Gunners blitz adds to Pompey troubles

PORTSMOUTH’S season hit rock bottom after Avram Grant’s side responded to the news that the club’s financial crisis has taken a significant turn for the worse with an embarrassing capitulation against an under-worked Arsenal side against the background of an increasingly venomous atmosphere at Fratton Park.

Two up at half time, Arsene Wenger’s side hardly had to work for the victory that moved them to within four points of leaders Chelsea with a game in hand.

For Portsmouth manager Avram Grant, though, the mood was considerably bleaker as chants of ‘where’s all our money gone’ ‘sack the board’ and more forthright comments directed at the club’s Saudi Arabian owner confirmed this is a club in trouble.