West Ham boss Avram Grant appears to be 'dead-man-walking' with constant speculation over when, not if the Israeli will be sacked to make way for Martin O'Neill. Fellow relegation rival and Wolves chief Mick McCarthy feels it is a disgrace the way he is being treated and expected to get on with his job at bottom of the table Hammers: "It can't be fair on him or anyone else."
He added: "Someone rang me before our game and said 'Avram Grant has gone and Martin O'Neill is going in'. I thought's 'that's a surprise on a Saturday morning!'
"Then Avram is at the game. It looks like he is saying goodbye to everyone when throwing the scarf.
"It is just a bizarre situation. It can't be fair on him or the players or anyone else.
"It doesn't help you do your job any better, that's for sure, having to come into press conferences, and answer questions on 'are you losing your job?' and 'who is coming in?"'
McCarthy added: "You try and focus on the job in hand but people chipping away at it makes it hard.
"It is not a position I would like to have. If they don't want you, and they want you to go, then fine, do it.
"I wouldn't want to be answering questions about my future every single time. Someone should be able to stop that.
"Be straight with people, that's all I ask.
"West Ham is a great club, with great supporters, they make a real racket. There will be a queue from here to Aberdeen for the job.
"Don't think people won't want it because it seems something is not right with it at the minute.
"We've all got to have that ego and arrogance that we can make things better at a club and turn it around.
"Avram thinks that at West Ham and it is making his job that much harder with all the speculation surrounding it.
"That is not fair on him."
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