Wife: ‘Angry? Avram should be getting a massage every day’

THE wife of beleaguered Portsmouth coach Avram Grant has launched an astonishing defence of his behaviour after he was outed as the Premier League boss who visited a brothel last December.

Tzofit Grant, who is a TV presenter in Israel, insisted she was only concerned that her husband had not been getting enough massages given the pressure he is under at the top-flight’s bottom club – taken over for the fourth time this season yesterday.

Grant was photographed leaving a Thai massage parlour on an industrial unit in Horton Heath, near the Portsmouth training-ground, on December 18. Police sources this week confirmed they were pursuing an active investigation into the brothel, with a view to the prosecution of anyone alleged to be living off immoral earnings.

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