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Portsmouth boss Grant rubbishes claims they have duty to Premier League

Submitted by tribalfootball.com on Fri, 03/19/2010 - 03:19

Portsmouth boss Avram Grant rubbished claims they have a duty to field full-strength line-ups to the end of the season, despite already being condemned to relegation.

Grant was visibly furious yesterday after seeing his squad penalised nine points for the club entering administration.

Pompey could do the other sides in the relegation dogfight a huge favour by beating Hull City, who this week replaced manager Phil Brown with Iain Dowie.

Grant, though, insisted: "We do not have a duty to the other teams - the Premier League has a duty to the other teams. We have a duty for Portsmouth.

"We tried everything in the last month to keep what I think the spirit of football is about.

"I do not see any reason why we should not do that even when we do not have a target. If we had given up before, people would not have thought that was good for the Premier League.

"We need to hear what the players think about what we need to do from now on."

Israeli coach Grant, 54, admits he is unchartered territory. The former Chelsea boss said: "For me, it is a new situation.

"It is the first time in the history of the Premier League this has happened, so I cannot use other people's experience - I cannot make a call to [Sir] Alex [Ferguson] or Arsene [Wenger] and say 'what did you do in this situation?' Nobody knows how to deal with it."

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Submitted by pfcjames (not verified) on Fri, 03/19/2010 - 07:56.

Quite right too, the only important game for us in the next month is the FA Cup semi final. Our squad is as thin as it is because of that pathetic transfer embargo that was put on us in the last window. Reserve teams for us :)

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