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Portsmouth vs Hull City Match Preview
Portsmouth’s 19 points became 10 midweek when the league officially deducted nine points for the club’s descent into financial administration. Further descent awaits no doubt, as relegation into the league championship is now a near certainty.The points deduction comes on the heels of Pompey’s 4-1 loss away to Liverpool at Anfield last Monday.
Nadir Belhadj scored Portsmouth’s goal in that encounter. Belhadj is now rumored to be a target of Celtic.
Pompey manager Avram Grant has called the league’s deduction of the points “a sad day for football,” and he is surely right. ''A football decision has not been decided on the pitch,” said Grant, “it has been decided in an office somewhere, and that is wrong.”
Grant has promised to meet with the players next so they can decide how best to approach the remainder of their season.
Hull City manager Phil Brown was relieved of duty on Monday.
In an official statement the club thanked Brown for his contributions but stressed that staying in the Premier League was their priority and they felt a managerial change was needed to achieve that.
Midweek Hull announced that Iain Dowie would take the manager’s role in a short-term contract. Dowie is thought not to have been the club’s first choice, but the pressure to put a manager in place for the run in to the end of the season evidently forced the decision-makers to take action, even if it meant compromising their values.
Hull lost 1-2 to Arsenal at the weekend. It was their fourth consecutive loss and they remain second from the bottom.
Dowie’s job is to salvage Premier League status for the Tigers. He admits it’s the biggest challenge of his career.
He’ll have another challenge on his hands too. The altercation last week between Jimmy Bullard and Nick Barmby is bound to sow dissent at some level in the clubhouse and could threaten Hull’s ability to climb out of the relegation zone.
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