked the parent subcontracting company or have just had different cemployees from them on site now, that being the case whether the two have been sacked completely from the sub contracting company may well stay a secret.

In my opinion though its a mountain being made out of a molehill, if the situations were reversed, Saints supporters would be having a good chuckle at what would be regarded as a great joke, you have to be able to take it as well as give it and I for one dont like to see someone lose their job for something like this, even if it is a Pompey fan.

I dont blame Saints for the action taken, as customers of the builder they have a right to have work carried out professionally and not to find themselves openly mocked on the internet. 

One thing that is not in question though is how silly they were to put the footage up on youtube before they had finished the job, got off site and had been paid, not to mention showing exactly who they were on camera, if they had waited a month or two it would probably have been very difficult to find the shirt and remove it and they would have been very smug, but it seems they put it up too quickly and so the shirt could be found and removed, they could be indeitifies and sacked and now the joke is on them.   

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goalie66 added 10:18 - Jul 17 It well have been a Prank. However, all construction has to comply with very stringent fire regulations. If there is non compliance the owners of the building are liable. That is why they were sacked and not for an excessive reaction to a stupid prank. However, it just about sums up the collective intelligence of some of the supporters from our neighbours in the effluent city having the collective nouse of a brain fart..

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slynch added 10:42 - Jul 17 You are right. It was not the matter of the prank that they were sacked but down to the building regs. This construction was built on solid foundations and designed to remain standing for a long time, the building inspectors advised that experience elsewhere along the South Coast showed that the inclusion of the shirt would compromise the integrity of the wall and although it would stay up for a couple seasons it would gradually collapse. The owners would then be faced with continual outlay in propping it up but eventually it would crumble to the foundations. The continual investment would be undermined by increasingly poor results and eventually the whole ground would be rendered worthless and have to be sold for a pittance to a few locals.

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Jesus_02 added 11:11 - Jul 17 You have to see this from Cortese's the Liebhers and even Leadbitters POV. Builders are not paid to take the p**s out of customers. I dont like to see anyone losse thier job but I'm afraid that the builders have proved themselves to be Darwins rejects here
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TimSaint added 13:06 - Jul 17 All a bit of a laugh really and seem to recall some skates doing similar things during the construction of St Marys. As already posted above, at least we have not crumbled in the same way the "Blue Few" have :o) It is also very fitting that these employees are now using their shirt sponsors !! I also seem to remember that the then Chairman, Milan Mandric, was filmed on South Today or whatever it was called then, laying the first brick of the new Skate Stadium !! Whatever happened to that ?

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LostBoys added 15:30 - Jul 17 How stupid can you be - you keep your back to the phone but you have a name tattooed on your forearm so you can be recognised. If we had the opportunity to get away with it could we be assed to bury a shirt on the PFC pitch. I hesitate to say bury it in a wall as the whole place might fall down.
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Chesham_Saint added 19:29 - Jul 17 I could t cAre less when any Portsmyth fan anywhere gets the sack. If that means one less turd being able to pay on their gate, then it's all upside.
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norbert added 19:35 - Jul 17 The lad, had more or less finished his work, he's a sub-con himself and is now working on another site.
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TheMoog added 20:15 - Jul 17 If he's a subby, rather than on the dry lining contractor's cards, then he's probably on anything up to 90 day payment terms and so could very well have his account docked of the cost of taking the wall down and rebuilding it. Main Contractors can be complete coonts about this sort of thing. Oh well.
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bstokesaint added 06:10 - Jul 19 Definitely a mountain and a molehill story this one. I respect anyone who effectively hides a neighbour's shirt so well. We should be encouraging these people to hide more of these shirts if we can.. and maybe.. if we're really lucky.. one day we won't have to see any of these shirts on our streets again.
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