With Paul Hart the first manager sacked in the Premier League this season, Rafa is now 7/1 to be the next gaffer to go. With mixed reports on Avram Grant’s future at Portsmouth bookmakers are taking no chances that the former Chelsea manager might be the next Pompey boss with PaddyPower installing the director of football the 6/4 favourite to be the next permanent manager.

Portsmouth’s insistence that a new man will be installed quickly sees out of work managers Darren Ferguson and Alan Curbishley follow Grant in the football betting at 9/4 and 9/2, respectively whilst former Reading boss Steve Coppell is 9/1 to make the short journey south to Fratton Park.

Darren Haines said: “If Portsmouth want a man quickly they are either going to have to appoint a man from within or look to someone currently out of work. Avram Grant, Darren Ferguson and Curbishley all tick those boxes.”

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