Chairman may be next to quit Pompey

PORTSMOUTH chairman Milan Mandaric has cast doubt over his own future at Fratton Park after fans’ hostile reaction to manager Harry Redknapp’s departure.

Although Redknapp insists the decision to resign was his alone, there has been speculation the former West Ham manager was so upset with former Panathinaikos director of football Velimir Zajec being recruited at the south coast club that he felt obliged to walk away from the job.

Computer millionaire Mandaric, who has poured a fortune into the club and is said to be paying his staff a combined e31.5m a year, is angered by such talk and will not disclose any possible replacement for the man who steered Pompey from near the foot of the old first division to midway in the Premiership in just 32 months.